GOOD LUCK WITH FINALS!
lsbrown
Prizes and Awards Recipients in the Class of 2013 — Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following first-year students for their academic and leadership accomplishments!
Katherine Marcus 2013 — Ayres Prize: The gift of Daniel Ayres, Class of 1842, to the first-year student who attains the highest academic standing in the first semester.
James Gardner 2013 — Blankenagel Prize: From the John C. Blankenagel Fund, established in 1970, awarded at the discretion of the Department of German studies to enrich educational offerings in the area of humanistic studies, or to assist a superior student in completing a project in German studies.
Miriam Kwietniewska 2013 — Chadbourne Prize: The gift of George Storrs Chadbourne, Class of 1858, to that member of the first-year class outstanding in character, conduct, and scholarship.
Rebecca Coven 2013, Piers Gelly 2013, Shelley Miller 2013, Marina Reza 2013, Benjamin Soloway 2013 — Cole Prize: Established through the gift of George Henry Walker, Class of 1981, in the memory of Charles Edward Cole. Awarded to the first-year student who shows the greatest ability in fiction or nonfiction writing.
Chuqiao Dong 2013, Scott Greene 2013 — CRC Award: Awarded to an outstanding first-year chemistry student, based on grades in organic chemistry over the interval of the current academic year.
Joseph O’Donnell 2013 — First-Year Leadership Award: Awarded to a first-year student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership or involvement in the Wesleyan community.
Alexa Chiappetta 2013, Hyunjin Cho 2013, Valerie Eldridge 2013 — Susan Frazer Prize: Awarded annually to the student (or students) who has done the most distinguished work in the elementary and intermediate French language sequence.
Guy Geyer 2013, Huitao Zhu 2013 — Johnston Prize: The gift of David George Downey, Class of 1884, in memory of Professor John Johnston. Awarded to those first-year students or sophomores whose performance in their first two semesters of physics shows exceptional promise.
Chen-chi Chien 2013, Azra Horowitz 2013, Naixi Wang 2013 — Sherman Prize―Math: Established by David Sherman, D.D., Class of 1872. Two prizes awarded annually, one for excellence in first-year mathematics and the other for excellence in classics.
Classes….
HAPPY LAST DAY OF CLASSES!
BE ORGANIZED AND STUDY WELL DURING READING WEEK!
DON’T HESITATE TO CONTACT ME WITH QUESTIONS OR CONCERN
DEAN BROWN, x2762, lsbrown@wesleyan.edu
Symposium: Green Energy and Biofuel Technology — May 7
The 35th Peter A. Leermakers’ Symposium will be held on May 7, 2010 at Wesleyan University. This years’ symposium, entitled Green Energy and Biofuel Technology, will feature an outstanding program of talks from leaders in government, industry and academia. For more information, refer to the symposium web page.
Advice to the 2014’ers: What do you wish you had known?
What do you wish you had known as you were starting your first semester at Wesleyan? What do you wish you had done differently? What changes have you made? What did you do to make your first semester (and second, for that matter) a successful one? In other words, what advice can you give the incoming members of the Class of 2014 as they anticipate their first semester at Wesleyan? With your first year of college nearly done, you are uniquely qualified to suggest the steps that the new ‘14’ers should take for a successful semester, so let’s hear ’em!
Send your suggestions and advice–brief or lengthy–to me at lsbrown@wesleyan.edu. Woo hoo!
Celebrating Students 2013: SALD Awards to 2013’ers!
The Student Activities and Leadership Development Awards recognize students’ contributions to the Wesleyan community across a variety of activities.
CONGRATULATIONS to the following first-year recipients!
Student Organization of the Year Award “recognizes a student organization that has excelled in sustaining leadership, an active membership and programmatic efforts that contribute to the larger Wesleyan Community.”
2013 Class Council
members (l to r): Michael Zazzaro, Gladys Sosa, Patrick Chiarawongse, Rebecca Coven, Katie Schad, Lan Chi Le, Lily Kaplan, Ural Grant, Leah Koenig, Bing Wu Not Present: Emily Berman, Sydney Hausman-Cohen, Adam Rashkoff, Vivianne Swerdlow, Lily Voravong
First-year Student Leadership Award is ”presented to a student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership or involvement in the Wesleyan community.”
Joseph O’Donnell
Mosaic Award “recognizes the contribution(s) of a student organization that has raised campus awareness through educational initiatives on issues of identity, culture and social justice.”
Wesleyan Students for Disability Rights–Lucas San Juan, a first-year member
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!
Coffee with the Writing Fellows: Tips for Finals 4/29
Feeling Weighed Down By Finals?
We Can Help.
Come have coffee with the Ford Fellows Thursday April 29th at 8 p.m. in the Shapiro Creative Writing Center Lounge (3rd floor of Allbritton)
The Ford Fellows will offer tips on how to get started on your papers and who you can turn to for help. We will discuss the fundamentals of paper writing, and ways to be a better writer than you were in high school. Take this opportunity to ask about final papers and in-class writing exams.
“The Person You Think You Know: Signs and Solutions of Campus Violence” 4/27 6 p.m.
Almost half of college students have experienced abuse in a relationship, according to a 2008 study. Abuse can range from cyber- stalking to beatings and rape.
On April 27, Wesleyan University, The Hartford Courant and FOX CT will present a Key Issues Forum titled “The Person You Think You Know: Signs and Solutions of Campus Violence” at 6 p.m. in Beckham Hall. The forum will feature experts who will discuss relationship violence on campuses, including how to recognize danger signs and where to get help.
The panelists are:
Claire Potter, professor of American studies, professor of history, whose research interest includes the study of violence against women.
Jaclyn Friedman ‘93, who is a performer and co-editor of “Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape.”
Connie J. Kirkland, director of sexual assault services at George Mason University in Virginia and a national expert on campus stalking.
Janet Peckinpaugh, a 30-year broadcast journalist with her own media marketing firm who has been a victim of stalking and domestic violence.
Laurie Perez, reporter, FOX CT will moderate the event.
“Violence – stalking, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and hazing –among young people is a problem in the United States, and to that extent, we have to assume that it is a campus problem to some degree,” Potter says. “ In addition, according to the Department of Justice, women in particular are most likely to be the object of violence between the ages of 16 and 24; hence, you might even argue that we on college campuses are at the epicenter of something we could affect and intervene in. What seems to me most relevant, however, is that administrators and faculty always want to be in the position of anticipating challenges proactively, rather than responding to incidents of violence on campus and assessing, after the fact, what we might have done to help someone who has already been harmed.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Hartford Courant and FOX CT, and presented in partnership with Wesleyan University. It is free and open to the public. Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to register by e-mail at corpaffairs@courant.com or by calling 860-241-3614.