Class of 2011

Want your photography to be the next to hang in the Usdan Center?

Guidelines:

• Eligibility: Open to all students of Wesleyan University; all entries must be original work and created during the last two years
• Submit up to three photographs to Tim Shiner by December 7 or by dropping them off on CD-Rom at 124 Usdan
• Include your name, class year, a title and a description of the photo(s)
• Up to ten photographs will be selected to display. Decisions will be made by December 15
• Selected photographs will be enlarged to 24”x36” (or largest size allowed by resolution of the original) and hung in Usdan common areas for the beginning of the Spring Semester
• At the end of the show, artists will receive their enlarged print as a prize
• Copyright: Wesleyan University reserves the right to publish winning images in Usdan University Center printed materials related to the building
• Entrants must not infringe on the rights of any other photographer or person or submit images that involve the willful harassment of individuals, wildlife or damage to the environment by the photographer

Dear Wesleyan Musical Performers,

In an effort to collaborate and combine programming efforts, a new committee has been established. The Usdan Common Connections Committee is looking to work with musical performers within the Wesleyan Community to provide opportunities to showcase your talents.

These performances will take many different forms and will happen in a variety of venues. We are currently planning a series of Coffee House performances that will feature two or three artists or groups and will likely be held in the Daniel Family Commons on the third floor of Usdan. The committee is also putting together a “Last Waltz”esque jam that will happen on December 14th in the Marketplace Dining wing. This event is tentatively being billed as “Classes Ending on a Good Note”.

Our hope is that throughout the year many different performers or groups will take advantage of the opportunity to let the Usdan Common Connections Committee plan their performance event. If you have ideas for performances or would like to play in either a Coffee House or in the December jam, please contact Michelle Myers-Brown for more details.

If you, or your group, are interested in performing in Usdan at these or other events, please email Michelle Myers-Brown by 11/20/09.

We look forward to hosting performances that showcase the diverse musical styles and the musicians helping to continue the tradition of great music at Wesleyan.

Sincerely,
The Usdan Common Connections Committee

$20,000 Grants for juniors from historically underrepresented groups: African American/Black, Asian, Latino/a, Middle Eastern and Native American who wish to become teachers.

• In exchange for a 2-year Upper School (9-12) teaching commitment after college/university graduation, Hackley would provide the successful candidate with a $5,000 grant towards documented educational expenses remaining from their undergraduate education, such as loans, fees, costs for educational materials during the junior and senior years of college.
• After completing their two year teaching commitment, the Fellows will receive an additional $5,000 per year for two years to support educational purposes in graduate school.

Teaching Support

Application Deadline: January 19, 2010
The Edward E. Ford Foundation has granted Hackley $50,000 (the highest level of support given by the foundation) to help fund an innovative faculty recruitment program designed to identify, create, attract and retain teachers from historically underrepresented groups: African American/Black, Asian, Latino/a, Middle Eastern and Native American. The Hackley community matched the $50,000 with an additional $50,000 for a total of $100,000 dedicated to seven years of this Teaching Fellows program. If you are interested in learning more about the E.E. Ford Foundation and this grant, click here, and click on the tab, “Projects of Interest.”

Friday October 30, 2009

Experiential Shabbat
A Musical Journey for the Soul
6:00pm, World Music Hall, CFA

Ancient Hebrew and new sacred texts (English, Spanish, Aramaic and a twist of Arabic put to original melodies recorded all over Costa Rica, Crete, Sinai, Tel Aviv, NY, CA, Australia) and the planet.

Amen’s (Amir Paiss, Gabriel Meyer Halevy) music serves as spiritual ambassador of a renewed and vibrant spirit of Israel.

Hateva :Skin of God – their second CD – is deep ecology to global sacred beat.

Amen’s up-to-date and intimate version of a multicultural and deeply inclusive Judaism inspires healing, awakening and transformation.

Click here for more information (http://www.myspace.com/amirpaiss).

Pre-Registration for Spring 2010 will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 5.

Last day to withdraw from full semester and second quarter classes is Thursday, November 19.

Think you and your friends got game?????

Well here is your chance to prove it. The Deans Office and The Office of Public Safety are sponsoring a “Midnite Madness” 3-on-3 basketball tournament at the Freeman Athletic Center Fieldhouse on Friday night, November 13.

The tournament will begin at 12:00 midnight. Registration is open to all current students and will be limited to the first 32 teams to sign up by November 7. Teams can consist of three or four players. Awards will be given to the top four teams.

Click here for more information and to register.

Citizens for Quality Sickle Cell Care is a non-profit organization made up of volunteers from Northern Connecticut, parents, families and friends of people living with Sickle Cell Disease, educators, and members of the clergy who are interested in providing quality care and support for children and adults with Sickle Cell Disease and related disorders. Our mission is “to ensure the availability and accessibility of quality and comprehensive medical care and support services for children and adults in Northern Connecticut with Sickle Cell Disease and other related disorders.”

My family got involved with CQSCC after the birth of my brother in 2007 who was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease through the State of Connecticut new born screening program. My involvement really started last year when I organized, as part of Latino Awareness Month, the first annual Sickle Cell Benefit Dinner to raise money for the organization, and then in February organized a free Sickle Cell Trait screening here on campus with the support of CQSCC and UCONN Health Center.

In continuing to bring awareness about Sickle Cell Disease in conjunction with Latin@ Affirmation Month, Ajua Campos- the Latino Students Organization of which I am the co-chair, will be working with CQSCC again to have our 2nd annual Sickle Cell Benefit Dinner on November 18th at 6:00pm in the DFC. This dinner will feature Ziomara Ramos Moquete, treasurer for the board and the mother of a son with Sickle Cell Disease. She will be discussing Sickle Cell and how it has impacted her life and family.

We hope to attract more people to this dinner to learn that Sickle Cell can effect everyone and we can continue slowly break down the misconceptions of the disease.

Tuesday, November 3, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Now that you have found a home in your major, come and talk with faculty members and folks from the CRC and OIS about what happens next.

Dinner will be provided. RSVP to Dean Garrett (ngarrett@wesleyan.edu or x2774) to sign up.

Sponsored by the Deans’ Office and the Office of Residential Life

Tuesday, November 3 in the Chapel at 8:00 p.m.

Four weeks before the nations meet in Copenhagen to try to avert global catastrophe, Mr. Blakemore will identify many often surprising psychological factors at play as people in all walks of life deal with the latest “hard news” on climate.

He’ll explore new definitions of sanity that may pertain, and give examples displaying different “psychologies”, as well as man-made global warming’s place in the long history of narcissistic insults to humanity itself.

Two new time-line graphs of rapid and dangerous climate change will give fresh global context to the psychological challenges and experiences he has observed in the five years since he began focusing on global warming for ABC News.

Computer modelers trying to project the speed and severity of global warming’s advance often say that “the biggest unknown” in their equations is not data about ice or atmosphere, carbon or clouds, but “what the humans will do.” This talk probes that field and many states of mind already engaged.

Sponsored by the Wasch Center, Department of Psychology, and the
Robert Schumann Lecture Series in the Environmental Studies Program

Follow-up discussion on Wed., Nov. 4 at 4:15 p.m. in the Wasch Center