What's New on the Wellesley CWIS?

Summer 2001

by Anna Koteff '03

General Interest

German Film & Video Festival
In March 2001, Wellesley College will host a four day German Film and Video Festival. Professor Mine Eren and Mellon Intern Natalie Ng '02 created an informative website for participants and potential attendees of this event. The site provides details on the festival's theme, "Women Behind the Camera: Contemporary Filmmakers in Multicultural German," and includes brief clips from nine films, as well as descriptions of screenings, lectures, performances, and panel discussions.

Paintshop Pond
Wonder what all the digging is about around Paintshop Pond? Stop wondering and visit this page. Here, you will find updates on the project, the background and location details of the project, new information about the cleanup, and answers to your questions.

The Wellesley Campaign
Find out the latest information on the Wellesley Campaign. In this new site, you can monitor the Campaign's progress, find out how to contribute to the Campaign, meet the Campaign Team, get your questions answered, and learn about Campaign events that have brought together alumnae, students, and friends of Wellesley College.

Wellesley College Friends of Art
This new page is a great introduction to the Friends of Art, an organization that helps to fund the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Find out what members are currently doing on the Wellesley College campus. Learn about past and present exhibits at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center. Discover how you can join the Wellesley College Friends of Art and support the development of exhibits that come to the Museum.

Academics

Professor David Bernat: The Bible, Ancient Near East, and Early Judaism
Professor David Bernat and Mellon Intern Leslie Chang '04 created a personal home page for Professor Bernat as well as a site for Religion 207, a new course on Goddesses, Queens and Witches in the Ancient Near East. His comprehensive home page includes his mission statement; course offerings; syllabi; study resources for the Bible, the Ancient Near East, and Early Judaism and Rabbinics; and current research. In addition, there is a trivia question for the chance to win a free beverage from El Table.

Chemistry 103 and 306: Chemistry & Art
Professor Margaret Merritt and Mellon Interns Leslie Chang '04 and Jerina Hajno '04 developed a web site for Professor Merritt's "Chemistry and Art " courses. This website includes a syllabus; materials for each of the topics (Photography, Light and Color, Pigments and Painting, Metals: Etching and Corrosion, and Fiber Arts); and an exhibition of works by students from previous semesters, including salted paper prints, cyanotpes, gum dichromate prints, copper works, zinc works, and frescos.

Chemistry 222: Introduction to Biochemistry
Mellon intern Kathy Roche '03 revised and redesigned the Introduction to Biochem course website with Professor Adele Wolfson. In addition to providing students with info on grading policies, lab schedules and the course in general, the site now includes an imagemap with a matching navigation bar on each page and a detailed syllabus with links corresponding to topics such as protein structures, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, and lipids.

Chem Lab Robotic Web Cam
Mellon Interns Sena Tang '03 and Natalie Ng '02 installed and configured a robotic video camera mount on a computer in Professor Chris Arumainayagam's lab. From a web page, he and others can pan, tilt, and center the camera to view the pressure inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber and monitor the status of a turbo molecular pump and other lab equipment remotely.

The Education Department
Working with Professors Barbara Beatty and Ken Hawes, Mellon Interns Nicole Hatch '03 and Kathy Roche '03 substantially revised and expanded the Education Department website. The site now includes detailed information on courses, the faculty, internships, graduate studies, resources, and teacher education.

French 223a: La Chanson Française
Professor James Petterson and Mellon Intern Nora Jarrah '02 revised a web site for this course on French popular song, from postwar existentialist poem-songs to contemporary French rap. Additional songs with lyrics and discussion questions were added . Students' answers to these questions are automatically sent to a FirstClass conference. Note: this site is accessible only to computers on Wellesley's campus and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

German 101-102: Beginning German
Professor Thomas Hansen and Mellon Interns Selena Tang '03 and Nicole Hatch '03 created a web site for Beginning German with a description of the course, the syllabus, and over ten hours of dialogs and audio comprehension exercises that accompany the sixteen chapters of the Neue Horizonte textbook. Note: this site is accessible only to computers on Wellesley's campus and requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

German 231: Comedian Harmonists
Professor Margaret Ward and Mellon Intern Nicole Hatch '03 made many revisions to the Comedian Harmonists web site. They also added more content to the time line area and added a new movie area where students can view clips from the film for dictation exercises.

History of Jazz Project
Mellon Interns Nora Jarrah '02 and Nicole Hatch '03 revised this web site for Professor Jay Panetta's course on jazz history. This site contains audio tracks of pieces to be studied, personnel information about the recordings, the syllabus, and other important class information. To comply with copyright guidelines supported by the Music Library Association, password authentication limits access to students currently enrolled in the course, and the site is completely inaccessible during semesters when the course is not offered. Note: This site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

International Financial Institutions Research Site
Professor Joseph Joyce, with Mellon intern Nora Jarrah '02, revised the site, which lists research material on the international financial institutions with separate listings for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and other multilateral institutions. The site includes basic references, books, monographs, published articles, and recent working papers with links to online versions of the papers (or information on how to obtain them), as well as a separate page listing all new material added since its last revision. In addition, the site provides links to web sites of international financial institutions and related organizations, as well as sites that deal with international economics.

Japanese 101-102: Japanese - the Spoken Language
Mellon Interns Leslie Chang '04 and Jerina Hajno '04 collaborated with Professor Eiko Torii to develop a web site for Japanese 101-102, the introductory class to Japanese Language. The core conversation videos for 14 lessons and the audio drills that go along with each of them reside in this site. Note: This site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later.

Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia
Take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Russia's Lake Baikal with the Wellesley College Russian and Biology departments through this new page. Here you can view photographs from Lake Baikal and the field work students were involved in during the summer program. You can also read about the coursework related to the program and learn exactly where Lake Baikal is located. Start your adventurous journey by visiting this page!

Julie Norem: Defensive Pessimism, Personality Psychology, and Psychology of Gender
Psychology Professor Julie Norem and Mellon Interns Natalie Ng '02 and Leslie Chang '04 created a website on the courses that Professor Norem teaches; her research; and information about her book, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking. A notable feature is a twelve-question quiz that tells users their level of defensive pessimism.

The Psychology Department
Professor Margery Lucas, administrative assistant Sarah Barrett, and Mellon Interns Sena Tang '03 and Kathy Roche '03 redesigned and substantially extended the Psychology Department website. In addition to providing information about courses, the major and minor, and student activities, the site now also includes information on internships, faculty members, and a slideshow of the department's history since its founding in 1891.

Spanish 247: Multiple Meanings of Family in Hispanic Cultures
Professor Lorraine Roses, working with Mellon Intern Jerina Hajno '04, developed a web site for her new course on the institution of the family in the Hispanic world. This site provides information on course syllabus and related topics. It also contains a multimedia section with over twenty photos, as well as four brief interviews in Spanish with faculty, students, and others answering the question "Whom do you think of as your family?" Note: this site requires QuickTime 4.0 or later to be viewed.

Writing 125: Crime and Punishment
Working with Professor Lynne Viti in the Writing Program, Mellon Intern Kathy Roche '03 created a course website for Professor Viti's new fall course, Crime & Punishment. The website includes course information, writing and research resources, and useful links such as pro- and anti-death penalty sites as well as to sites examing the Rosenbergs and Timothy McVeigh. There is also a multimedia section in which students can view brief clips from four movies that will be screened and discussed in class. Note: Due to copyright restrictions, the clips can only be seen by computers on the Wellesley College network. These clips require QuickTime 4.0 or later to be viewed.

Extracurriculars and Student Organizations

Body & Soul
Do you love jazz? Ever wanted to sing with other jazz lovers? Find out about Body & Soul, Wellesley College's vocal jazz ensemble in a new site created by Body & Soul's Director Kris Adams and Mellon Intern Sena Tang '03. This site contains pages such as the ensemble page, a calendar of the group's important events, recommended listening, and a contact page. One of the highlights of the site is a listening section with four short samples from one of Body & Soul's performances.

Sailing and Swimming
Head Swimming and Diving Coach Bonnie Dix and Mellon Intern Natalie Ng '02 teamed up to revise and expand existing websites. The project included a new page on Bonnie's Sailing PE class site about rigging a tech dingy, pages on lessons offered by the Swimming and Diving Team, an online form for prospective students considering joining the team, and a page on the annual alumni meet.

 

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