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From the
WellesleyWire, 5/16/03
Included in this issue are the following:
Wellesley Receives $10 Million Gift for Humanities Center
Two Seniors
Win Prestigious Watson Fellowships
Wellesley Launches
Web Forum Partnership
WELLESLEY RECEIVES $10 MILLION GIFT FOR HUMANITIES CENTER
Donald and Susan
Marley Newhouse '55 have pledged $10 million to create and name a
humanities center at Wellesley, one of the academic priorities of The
Wellesley Campaign. Half of the gift will be used for capital
construction and equipment for the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for
the Humanities and half will endow faculty salaries and academic program
support. The gift will permanently endow a visiting associate professor
of creative writing and a director for the Center and will create
endowment support for faculty programming and administrative costs
associated with the Center. The capital portion of the gift enables the
College to launch the planning process for the most suitable location
and architectural design for the center.
"This very
generous gift from two ardent Wellesley supporters -- both of whom love
writing, words, art, architecture, and all things beautiful -- makes it
possible for us to move forward with the planning and design for what
will be a new and vibrant academic space," said President Diana Chapman
Walsh.
To read more
about the Humanities Center and other initiatives being supported
through The Wellesley Campaign, visit:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Resources/
TWO SENIORS WIN
PRESTIGIOUS WATSON FELLOWSHIPS
Wellesley College
seniors Jennifer Carlile of Edgewood, Washington, and Suzanne Slezak of
Free Union, Virginia, are two of 48 U.S. college students who have been
awarded 2003-2004 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for independent research
while traveling outside the United States. Nearly 1,000 students
applied for the award, which includes a stipend of $22,000. With their
selection, 43 Wellesley students have been named Watson Fellows since
1981 when the College became a participating institution in the program.
Carlile will
travel to the Netherlands, Italy and Austria to work with several groups
on her project, "Multimedia Technology in Experimental Theater and
Performance Art." "I'll be doing everything from writing code for
computer graphics to writing music to be included in monthly concerts,"
explained Carlile. Slezak's project is entitled "Spinning Around the
World: Exploring Hand Spinning with Natural Fibers." She will learn
spinning techniques in Guatemala, Ireland, India, Thailand and New
Zealand and will study the historical, socio-economic, and gendered
perspectives of spinning.
To learn more
about these remarkable Wellesley women, click on:
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/040203.html
WELLESLEY LAUNCHES
WEB FORUM PARTNERSHIP
Do you ever wish
you could sit in on one more lecture by a Wellesley College faculty
member? The opportunity is here. Through Wellesley's new partnership
with WGBH, Boston's public television network, anyone with an Internet
connection and free software now can enjoy some of the College's many
academic events.
Wellesley is one
of about 20 of the area's leading cultural and educational organizations
that is making some of its lectures available online to the public, in
both video and audio, via the WGBH Forum Network. The College's first
offering is a recent lecture-recital by Triple Helix, a piano trio who
are Wellesley's artists-in-residence, and Professor of English Larry
Rosenwald. "Charles Ives and the Spirit of Transcendentalist New
England" is a performance by Triple Helix of Ives' Second Violin Sonata
with intermittent and lively discussion of the composer and his piano
trio.
In the coming
months, the College will add more offerings to the Forum Network,
including several faculty lectures from Reunion. Stay tuned for "Escape
to the Middle Ages: Why Tolkien? Why Now?" by Katherine Lynch, English;
"Games We Play- An Introduction to Game Theory" by Sue Skeath,
Economics; and "Dwelling and Seeking: Two Pathways to Successful Aging"
by Paul Wink, Psychology.
To hear and watch
Wellesley's debut on the WGBH Forum Network, visit:
http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/ - click on "Wellesley College" in the left column
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