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From the
WellesleyWire, 12/15/03
Included in this issue are the following:
Senior is Wellesley's 8th Rhodes Scholar
Early Decision Applications Up for Second Consecutive Year
Wellesley Faculty Lectures on the Web
SENIOR IS WELLESLEY'S
8th RHODES SCHOLAR
Senior Heather
Long has been named a Rhodes Scholar, the eighth Wellesley College
student to win the prestigious honor since women were allowed to apply
in 1976.
Long was chosen
through a three-stage process including an endorsement from Wellesley
and selection on a state and regional level. The Rhodes Scholarship
will support two years of study at the University of Oxford with a
possible third year extension. "I am hoping for second B.A. in English
and modern history from Oxford," Long said. "That's a two year program,
and I am hoping to get a third year to get a master's in English. I am
interested in doing cultural studies, particularly in economics and
political analysis of literature." Long is especially gratified by this
honor since reading didn't come easily to her. As a child, she suffered
from learning disabilities and didn't learn to read until fourth or
fifth grade.
You can read more
at:
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/112503.html
EARLY DECISION APPLICATIONS UP FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR
Applications
for admissions via the college's early decision plan have increased
for the second consecutive year. The pool of 218 applicants for the
Class of 2008 was 20 percent larger than last year's applicant pool,
marking the second consecutive year of more than 15 percent increase.
While it is
difficult to point to one particular reason for the increase, Director
of Admissions Jennifer Desjarlais credits her department's increased
outreach efforts, including a revamped viewbook, the expansion of
programs on campus this fall, online chats with prospective students,
and Wellesley's increased media visibility, including a feature story
in the U.S. News & World Report's annual "Best College" guide
and coverage of Mona Lisa Smile, a soon-to-be-released film
starring Julia Roberts as a fictional art history professor at
Wellesley in the mid-1950s.
You can read
more about Wellesley's ranking and feature in US News at:
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/082503.html
WELLESLEY FACULTY
LECTURES ON THE WEB
Do you ever
wish you could sit in on a lecture by a Wellesley College faculty
member? Thanks to a partnership with Boston public broadcaster WGBH,
anyone with an internet connection can listen to and watch a variety
of lectures by Wellesley professors and special guests via computer.
Included among Wellesley's current offerings on the WGBH Forum Network
are "Escape to the Middle Ages: Why Tolkien? Why Now?" by Kathryn
Lynch, English; "Dwelling and Seeking: Two Pathways to Successful
Aging" by Paul Wink, psychology; and "Charles Ives and the Spirit of
Transcendentalist New England," a special lecture-recital by
artists-in-residence Triple Helix and Larry Rosenwald, English.
Bookmark the
WGBH Forum Network site and check regularly for new updates:
http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/forum.php?organization=Wellesley+College
Coming soon are
a reading by the esteemed poet Adrienne Rich and a lecture by Mary
Lefkowitz, classical studies. Both The Washington Post and
The New York Times ran reviews of Lefkowitz's new book on Greek
Gods on December 14. The reviews are online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58314-2003Dec11.html
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/review/14TAPLINT.html
Free
registration required for both.
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