|
|
wellesley
celebrates its wealth of faculty
scholarship
Wellesley
will present a Celebration of Faculty Scholarship
Tuesday, April 23, from 4:15-6 pm in the Library Lecture
Room, highlighting publications, professional works and
accomplishments of its faculty, faculty emeritae/i and
researchers at the Wellesley Centers for Women. The
submissions include faculty work from late 2000 to March
2002.
"The celebration includes a catalogue of faculty
scholarship, offering the chance for the entire community
to recognize the variety of scholarly, creative and
professional achievements," said Andrew Shennan,
associate dean of the college.
The catalogue focuses on faculty and their
accomplishments from A to Z. It begins with Marjorie
Agosin, Spanish, listing three publications: Women,
Gender and Human Rights (Rutgers Press 2001 Anthology),
Angels of Memory (Wings Press 2001 Poetry) and Invisible
Dreamers (Sherman Asher Press 2002 Essays). It concludes
with Eve Zimmerman, Japanese, and her contribution,
"Nakagami Kenji," in editor Jay Rubin's Modern Japanese
Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001). The notable
faculty accomplishments are as varied as the professors
who produce them, from the New England premieres of two
plays by Nora Hussey, theatre, to the U.S. patent for
"System and Method for Parallel Error Diffusion
Dithering" by inventor Panagiotis Takis Metaxas, computer
science, to forthcoming books, such as political science
professor Elizabeth DeSombre's The Global Environment and
World Politics: International Relations in the 21st
Century (Continuum Publishing Group, May 2002).
For more information, call x3583.
wellesley
alumna wins pulitzer prize for her book
Alumna
Diane McWhorter '74 has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for
her book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the
Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (Simon
& Schuster, 2001).
Part history, part investigative journalism and part
personal memoir, the book chronicles 1963, "The Year of
Birmingham, " which has been described as one of the most
cataclysmic periods in America's long civil-rights
struggle. Called "a powerful memoir and an absorbing
history" by The Boston Globe, the book weaves together
the history and leadership of the civil-rights movement
with the collusion among those in the city opposed to
desegregation: the city's politicians, Birmingham's white
elite (McWhorter's family among them) and the Klansmen
who carried out the "dirty work" with the tacit, and
sometimes explicit, approval of the ruling class.
A long-time contributor to The New York Times and op-ed
writer for USA Today, McWhorter also has written articles
about race, politics and culture for Harper's, The
Nation, The New Republic, Newsday, People, Talk, The Wall
Street Journal, The Washington Post and other
publications.
Carry Me Home is McWhorter's first book.
the
new class of 2006
In
late March, the Board of Admissions mailed 1299
acceptance letters to prospective members of the class of
2006, including students from 44 countries and 49 states
(all but South Dakota) plus the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The admitted students
have until May 1 to let the college know if they will
enroll.
To help students make their decisions, the Admissions
Office has held three online chats with admitted
students. Approximately 300 students from more than a
dozen countries participated in the two-hour chats with
current Wellesley students and admissions staff members,
who described the conversations as "fast-paced,
spontaneous and lots of fun." In mid-April, 700 admitted
students and their parents attended Spring Open Campus,
an annual event that helps students make their final
decision.
trustees
approve budget, plans and funding
At
its April 12 meeting the Board of Trustees approved the
college's budget for next year and approved plans and
funding for the renovation of the main level of Clapp
Library.
The trustees approved the $169.7 million operating and
capital budget for the next fiscal year. The trustees
were informed about the staffing review process underway.
The board also approved the major maintenance projects to
be completed during FY '03.
The library renovation is the final piece of its 1995
master plan. The $7 million project will renovate the
entry level, including the main reference area and the
1916 reading room, and upgrade furnishings and mechanical
and electrical systems.
Funding for the project will come from donations from
individuals and foundations, the Clapp Library operating
budget and the issuance of a bond by the Massachusetts
Health and Education Financing Authority. The board's
approval allows the project to move to the detailed
design phase with construction scheduled to begin later
this summer and completion estimated for next spring.
In other business, the trustees re-elected Victoria
Herget '73 to another term as chair of the board and
re-elected Edward Lawrence to his position as vice chair.
Retiring trustee Kathryn Wasserman Davis '24 was named
Trustee Emerita for her outstanding service to the
college in her role as trustee from 1984 to
2002.
two
win fulbright teaching
assistantships
Seniors
Grace Kim and Margaret Y. Lee have been awarded the J.
William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Institute of
International Education's English Teaching Assistantship
to South Korea. The assistantship is a 13-month program
from July 2002-2003.
"I
will be spending approximately 20 hours per week
teaching, and I hope to spend some time doing research on
the Korean colonial experience," Kim said.
The Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual
understanding between people of the United States and
those of other countries.
Kim,
majoring in history and international relations, has been
an academic peer tutor and Freeman house president. Last
summer, as a New York City Government Scholar, she worked
for the New York City Mayor's Office of Emergency
Management as a member of the bioterrorism task force.
After her Fulbright experience, she plans to attend law
school to study international law.
Lee,
who is double majoring in history and political science,
has served as a student liaison to the Committee on
Faculty Appointments. A staff member of the campus humor
magazine, she also has been elected to the Pi Sigma Alpha
political science honors society.
colleagues
in the news
mary
lefkowitz,
classical studies, has written a review of The Mind of
Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharoahs by
Jan Assman, noting that "anyone who reads the book will
come away with a deeper appreciation of what it meant to
be an ancient Egyptian, and will regard with respect what
at first might have seemed merely irrational or
incomprehensible." The piece, titled "Life, Culture in
Ancient Egypt: When Men Could Be Gods," appeared in The
Washington Times. Lefkowitz is the author of Not Out of
Africa and co-editor of Black Athena
Revisited.
stephen
marini,
religion, was a guest on National Public Radio's Talk of
the Nation on a program analyzing "Escapism and
Anonymity." The segment examined people who make dramatic
changes in their lives as a way of reinventing
themselves. Marini offered perspectives on how this
phenomenon is particularly characteristic of Americans.
"It's a wonderful thing to listen to this because you get
these distant echoes of very, very deep structures in the
American experience," he commented after hearing some
personal stories. "This goes back, of course, to the
immigrant experience that virtually all Americans, except
Native Americans, have." The program can be accessed in
Talk of the Nation story archives at
www.npr.org/programs/totn/.
Tuskegee's
Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, edited by
susan
reverby,
women's studies, was featured at an
"author-meets-critics" session at the Eastern
Sociological Society's 2002 annual meeting in Boston.
Reverby responded to critics Ronald Taylor of the
University of Connecticut, Doris Wilkinson of the
University of Kentucky and Cynthia Wilson of Tuskegee
University.
calendar
monday
april 22
earth
day.
administrative
council meeting.
11 am-12 pm, Academic Council Room.
japan
table.
12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court small dining room. Info:
x3226.
volunteer
opportunity.
Natick Community Organic Farm. 2:30 pm, meet at Founders
Lot. Sponsor: WAVE. Info: x4591.
lecture.
"Literature and the Modern African Consciousness." Godwin
Kwadwo Osei Nyame, University of London. 4:15-6 pm, FND
120. Sponsor: Africana Studies. Info: x2563.
lecture.
"The Nanny Question in Feminism." Joan Tronto, political
science, Hunter College. 4:30 pm, Library Lecture Room.
Sponsor: French House; Women's Studies. Info: x2538.
english
tutoring.
5:30-8 pm, PLTC. Info: x2480.
discussion.
Students on being a Muslim woman. 6:30 pm, PNE 239.
Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x7021.
lecture.
"The Last Tortilla and Other Stories." Sergio Troncoso. 7
pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: Mezcla. Info: x4166.
songs.
Performed by Ani Choying, Tibetan nun and activist. 8 pm,
Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info:
x2793.
reading.
Earth Day-oriented literature celebrates the natural
world. 9 pm, Cafe Hoop. Sponsor: Literature Club, WAVE.
Info: x4591.
tuesday
april 23
cws
workshop.
"Career Conversations for Seniors." 12:30-1:20 pm, GRH
330. Info: x2352.
reading.
Janet
Sternburg on her memoir Phantom Limb. 4:15 pm, SCI 277.
Sponsors: Writing, Women's Studies. Info: x2576.
bible
study.
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 4:15-5:15 pm, Little
Chapel. Info: x2655.
law
career panel.
4:15 pm, FND 106. Sponsor: English. Info: x2591.
faculty scholarship. 4:15-6 pm, Library Lecture Room.
(See story, page 1.) Info: x3583.
cws
workshop.
"Internships/Networking." Alumnae from business, art,
science, humanities. 7-9 pm, Cazenove. Info: x2352.
wednesday
april 24
discussion.
"Disability Awareness 101: An Introduction to Language,
Myths and Stereotypes." 12-1:30 pm, FND 207. Sponsor:
Disability Services. Info and RSVP: x2434.
cws
workshop. "Summer
Jobs/Internships." 12:30-1:20 pm, GRH 330. Info:
x2352.
italian
table.
12:30 pm, Tower Court dining room. Info: x1072.
sustaining
prayer.
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 12:30-1 pm, Little
Chapel. Info: x2655.
discussion.
Nancy Kolodny on "A Life in Two Cultures: Science and
Judaism." 1 pm, Stone-Davis. Sponsor: Phi Sigma. Info:
x4043.
workshop.
"Advanced Web Pages for Students: Integrating
Fireworks& Dreamweaver." 4-5:30 pm, Clapp PC
Classroom. Info: x3175.
lecture.
"The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism."
David Kertzer, Brown University. 4:15 pm, Collins Cinema.
Sponsor: Italian Studies, Jewish Studies. Info:
x2616.
lecture.
"The Viking Origins of the Medieval Russian State: Old
Debates and New Perspectives." Nikolai Igorevich Petrov,
archaeology, St. Petersburg University. 4:30 pm, PNW 212.
Sponsor: History. Info: x2605.
films.
The Tale of Genji: The Izu Dancer, 4:50 and 7:30 pm, FND
207. My Neighbor Tottoro, 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Japanese;
English subtitles. Info: x3226.
cws
discussion.
"Life After Wellesley College." Includes "How to Find an
Apartment" and "Understanding Retirement Now." 6-9 pm,
Pendleton Atrium. Info: x2352.
german
table.
7:10-8 pm, Beebe Dining Hall. Info: x2584.
praise and worship. Protestant Christian Chaplaincy.
7:15-8:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x2655.
lecture.
"Madres de la Plaza de Mayo-Linea Fundadora." Nora
Cortinas. 8 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Mezcla. Info:
x4166.
thursday
april 25
wcw
brown-bag seminar.
"Gender at Play: School-Age Children at Recess." Ellen
Boyle, Nancy Marshall and Wendy Wagner Robeson. 12:30 pm,
Cheever House. Info: x2500.
lecture.
"The Color of Reason." Emmanual Eze, philosophy, De Paul
University. 12:30 pm, FND 317. Pizza too. Info:
x2620.
cws
brown-bag lunch.
For Davis Scholars. 12:30-1:20 pm, Billings 100. Info:
x2352.
chinese
table.
12:30-1:30 pm, Stone Davis living room. Info: x2188.
french
table.
12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court small dining room. Info:
x1004.
lacrosse.
NEWMAC quarterfinals. Time TBA,Keohane Sports Center.
Info: x2900.
lecture.
"Roadside Culture and American Frontiers in the 1930s
through 1950s." Christine Kitzmiller '02. 4:30 pm,
Chandler Gallery. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
workshop.
"Spirituality and the Professions. " 4:30 pm, Billings
206. Sponsor: Newman Catholic Community. Info: x2688
cws
information meeting.
On stipends. 4:30-6:30 pm, Location TBA. Info: x2352.
catholic
mass.
4:45 pm, Newman Common Room, lower level, Houghton
Memorial Chapel. Info: x2480.
discussion.
"Current Issues in the Catholic Church and Society." 5:30
pm, Library Seminar Room 3. Sponsor: Newman Catholic
Community. Info: x2688.
english
tutoring.
(See 4/22 listing.)
lecture.
"The Image of Muslim Women in the American Media." Mariam
Arena. 7 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat.
Info: x7021.
films.
Ferngully, 7 pm, and Soylent Green, 9 pm, PNE TV room.
Sponsor: WAVE. Info: x4591.
concert.
Body
and Soul Jazz ensemble. 7 pm, Beebe. Sponsor: Music.
Info: x2028.
film.
Mujeres
al borde de un ataque de nervios. Spanish; English
subtitles. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: DMCC. Info:
x2051.
unitarian
universalist community gathering.
6:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484.
friday
april 26
arbor
day.
Campus event: Carry trash you create in a plastic bag to
raise awareness about waste production. Info: x4591.
deadline.
Submissions due at noon for English Department poetry and
prose essay contest. Info: x2591.
deadline.
Submissions due by noon for Mayling Soong Essay Contest;
see Carolyn Morley, PNW 319. Sponsor: Japanese. Info:
x3226.
films.
Mulholland
Drive, 7 pm, and Monsters Inc., 9 pm, Collins Cinema.
Sponsor: Film Society. Info: smirza1@wellesley.edu.
concert.
"Life and Death: Baroque Music for Birthdays and
Funerals." Collegium Musicum. 7-9:30 pm, Towne Gallery.
Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
saturday
april 27
wesak
day.
Buddhist tradition. Info: x2685.
hooprolling.
9 am. CE House, Tupelo Lane.
waste
audit.
9 am. Sponsor: WAVE. Info: x4591.
lacrosse.
NEWMAC Semifinals. Time TBA, Keohane Sports Center. Info:
x2900.
tennis
vs. Amherst.
Time TBA, Keohane Sports Center. Info: x2900.
performance.
Wellesley College Dancers, "Must See WCD!" 7 pm, Alumnae
Hall. Free with Wellesley ID, $5 others. Info: x8544.
films.
Monsters Inc., 7 pm, and Mulholland Drive, 9 pm, Collins
Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society. Info:
smirza1@wellesley.edu.
sunday
april 28
worship
service.
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 11:15 am-12:15 pm,
Houghton Memorial Chapel. Info: x2655.
lacrosse.
NEWMAC Championships. Keohane Sports Center. Info:
x2900.
performance.
Wellesley College Dancers, "Must See WCD!" 3 pm, Alumnae
Hall. Free with Wellesley ID, $5 others. Info: x8544.
catholic
mass.
4 pm, Houghton Memorial Chapel. Info: x2688.
film/lecture. "After America, After Japan." Regge Life.
(See story, above.) 4:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Info:
mcotto@wellesley.edu.
monday
april 29
japan
table.
(See 4/22 listing.)
lecture.
Latina Month keynote speaker Rebecca Vigil-Giron. 7 pm,
SCI 277. Sponsor: Mezcla. Info: x4166.
buddhist
community gathering. (See
4/22.)
save
the date!
5/1/02:
6th Annual Ruhlman Conference, a celebration of
student achievement. For details and schedule,
go to
www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Ruhlman/home.html.
|
ongoing
exhibit.
Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car. Through June
9, Davis Museum. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
book
sale.
Clapp Library lobby. 50 cents to $2. Inventory updated
monthly. Info: x2894.
don’t
miss...filmmaker looks at how life abroad changes the
traveler
Filmmaker
Regge Life will present his most recent documentary,
"After Ameria, After Japan," Sunday, April 28, at 4:30 pm
in Collins Cinema. The film explores the pleasures and
difficulties of life for Americans and Japanese returning
to their homelands after spending a long time abroad, and
how their world views and personal perspectives changed
as a result.
Life holds a bachelor's degree from Tufts University and
an M.F.A. from New York University School of Arts. While
at Tufts, he enrolled in an overseas theatre arts program
that took him to Nigeria, giving him a taste for travel
and other cultures. He soon developed a special interest
in life in Japan. He is a Daytime Emmy Award-nominated
director for PBS' Sesame Street and the recipient of CINE
Golden Eagle and Sony Innovator awards. Honored by the
Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, he founded the independent
Global Film Network, which provides a forum for
addressing the needs of filmmakers interested in the
international experience. "We tell them where they might
find support for their ideas," said Life, who has just
completed his third season with Sesame Street. Sponsored
by Ethos and the Japan Club, the event is followed by a
dinner reception. For more information, contact
mcotto@wellesley.edu.
Click
Here to View Previous Issue
Return
to the Office of Public Information's
Homepage
Created
by: Shanna Yetman '02 and Moira Sinnott '04
Maintained by: Mary Ann Hill,
Office of Public Information
Last Modified: April 22, 2002
|
