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mona lisa smile begins filming this week on campus Hollywood
comes to Wellesley this week as the campus welcomes the
cast and crew of "Mona Lisa Smile" for six days of
filming, beginning Sunday, Sept. 29. The drama, set
during the 1953-54 academic year, stars Julia Roberts as
an art history professor who comes to Wellesley from
California to teach. She challenges and is challenged by
her "students," played by Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles,
Maggie Gyllenhaal and others. The director is Mike
Newell, whose films include "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
and "Donnie Brasco." The film is scheduled for release by
Revolution Studios next July. wellesley ranks high again on u.s. news survey For
the fifth consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report
has ranked Wellesley fourth among national liberal-arts
colleges. For the past 11 years, Wellesley has placed
among the top five colleges in the annual listing. Organizing events is easier with a new online system that allows users to reserve space, including a calendar for planners to cross check competing events. At an administrative council meeting, Ann Hamilton, registrar; Cindi Voorhees, registrar's office; Anne Manning, library/IS; and Mary Morris, special events, discussed the system. The new model moves from a distributed system driven largely by space with many schedulers having "ownership" of defined spaces to one that is event oriented and presumes space to be an important institutional resource. For curricular events, go to www.wellesley.edu/Registrar/Forms/currform.html. For non-curricular events: www.wellesley.edu/Calendar/Form. Listings: www.wellesley.edu/Calendar. For more information: www.wellesley.edu/EventsMgmt/. wellesley alumna to pilot space shuttle oct. 2 Wellesley's
own Pamela Melroy '83, a U.S. Air Force colonel with
NASA, will pilot the space shuttle Atlantis on an 11-day
mission to launch from the Kennedy Space Center Oct. 2.
The shuttle has a crew of six: Melroy; Jeff Ashby,
commander; and Sandy Magnus, David Wolf, Piers Sellers
and Fyodor Yurchikhin, mission specialists. The goal is
to set the stage for the outward expansion of the
International Space Station. The crew will perform three
spacewalks to install, activate and outfit a truss. Wolf
and Sellers will conduct the spacewalks. donna ng is named new controller Wellesley welcomes a new controller, Donna Ng, who most recently has been budget director at Babson College. A graduate of Boston College, Ng is a certified public accountant and is working on a master's in business administration at Babson. She also has served as director of finance and information systems at Northeast Rehab Health Network. She has a wealth of experience in managing accounting, budgeting and financial analysis, accounts receivable, purchasing/materials and information systems departments. Her appointment was announced by Susan Vogt, vice president, finance, and treasurer, who said, "I look forward to working with Donna, and I hope you will all join me in welcoming her on October 1st." peace corps brings message to campus With 16 volunteers, Wellesley ranks seventh among small colleges and universities in the number of current Peace Corps workers. On Monday, Sept. 30, at 6 pm, the Peace Corps will come to campus to encourage others to learn more about the volunteer opportunities. The information session takes place in Billings 100. Recruiter Suzanne Pouliot, a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Mali from 1996-98, will discuss the application process and answer questions. More than 200 Wellesley graduates have served in the Peace Corps since its inception, with most volunteers serving in Tunisia and Kenya. The service incorporates several goals into an individual's two-year assignment: international development, grassroots projects, travel and adventure. The benefits include paid medical, dental and housing, along with a monthly stipend and 24 vacation days a year. For more information, call 800-424-8580. Faculty members receiving research grants include courtney coile, economics, from the Social Security Administration (SSA), Sandell Grant Program, for "The Effect of Social Security Reform on the Income Security of Older Women"; and sally merry, anthropology, and kathy moon, political science, from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, to participate in a Ford Foundation funded "Boston Consortium Fellows Program in Gender and Security." In addition, Merry recently has been quoted in The Chicago Tribune in a story titled "What will it take to end violence against women?" She mentioned the "dramatic change" in the United States over the past 25 years she has studied the problem of this kind of violence. "Even though it still goes on and may be increasing, there are widespread understandings that it's wrong," she said. "This cultural understanding is much less pervasive in other parts of the world. . .This is a process of education. . .As women get more educated and more ideas about what they have to put up with and what they don't, they begin to think differently." julie norem, psychology, talked about her book, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking: Using 'Defensive Pessimism' to Harness Anxiety and Perform at Your Peak, on WBCN radio program Boston Sunday Review. wilber rich, political science, has been elected to the executive council of the American Political Science Association for a two-year term. laura till, student financial services, has been named president-elect of the Northeast Association of Student Employment Administrators. During her three-year term, she will also serve as president and past president. lecture.
"Dada Masiti," East African Islamic scholar and poet.
Speaker: Mohamed Kassim, African history, Brock
University. 1:30-3 pm, PNW 116. Sponsor: History. Info:
x2603. russian
table.
12:30 pm, FND 417. Tea and conversation. Info: x3549. film.
Elizabeth. Part of Women Who Ruled. 7 pm, Collins Cinema.
Sponsors: DMCC, Film Society. Info: x2051. wcw
luncheon seminar.
"An Ounce of Prevention: Growth-Fostering Relationships
Between Youth and Adults." Speaker: Renee Spencer, Ed.D.
12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Bring lunch; coffee, tea
provided. Info: x2500. isr'a/mi'raj.
Islamic tradition. volleyball.
Wellesley Invitational. 9 am. Sponsor: Athletics. Info:
x2900. worship
service.
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. 11:15 am-12:15 pm,
Houghton Memorial Chapel. Companionship time, 12:30 pm,
Little Chapel. Info: x2655. lecture/tour.
"Paintshop Pond Boardwalk." 2-4:30 pm, Greenhouse
Visitors Center. Speaker: Lisa Standley, environmental
scientist, VHB Inc. Cost: $15 members, $18, non-members.
Sponsor: FOH. Info: x3094. exhibit.
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650.
DMCC. Through Dec. 8. Info: x2051.
don't miss...lecture explores the 'elvis culture' and its aftereffects "Elvis
Culture: Race, Religion and Sex in the 1950s and Beyond"
will be presented by Erika Doss, professor of art,
University of Colorado at Boulder, Tuesday, Oct. 1, at
4:30 pm in Jewett 450. "In that work she discusses the values, culture and inner workings of the Elvis fan world, Elvis's ongoing (undying?) appeal, and the sometimes difficult relationship between the fans and the management of Graceland and Elvis Presley Enterprises," said Alice Friedman, art. "The book was very important and helpful for my own research on race, gender and social mobility in the U.S. in the 1950s." Doss notes, "Elvis Presley's music and biography have been the subject of innumerable books, articles, TV shows and reports, but how he came to be such a popular American icon, and what he meant and continues to mean to his fans, long after his death in 1977, has gone largely unexamined." Her book focuses on Elvis's image in America from rockabilly rebel and B-movie idol to patriotic GI and Las Vegas superstar, explaining how this multifaceted image is key to his enduring popularity. The lecture is sponsored by the Art Department. For more information, call x2042. Click Here to View Previous Issues Return to the Office of Public Information's Homepage Created
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