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wellesley seniors win prestigious fellowships Two Wellesley College seniors have been awarded the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2004-2005. The fellowship, with a stipend of $22,000, is a one-year grant for independent study and travel outside the United States.This year, 50 students were selected from among 186 candidates. Catherine Brinkley ’04 won for her project, “Designing the Ark: Zoo Architecture and Its Influence on Conservation.” She will pursue her studies in Madagascar, South Africa and the Ukraine. A Schiff Fellowship recipient, she is majoring in biological sciences and Russian. She has studied in Wellesley’s Lake Baikal program in Siberia and won the Three Generations Prize for writing in the sciences. She plans to attend veterinary school. Anna Kurien ’04 won for her project, “Creole in the Caribbean, Créole dans la Caraïbe.” She will travel to Jamaica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadeloupe in pursuit of her studies. An English and French cultural studies major, she is a United World College Davis scholar and attended the Mahindra United World College of India. She won First Year Distinction and spent a study abroad semester in Senegal and a summer internship at the Hague observing the Milosevic trial. She plans to attend law school. “I intend to study international human rights law and go back to my country, India, and work for 10-15 years before embarking on the international scene,” she said. “I eventually hope to make international human rights law and justice less western-dominated.” The Thomas J. Watson Foundation inaugurated the fellowships in 1968 to give college graduates of unusual promise the freedom to engage in a year of independent study and travel abroad following their graduation. For more information, see www.watsonfellowship.org. marjorie agosín writes new book, cartographies Can travel bring one closer to one’s true heart and home? In Spanish Professor Marjorie Agosín’s new book, Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (University of Georgia Press, April 2004), the prolific author of nearly 20 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and essays evokes destinations among four continents that represent a personal and spiritual voyage. In prose and poetry, Agosín recounts a journey that begins in Chile, the country her family left in the early days of the Pinochet dictatorship. She moves onto Prague and Vienna, ancestral homes of her grandparents. Kneeling before graves at the Terezin concentration camp, where 22 of her relatives died, Agosín places “small stones, shrubs, the things of life on those graves I did not recognize.” Progressing through the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Europe and the Americas, her travels find inspiration in other women whose devotion and creativity offer hope for the world. Calling herself a “wandering Jew paying tribute to her origins,” she identifies with all exiles who search for a history and a home. While writing of diaspora and oppression, she highlights the dignity and bravery of those who find refuge in art, community and tradition, saying, “I have always wanted to understand the meaning of displacement and the quest or longing for home.” Her book has won praise from writers including Isabel Allende, who wrote a prelude for Cartographies. Agosín has won numerous awards for her human-rights work as well as the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement, the Letras de Oro prize and the Latino Literature Prize. Davis After Dark is a celebration of arts and music featuring highly creative students, faculty and staff. The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is the place to go for an evening to celebrate arts and music at Wellesley College Thursday, April 1, beginning at 6:30 pm. The evening will feature live performances by Yanvalou, the Shakespeare Society and the Widows. Art lectures will be offered by various faculty members, while crafts projects, photos, scavenger hunts and prizes round out the evening. A photography exhibition by Optik will be presented, and snacks and smoothies will be made by Collins Cafe. Davis After Dark is sponsored by the museum’s Student Advisory Council. For more information, call x4026. looking at the life of a greek priestess It’s time priestesses get their due. “Priestesses were as important as priests in the cults of the gods, but until now there has not been a full-length treatment in English of the role of women in ancient Greek ritual,” says Mary Lefkowitz, classical studies. Enter Joan Breton Connelly, associate professor of fine arts at New York University, who will present a talk, “Women and Ritual: Priestesses in Ancient Greece,” Thursday, April 1, at 4:15 pm in Jewett Arts Center, room 352. CHANGE: This lecture has been postponed until Thursday April 15th, 4:15 and will be in room 450 Jewett. An art historian and archaeologist, Connelly has spent 20 years in the field, pursuing her interests in the Hellenistic East and excavating sites in Greece, Cyprus and Kuwait. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, she is director of the Yeronisos Island Expedition and Field School off the coast of western Cyprus and the author of Votive Sculpture of Hellenistic Cyprus and the forthcoming Women and Ritual: Priestesses in Greek Art and Society and Parthenon and Parthenoi: Reinterpretation of the Parthenon and Its Sculptural Program, based on her study of Athenian myth, cult and drama. The lecture is sponsored by Classical Studies, Art, Religion and History departments. For more information, call x2631. former dean campaign chairman to speak Despite the end of the Howard Dean campaign, Steve Grossman, Dean’s former national campaign chairman, remains in the spotlight. On Tuesday, March 30, he will speak in Pendleton Atrium at 7 pm on presidential politics and other topics. Grossman served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party from 1991-92 and as national chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1997-99. His expertise is in demand by political correspondents in this election year; he recently was quoted in The Boston Globe, dismissing speculation about Hillary Clinton as a vice presidential candidate. The lecture is sponsored by the Political Science Department and the CPLA. For more information, call x2194. professor to talk about cellular effects on health Professor Carolyn Bertozzi of the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California will present a Mayer Lecture on Monday, March 29, at 5:15 pm in Science Center 277. Her talk is titled “Chemistry in the Cellular Environment: New Tools for Profiling Glycosylation.” Bertozzi is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. A leader in interdisciplinary, collaborative research and teaching, she has won the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award as well as many awards for undergraduate teaching. Her research looks at cell surface interactions that contribute to human health and disease, with specific projects in the areas of cancer, inflammation and bacterial infection. Her group uses the techniques of organic synthesis, genetics and biochemistry as tools to study and manipulate complex cellular processes. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences. Refreshments will be served at 4:45 pm in Sage Lounge. For more information, call x3153. lisa barbin, police chief, will run the Boston Marathon April 19 to benefit Wellesley’s Girls’ LEAP (Life Empowerment Awareness Program) Self-Defense Inc. A pledge sheet is available at Campus Police, the Center for Work and Service and the Sports Center. Deborah Weaver, LEAP executive director, notes, “We will be honoring her accomplishment at the Girls’ Day at Wellesley April 21.” As part of the Visiting Writers Series, frank bidart, English, presented a poetry reading at the University of Michigan. Author of five books of poetry, he was awarded the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. roberta "brett" frechette, chef, President’s House, will run a half-marathon May 8 in Alton Bay, N.H., for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. “As a participant and a survivor of lymphoma, I am also the ‘Honored Hero’ for that event,” she said. She plans a fundraising concert April 4 from 7-9 pm at the Sherborn Unitarian Church featuring the acoustic band Woodwork, the women’s singing group Constellations and singer-songwriters Ben Tousley and Joanne Hammill. She will be honoree for the women’s marathon race “Nike Goddess” in San Francisco Oct. 24. james o’gorman, art, delivered two lectures on American architecture at the Politecnico University in Milan in February. “The Maine Prespective,” an exhibition of 19th-century architectural drawings for buildings in the state, for which he acted as guest curator, is on view at the Portland Museum of Art until May 22. “The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston,” a collection of papers to which he contributed and for which he acted as editor, will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in June.
open class. “Steve McQueen and the Urban Imagination.” Speaker: Elizabeth Ford, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. 11:10 am, DMCC. Info: x2034. lecture. Department of Biological Sciences Mayer Lecture: “Chemistry in the Cellular Environment: New Tools for Profiling Glycosylation.” Speaker: Carolyn Bertozzi, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UC-Berkeley. 5:15 pm, SCI 277. Info: x3153. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7-8 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. performance. Hip-Hop Dance. Featuring: Hypnotix, UC-Berkley; Imobilare, MIT; Freestyle. 7:30-9:30 pm, Alumnae Hall Auditorium. Info: x2959. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. administrative council. 11 am-noon, Academic Council Room. spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info: x3571. lacrosse vs. Wheaton. 4 pm, Sports Center. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2003. lecture. “Computer Science and Sociology: The Link Prediction Problem for Social Networks.” Speaker: David Liben-Nowell, MIT. 4:30 pm, SCI E111. (See story, page 4.) Sponsor: Computer Science. Info: x3120. lecture. “The Legacy of Eric Williams.” Speaker: Erica Williams-Connell. 4:30-6 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Africana Studies. Info: x2563. lecture. “Celebrating QR Connections: To Digitize or Not to Digitize: My Artistic Journey and Current Place at the Crossroads of Art and Technology with Digital Designs.” Speaker: John Maeda, MIT. 5-6:15 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: QR. Info: x2154. apt workshop. “Thesis or Independent Study: That Is a Good Question!” 6 pm, McAfee Living Room. Info: x2641. lecture. “On Why It Was and Still Is Important to Think About Isvara.” Speaker: Parimal Patil, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard. 6 pm, location TBA. Sponsor: Darshana. Info: x4350. unitarian universalist meeting. 6:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. lecture. “Presidential Politics.” Speaker: Steve Grossman, former national chairman, Democratic Committee. 7 pm, Pendleton Atrium. Sponsors: Political Science, CPLA. (See story, page 2.) Info: eament@wellesley.edu. lecture. “The Myths and Realities of Electroconvulsive Therapy.” Speaker: Michael Henry, Electroconvulsive Therapy Services, Harvard Medical School. 7 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: OMHA, SOFC. Info: x7472. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. meditation. 12:30-1 pm, Buddhist meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. midday muse concert. “Dvorak Celebration.” 12:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. lecture. “Junia: Apostle Deposed by Gender Change.” Speaker: Eldon Epp, Case Western Reserve University. 4:45 pm, Library Lecture Room. Reception, 4:15 pm. Sponsors: Religion, Elisabeth Luce Moore Fund for Christian Studies. Info: x2609. film. Gasaraki. 4:50 and 7:30 pm, FND 120. Sponsor: Japanese. Info: x3226. lecture. “The Asian American Experience.” Speaker: Sophia Kim, doctoral student. 5-7 pm, Billings 200. Info: x2959. art/cooking class. “Appetizing Art: Viva Espana.” Spanish specialties; talk on artist Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz. 5:45-8 pm, Collins Café. Preregister. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x3379. panel discussion. Alumnae speak about majors and careers. 6 pm, Stone-Davis Living Room. Sponsor: ACCESS. Info: jschwalb@wellesley.edu. apt workshop. “Combat Academic Stress: Tips from the APTs and Health Reps.” 7 pm, Freeman Living Room. Info: x2641. lecture. “A Discussion on Systems of Psychotherapy.” Speaker: Paul Wink, psychology. 7:30 pm, Pomeroy Hall Living Room. Sponsor: OMHA. Info: x7472. april fool’s day. wcw seminar. “An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News 1978-1982.” Speaker: Amy Hoffman, WCW. 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Info: x2483. japanese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance Conference Room. Info: x4442. french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Seminar room. Info: x2497. POSTPONED lecture. “Women and Ritual: Priestesses in Ancient Greece.” Speaker: Joan Breton Connelly, NYU. 4:15 pm, Jewett 372. Sponsors: Classical Studies, Religion, Art, Women’s Studies, History. (See story, above.) Info: x2630. This lecture will now be held April 15th, 4:15, Jewett 450. lecture. “Probability and Intuition.” Martha Davenport Heard Lecture. Speaker: Peter Winkler, Bell Labs Institute for Advanced Study. 4:15 pm, SCI 362. Sponsor: Mathematics. Info: x3148. lecture. “La France et les Etats-Unis: un conflit de modèle.” Speaker: Sylvia Ullmo. 5 pm, French House. Info: x2415. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. apt workshop. “Combat Academic Stress: Tips from the APTs and Health Reps.” 7 pm, Dower Living Room. Info: x2641. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. lecture-recital. “Enacting One’s Own Becoming: Beethoven, Hegel, Darwin and Organicism.” Triple Helix Piano Trio with Kathryn Lockwood and Maud Chaplin, philosophy. 12:30-2:15 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. italian table. 12:30 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x1999. muslim prayer. 12:45-2 pm. Little Chapel. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. film. Les Invasions Barbares. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society. Info: x7946. observatory public night. Telescope observing, tours and Wendy Bauer, astronomy, on “The Mars Exploration Rovers.” 8-10 pm, Whitin Observatory. Info: jregester@wellesley.edu. lacrosse vs. Springfield. 1 pm, Sports Center. Sponsor: Athletics. Info: x2003. film. Les Invasions Barbares. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society. Info: x7946. palm sunday. Christian tradition. worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious Life. Info: x2688. concert. Triple Helix Piano Trio, “Beethoven and His Vibrant Legacy.” 7 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. meeting. Prayer and discussion. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsors: Darshana, Hindu Community. Info: x2794. monday april 5 english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7-8 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. video exhibit. Steve McQueen: Prey, Drumroll and Exodus. March 19-June 29, DMCC. Info: x2034. exhibit. One Thing Leads To Another: A Vignette of Black History. 4th Floor, Clapp Library. Through April. Sponsor: Archives. Info: x2127. exhibit. Floral Watercolors by Nancy Howell. Botanic Gardens Visitors’ Center. Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3094. book sale. Clapp Library. Donations: 50 cents-$2. Info: x2894.
don't miss... six degrees of separation: is there anyone you don't know? Many of us have played “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” a party game based on a John Guare play and its movie adaptation Six Degrees of Separation. Guare contends we are all connected by six or fewer stages of circumstance or acquaintance. The party game makes connections between the ubiquitous Kevin Bacon and other actors. On Tuesday, March 30, at 4:30 pm, in Science Center E111, a computer science/sociology lecture will explore this phenomenon when speaker David Liben-Nowell of MIT presents “The Link Prediction Problem for Social Networks.” “Beginning with the ‘six degrees of separation’ experiments of Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, interest in the structure and analysis of social networks has blossomed into a full-fledged area of research,” says Leben-Nowell. “Many interesting statistical properties of social networks...have been identified, verified and modeled. In this talk, I will review some of the interesting phenomena that have been observed in social networks, and then describe the ‘link prediction problem’ for social networks: Given a snapshot of a social network, can we infer which new interactions among its members are likely to occur in the near future?” For more information, call x3120.
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