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jennifer yum earns beinecke scholarship for graduate study Jennifer Yum, a junior majoring in history and international relations, has been named a Beinecke Scholar. The Beinecke Scholarship Program provides generous financial support for the graduate education of “young men and women of exceptional promise” who plan to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Yum plans to pursue a Ph.D. in East Asian history. While at Wellesley, she has been a contributor to Counterpoint, the MIT-Wellesley monthly journal, and has been active in vocal music including choral music and campus opera productions. She received First Year Academic Distinction as well as the 2003 Barnette Miller Foundation Prize from the History Department. She has a study, “Assessing the Fate of the Developmental State After Crisis: A South Korean Case Study,” published in Hemispheres, the Tufts University Journal of International Affairs. “I seek to become a historian of East Asia,” said Yum, who grew up in a large Asian immigrant community in Los Angeles. “My (Korean-American) parents gave me my first history lessons by sharing their memories of their homeland.” Her studies at Wellesley have included a seminar on Japanese colonialism that pushed her “to think beyond the moral narrative.” For her Ph.D., she will need to be able to recognize nearly 5,000 Chinese characters and to have proficiency in Korean, Japanese and Chinese, in addition to the required study in diverse historical contexts. The Beinecke award will go a long way toward helping Yum realize her goals. “As a professor of East Asian history, I hope to impart my knowledge, as well as my dedication to the discipline, to the next generation of students,” she said. “To seek new insights and teach others to follow suit is the only way to ensure that curious minds will continue to look back and ask ‘how’ and ‘why.’” professor tells how to fool a search engine On Tuesday, May 4, at 12:30 pm in Science Center E111, Takis Metaxas, computer science, will talk about information on the Web in a lecture titled “How To Fool a Search Engine.” “In the last 10 years we have seen an amazing growth in the availability of information on the Web,” said Metaxas. “According to most estimates, the publicly accessible Web now contains between 2 and 8 billion pages and it is growing daily.” While search engines such as Google and Yahoo have made it easy to find information, the problem is determining if that information can be trusted. “Not everything we find on the Web is valid information,” Metaxas said. “In recent weeks, there has been a lot of attention in the media about the vulnerability of the search engines’ query results.” How do search engines do what they do? How can they be fooled so easily? Metaxas will try to answer these questions and describe how the problem can be corrected. “I will also describe several small research projects that Computer Science students can take on for summer research or honors thesis,” he added. “I will demo a tool that was developed recently by Mirena Chausheva ’04 that is exploring Web neighborhoods and is looking for spam clusters.” For more information, call x3054. Information Services/Telecommunications is implementing a new easy-to-use automated speech recognition system for campus telephones. IntelliSPEECH offers quick access to campus people and departments and enhances telephone directory assistance. The voice-activated system is currently in test mode. It works by dialing extension 4000 (or off campus, 781-283-4000). An automated voice will ask you to say the first and last name of the person (or the name of the department) you are trying to reach. The system will repeat your request and, if correct, make the transfer. Members of the Wellesley community are asked to check their name pronunciation by dialing x4000 and saying their own first and last name. If system pronunciation is inaccurate, call x3909 to report the problem. For more information, contact tborey@wellesley.edu. panel tries unraveling the da vinci code The Wellesley Literature Club, with the English Department and the Protestant Christian Chaplaincy, will sponsor a panel discussion, “Uncover the Code,” on Wednesday, May 5, at 4:15 pm in Pendleton West 212. Panelists will explore the historical, artistic and religious issues surrounding The New York Times bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Kathryn Lynch, English, will speak about the Holy Grail in literary history; Lilian Armstrong, art history, will show how Brown’s interpretation of Da Vinci’s Last Supper is inaccurate; Sharon Elkins, religion, will discuss the portrayal of Catholicism; Pat Walton, Protestant Christian Chaplaincy, will speak about Mary Magdalene in the Bible and Gnostic gospels; and David Bernat, Jewish studies, will speak about the portrayal of Judaism. The sole student on the panel is Heather Long ’04.“I have the daunting task of ‘defending’ the book after all of the professors expose its inaccuracies,” she said. “I am not arguing that it should be part of the English literary canon, but I do think The Da Vinci Code and its predecessor Angels & Demons are good reads that have more merits than flaws.” For more, go to www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/releasestoc.html or call x4265. two enjoy gilman study abroad opportunity Two Wellesley juniors have been awarded 2004 Gilman Scholarships for study abroad. They are two of the 173 winners of 990 applicants. Julia Meade, majoring in French and biology, won her award for study in the Wellesley Aix-en-Provence program. She has focused on French culture and history as well as the development of French medicine. “I want to work with multinational groups such as the World Health Organization or Doctors without Borders to provide medical relief all over the world,” said Meade. “Studying in France also fulfills my personal goal of better understanding other cultures. I want to learn how to interact with people who don’t automatically hold the same beliefs I do.” Mona Williams earned a Gilman Scholarship for study in Senegal, Africa, focusing on the country’s arts and culture. She has received the Balch Internship from the Wellesley Peace and Justice Studies program, which she will complete this summer in Senegal. “I have always had a strong desire to travel to Africa,” she said. “My mother is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and she has told me stories about her country and Africa for some time. As strong as my mother is, she could not preserve nor could she replace the part of my culture that is perhaps the most important: the people.” seqs available online april 30-may 11 The Office of the Dean of the College reminds students that the online SEQ system will be available from April 30-May 11. The SEQ conference on students’ FirstClass desktops will be used to communicate SEQ information throughout this period. Each student is required to complete an evaluation for each instructor in every course in which she is enrolled. Members of the faculty and the administration take SEQs very seriously, and student compliance with this requirement is very important. For more information, call x3583. christine franek, head coach, tennis, has been inducted into the Rhode Island Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame. She has compiled a 35-20 career mark and a 17-7 record in the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). During her three seasons here, she has led Wellesley to a 2002 NCAA qualifying bid, a 2001 NEWMAC Championship and a 2002 Seven Sisters Championship. Eight of her student-athletes have earned NEWMAC All-Conference honors including Alex Barrows ’07, Hana Freymiller ’07 and Emily McDonald ’07. Four have earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete honors including Elizabeth Okasako ’03 and Esther Handy ’05. Franek also served as a panelist for the April 30 Independent Educational Consultants Association’s National Conference workshop, “Kids and Coaches: Athletic Recruitment and the Admission Process.” t. james kodera, religion, recently addressed faculty and students of Amherst College with a lecture, “Interning the ‘Enemy Race’: Japanese Americans during World War II.” The event was sponsored by Amherst’s Department of Asian Studies. craig murphy, political science, is writing a history of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), one of the largest parts of the intergovernmental organization network. “It runs the country offices that organize the whole U.N. system’s presence in the 160 or so ‘developing’ countries,” Murphy said. The UNDP’s funding relationships provide one of the primary mechanisms for coordinating the work of the whole U.N. system. It does much of the work of government in places in transition, such as Afghanistan. Murphy will produce the book by 2006 in time for the UNDP’s 40th anniversary.
trip. Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain. 9 am-2:30 pm, Gray Lot. Cost: Members $15, non-members $18. Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3094. president’s open office hour. 12:30-1:30 pm, GRH 350. Info: x2243. meeting. “Disability Discussion.” 12:30-1:30 pm, FND 305. Sponsor: Disability Services. Info: x2434. english tutoring. 6-9 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. apt discussion. “Combat Academic Stress: Tips from the APTs and Health Reps.” 7 pm, Stone-Davis Living Room. Info: x2641. meditation. 7-8 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. visak puja (Buddha Day). Buddhist tradition. meditation. 8:30-9 am, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. open class. “Steve McQueen and Contemporary Installation Art.” Speaker: Patricia Berman, art. 11:10 pm, Chandler Gallery, Davis Museum. Info: x2048. open house. Completion of Construction. Refreshments. 12-1:30 pm, Davis Parking Facility and Campus Police Headquarters. (See story, below.) Sponsor: Physical Plant. Info: x2751. lecture. “How to Fool a Search Engine.” Speaker: Takis Metaxas, computer science. 12:30 pm, Science Center E111. (See story, above.) Info: x3054. spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info: x3571. unitarian universalist meeting. 6:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. cinco de mayo. academic council meeting. 12:30-2 pm, Academic Council Room. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. panel discussion. “Uncover the Da Vinci Code.” Speakers: Lilian Armstrong, art history; Kathryn Lynch, English; Sharon Elkins, religion; David Bernat, Jewish studies; Pat Walton, Protestant Christian Chaplaincy; Heather Long ’04. 4:15 pm, Pendleton West 212. (See story, above.) Sponsors: English, Protestant Chaplaincy. Info: x4265. films. The Tale of the Genji and The Izu Dancer. 4:50 and 7:30 pm, FND 120. Sponsor: Japanese. Info: x3226. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: amnestymail@wellesley.edu. meditation. 12:30-1 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. 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. poetry reading. “End-of-Semester Poetry Bash: Mein Lieblingsgedicht.” Refreshments. 4:30-6 pm, Founders 407. Sponsor: German. Info: x2584. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. bible study and worship services. 7:30 pm, Billings 202. Refreshments. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. last day of classes. meditation. 8:30-9 am, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. italian table. 12:30 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x1999. muslim prayer. 12:45-2 pm. Little Chapel. Refreshments. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. concert. Chamber Music Society. 7:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. performance. Yanvalou. Kera Washington, director. 8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. mother’s day. 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.\ meeting. Darshana prayer and discussion. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsors: Darshana, Hindu Community. Info: x2794. monday may 10 meditation. 7:30-9 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. exhibit. Steve McQueen, video installation artist, Drumroll, Exodus and Prey. Through June 29, Davis Museum. Info: x2051. book sale. Clapp Library. Donations: 50 cents-$2. Info: x2894.
don't miss... party will celebrate parking, police and more An open house and reception will celebrate the completion of two construction projects on the West Campus. The Davis Parking Facility and the adjacent Campus Police Headquarters will be party central on Tuesday, May 4, from noon to 1:30 pm. Tours, refreshments and more will be on the agenda. “The purpose is to celebrate these new additions to the Wellesley campus and to give everyone on campus a chance to see them,” said Patricia Byrne, vice president, administration and planning. Byrne especially wants to honor campus police, who endured two temporary locations during the construction project. “They put up with a lot, and we’re grateful,” she said. “This is to celebrate campus police and all those who made it happen – physical plant staff, the architects, the construction company.” Byrne notes that
this is the first in a series of celebrations to be held as different
phases of the Alumnae Valley projects are completed. “Then
we’ll have the big celebration when the entire project is finished,” she
said. For more information, call x2751.
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