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schiff fellowships benefit 15 student researchers
dec. 2 deadline looms for ruhlman participants
russian artist creates temporary installations
guatemalan children to benefit from grant
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2004
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schiff fellowships benefit 15 student researchers
Fifteen Wellesley students have been selected to receive 2004 Schiff Fellowships. Made possible through the Jerome A. Schiff Charitable Trust, the awards support the scholarly work of students in the senior honors program. This year’s fellows, including majors, research projects and faculty advisors, are:
Anna Azaryeva, international relations, for “Gender and Poverty in Russia and Brazil: The Impact of Women’s Movement on Formulating Social Policy Agenda” (Lois Wasserspring, political science); Aileen Marie Cruz, comparative literature, for “Ethical Representations of Minorities in Japanese and Latin American Literature: Rosario Castellano’s Nine Guardians and Sumii Sue’s The River with No Bridge” (Eve Zimmerman, Japanese);
Joy Delamaide, biological sciences, for “The Effects of Altered Chloroplast Morphology of Arabidopsis Thaliana on Both Chloroplast Movement and Recovery from Light Stress” (Martina Königer, biological sciences); Maeve Gearing, economics, for “The Impact of Indian Casinos on State Revenue” (Phil Levine, economics); Farida Habeeb, English, for “Deconstructing Emersonian Transcendentalism through Melville: The Conflation of Self, Society, and the Romantic Quest in Moby-Dick” (William Cain, English);
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, sociology, for “‘Family Ties’: Culture and Organization Among Ukrainian Catholics in America” (Peggy Levitt, sociology); May Kim, international relations, for “The Future of Corruption in North Korea: Comparative Case Studies of Four Possible Paths for Reform” (Katharine Moon, political science); Wendy Leutert, political science, for “The Political Evolution of the Hong Kong Legislative Council” (William Joseph, political science);
Victoria Lyo, biological sciences, for “Elucidating the Cytoplasmic Roles of Clb2 via a Synthetic Lethal Screen and Biochemical Assays” (Jennifer Hood-DeGrenier, biological sciences); Ee Cheng Ong, economics, for “The Medium-term Impact of Capital Controls: Who Gains?” (Akila Weerapana, economics); Paulina Ponce de León Baridó, physics, for “Optimization of an Optical Fibre Probe for Early Cancer Detection” (William Quivers, physics); Susanna Supalla, political science, for “Why We’ve Got What We’ve Got: Mainstreaming of Students with Disabilities in the U.S. Education System” (Lori Johnson, political science);
Simran Thadani, English, for “‘Reuled by the Sighte Above’: Making Sense of Power and Spectacle in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale” (Kathryn Lynch, English); Robyn Worthington, history, for “The Search for Sacred Power: The Narragansetts and the Great Awakening” (Nathaniel Sheidley, history); Jennifer Yum, history, for “The Discourse on the ‘New Woman’ in Colonial Korea, 1920-1930” (Y. Tak Matsusaka, history).dec. 2 deadline looms for ruhlman participants
With the Tanner Conference still fresh in our minds, it’s time to begin planning the next celebration of student achievement: the Ruhlman Conference.
Students interested in participating in the Ruhlman Conference must have a faculty sponsor and must submit their application, including a preliminary abstract and title, by Thursday, Dec. 2; a final title and description of the presentation will be due by Friday, Feb. 11. Student proposals will be entered via a Web form via a link from the Ruhlman home page (www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Ruhlman/home.html).
The ninth annual Ruhlman Conference will be held Wednesday, May 4. Made possible by the Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Interdisciplinary Study, the Ruhlman Conference is intended to foster collaboration among students and faculty across the disciplines and to enhance the intellectual life of the College. The conference focuses on on-campus achievements involving research, creative work and artistic performance through talks, panels, poster sessions, exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, readings of original work and debates. For more information, e-mail ruhlman@wellesley.edu.Through the Center for Work and Service’s Shadow Program, students and alumnae can create an opportunity to spend a day exploring a professional field, one on one.
On Monday, Nov. 22, at 5 pm in the Center for Work and Service Library, a shadow workshop will provide assistance with finding the right shadow prospect alumna, making the initial contact and helping to create a positive shadow experience. Pre-registration is requested but not required. For more information, call x2352.
russian artist creates temporary installations
One of Russia’s foremost contemporary painters and installation artists, Valery Koshlyakov, has served as the Davis Museum’s artist-in-residence this fall. He created two new temporary installations for the museum’s lobby, which will remain on display through January.
His works, often created as collages of painted cardboard hung or taped directly to the walls, incorporate monumental images of architectural relics. He depicts monuments (such as the Kremlin) and places within Europe, transforming them into symbols of cultural heritage and politics. His use of cardboard can be read in the context of European artists in the 1960s (such as Daniel Spoerri, Villeglé and Raymond Hains) who sought to work with found objects and to redefine painting. Koshlyakov also engages a Russian tradition of using such materials.
Koshlyakov was born in 1962 in the southern region of Russia, in Salsk, Rostov, where he was trained as a stage decorator in theatres and was active in the underground art scenes in Rostov and later in Moscow. The Davis Museum hosts Koshlyakov’s first U.S. museum exhibition, which is funded by the Davis Fund for Russian Area Studies.guatemalan children to benefit from grant
Contexto Foundation, a non-profit organization based in an underprivileged neighborhood called El Pueblito in Guatemala City, has been named this year’s recipient of the Wellesley College International Grant. The grant provides funding to organizations with demonstrated need that have hosted Wellesley students or alumnae for internships or other learning experiences outside of the United States.
Last summer, Wellesley’s Analucia Martinez ’07 and two members of the Class of 2004, Jimena Leiva-Roesch and Roshni Sampath, worked with Contexto Foundation and its 40 children between the ages of 8 and 13. On behalf of the organization, the Wellesley students jointly applied for the grant in order to help Contexto defray the costs of building a Center of Culture and Arts in El Pueblito.
Contexto currently operates out of the director’s house, located in a private gated community three kilometers from El Pueblito, a location that keeps Contexto both physically and culturally removed from El Pueblito as well as presenting a multitude of security issues. For instance, children walk 40 minutes to get to Contexto along the side of a busy highway with blind curves. In addition to the possibility of being hit by a car, some children have been approached by taxis offering them a ride, which has raised alarms due to the threat of kidnapping and child prostitution.
Having a center in the community will eliminate the security issues that currently plague Contexto, ensuring the future stability of the organization and the well-being of its participants.
At Wellesley, Martinez serves as president of Alianza, a Latin American-oriented student organization, and as a resident advisor in Shafer residence hall. She is also a member of Yanvalou, a Haitian-Brazilian drum-and-dance ensemble.
martin brody, music, has been selected as the recipient of the 2004-05 Roger Sessions Memorial Bogliasco Fellowship in Music. He will take up his residency in February at the Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities near Genoa, Italy. Under the terms of his award, which has been made possible thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Brody will receive a cash stipend of $3,000 and his travel expenses will be paid. Brody has received numerous awards for his work, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as commissions from the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Artists Foundation, and the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Council. During his residency, he will be working on his third chamber opera, “Bisclavret,” an adaptation of a medieval lai by Marie de France, which has been commissioned by the Boston Musica Viva for performance in the spring of 2006. The Bogliasco Foundation grants approximately 50 residency fellowships, usually of one month’s duration, during the two semesters of the traditional academic year for advanced creative work or scholarly research in the various disciplines of the arts and humanities.
t. james kodera, religion and East Asian studies, was elected to the Board of Directors of ASIANetwork, a consortium of some 160 North American colleges and universities.The professional academic organization is devoted to advancing scholarship and teaching in Asian Studies with an emphasis on undergraduate teaching. The three-year term begins in 2005. Kodera also traveled to Japan in October with 31 Wellesley alumnae and their spouses, a trip sponsored by Wellesley’s Alumnae Office. The theme of the study tour was “Treasures and Traditions of Modern Japan.”
administrative council meeting. 11 am-noon, Academic Council Room. Info: x2036.
italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court private dining hall. Info: x2616.
cws workshop. “Job Shadowing.” 5 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
meeting. College Government Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
cws workshop. “Using the Wellesley Network.” 6:30 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
cws workshop. “Job Shadowing.” 7 pm, Stone-Davis living room. Info: x2352.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
improvisation workshop. Speaker: Renata Bratt, jazz cellist and educator. 7-9 pm, JAC 106. Sponsor: Synergy and Fiddledheads. Info: 617-332-7690.walk with spirit. 4 pm, Chapel lawn. Sponsor: Religious and Spiritual Life. Info: x2687.
meeting. “Travel Talk in the Hoop: Programs in English, not in England.” 4:15 pm, Café Hoop. Sponsor: International Study. Info: x2320.
sharing circle. 7-8 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Unitarian Universalist. Info: x3484.
german table. 7:30-8:30 pm, Schneider loft. Info: x2584.thanksgiving recess. Begins after last class.
russian table. 1-2 pm, FND 416. Info: x3584.thanksgiving day. Administrative holiday.
administrative holiday.
worship service. 11:15 am, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655.
catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Newman Catholic Ministry. Info: x2688.
meeting. Darshana. 5 pm, meditation room, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Hindu Community. Info: x2794.monday november 29
classes resume.
italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court private dining hall. Info: x2616.
meeting. College Government Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
cws workshop. “Navigating the CWS Library.” 6:30, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
film/discussion. Smoke and Mirrors: A Geisha Story. Speaker: Artemis Willis ’88, filmmaker. 6:30-8:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: The Writing Program. Info: x2185.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
exhibit. Mayling and Emma: A Chinese-American Friendship. Clapp Reference Room, through Dec. 31. Info: x2128.
exhibit. Inspired by Flowers. Botanic Gardens Visitor Center, through Nov. 24. Info: x3094.
exhibit. Presidential Elections at Wellesley College. Archives, Clapp Library, through December. Info: x2127.
exhibit. Infinite Possibilities. Through Dec. 12. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
exhibit. American Identities. Through Dec. 14. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
exhibit. The Consequences of War: Poetry, Graphic Art and Documents. Clapp Library Special Collections, through February. Info: x2129.
book sale. Clapp Library. Donations $.50 to $2. Info: x2894.
12/3/04: Class of 2007 major declarations due if intending fall 2005 or fall/spring 2005/2006 study abroad programs.
12/10/04: Last day of fall term classes.
12/11/04: Reading period begins.
12/14/04: Charitable Giving Campaign raffle. 9:30 am, Academic Council Room.
12/15/04: Final exams begin; 9-11:30 am and 1:30-4 pm.
12/21/04: Final exams end in the afternoon. Final papers due by 4:30 pm.
don't miss...improvisation workshop open to all musicians and singers
On Monday, Nov. 22, from 7 to 9 pm in Jewett 106, jazz cellist and educator Renata Bratt will conduct an improvisation clinic especially for string players, but open to all instrumentalists and vocalists. In the second hour of the clinic, she will demonstrate special cello techniques for jazz and fiddle styles (with assistance from Wellesley music faculty Emerald Forman and Paula Zeitlin, and students). This event is free and open to the public, so all are invited to bring instruments to this great opportunity to see a master teacher and player in action.
Bratt is president of the International Association for Jazz Education String Caucus and serves on the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) Alternative String Styles Steering Committee as well as the Kuumbwa Jazz Center Board in Santa Cruz, Calif. She writes articles on improvisation and fiddle styles for Strings Magazine, ASTA and the Suzuki Music Association. Her book, The Fiddling Cellist, has recently been released by Mel Bay Publications. She is the author of the forthcoming The Jazz Cellist and wrote the arrangements for Dix Bruce’s “Backup Trax: Old Time and Fiddle Tunes for Cello.” In addition to frequent recording projects and classical interludes (notably performing with the San Diego Symphony, the Monterey Symphony and the Pasadena Symphony), she has taught classical styles, jazz improvisation and fiddling techniques at national string workshops for children and adults, has been an invited recitalist at the Spanish embassy in Rome and is past president of the Suzuki Music Association of California. Bratt received her Ph.D. in music from the University of California at San Diego. For more information, call x2077.
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