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may

2005

ruhlman conference: a day to celebrate student projects

The 2005 Ruhlman Conference, held on Wednesday, May 4, from 9 am-6 pm all across campus, will feature presentations of projects completed by more than 300 Wellesley College students. The projects range from “The Joys and Tribulations of Reading and Translating Classical Japanese” to “Cars, Toilets and Gravity: Looking at the Physics of Everyday Life.”

The Ruhlman Conference is a campuswide celebration that helps to foster collaboration among students and faculty across academic disciplines while enhancing the intellectual life of the College. Reflecting the diversity of student interest and accomplishment, it presents student work in a variety of formats: papers, panels, posters, exhibitions, musical and theatrical performances, interactive teaching presentations and readings of original work. The day is organized around seven major themes: Change; Literature and the Arts; Multicultural Research; Political Development; Science and Technology; Self and Identity; and Social Analysis.

In addition to the outstanding quality of work, the wide-ranging topics make the Ruhlman Conference a truly exceptional event. Under the theme of Science and Technology, you can choose among 22 presentations such as “Of Mind and Manner: Understanding Brain and Behavior.” Under Literature and the Arts, students will present 14 topics including a performance of “The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune.”

One intriguing project has been undertaken by 15 students in the capstone Environmental Studies course.

“Our project consists of research on environmentally sound ways of constructing a new residence hall,” said Jessica Van Houten ’05, an environmental studies major. “Considering the fact that Wellesley College is in the very early stages of discussing and planning a new residence hall, our project will be a collection of suggestions of ways and reasons for Wellesley to make the new building ‘green.’"

Refreshments will be served throughout the day including lunch on the Academic Quad (rain location: residence halls) from 12:10-1:30 pm. For more information, go to www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Ruhlman/home.html.

latina month presents former dominican vp

“Women, Power, and Politics in Latin America” is the topic of a lecture by Milagros Ortiz Bosch, former vice president of the Dominican Republic, on Monday, May 9, from 5:30-7 pm in Jewett Auditorium, part of Wellesley’s Latina Month. A reception will be held at 5 pm at Jewett.

After obtaining a degree in law and teaching political science at the University of Santo Domingo, Bosch served two terms in Congress before becoming vice president of the Dominican Republic in 2000. In that role, she sought to modernize the nation, defend and advocate for women’s rights and reform the judicial and legal systems. She also served as secretary of state for education, implementing an innovative curriculum in public schools geared to improving resources and equality for the poor. In 2004, she was a presidential candidate who sought to empower women. She continues advocating for human rights and better working conditions as director of the Commission on Labor.

“Many countries in Latin America have been governed by women – something we have yet to achieve in the U.S.,” noted Rosa Fernández ’07, Mezcla lecture chair. “Dr. Bosch’s visit to Wellesley will allow Mezcla to dispel misconceptions and create a much needed discussion on the role, power and place of Latin American women abroad and to learn from Dr. Bosch’s leadership and history of political activism and participation.This event will provide an example of women who make a difference in the world.” For more, e-mail rfernand@wellesley.edu.

managing money

A TIAA-CREF seminar, “Estate Planning/Wealth Management,” will be offered to Wellesley College employees Tuesday, May 3, at 4 pm in the Academic Council Room on the fourth floor of Green Hall.

The seminar will cover:

- What constitutes your taxable estate
- Tools for reducing estate taxes
- Protecting income and assets
- An overview of trusts and their use in estate planning
- Services available through TIAA-CREF Trust Co.

The seminar is co-sponsored by Human Resources. For more information, call Eleanor Tutty at x2215.

wellesley students earn fellowship honors

Wellesley College students continue to accumulate prestigious fellowship awards this spring.

Meredith Riley ’05, an anthropology and political science major, has been selected to the Carnegie Junior Fellows Program. Each year the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers 8-10 one-year fellowships to students from 300 colleges. Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment’s senior associates. Riley, who is writing her thesis on peace in Bosnia and Northern Ireland, will work in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project.

Wendy Leutert ’05, a political science and philosophy major, has been awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education. The fellowship will fund her year-long intensive study of Mandarin Chinese in 2005-2006 at Cornell and in Beijing.

Four students have been awarded Fulbright Student Program grants, which underwrite international graduate study, research and teaching assistantships. Karen Yookyung Choi ’05 has won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Korea. “I will be teaching English at either a junior high or high school in South Korea for a year,” she said. Ursula Jessee ’05 has received a Fulbright Full Grant to Jordan, Meghan Moreland ’05 has won a PAD Teaching Assistantship/Fulbright Grant to Germany, and Emily Vardell ’05 has won a Fulbright to study and teach in Vienna, Austria, next year. In addition, Julia Meade ’05 is an alternate for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia.

Kim Alston ’06, an English and education major, and Julianne Mark ’06, an English and music major, have won Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships, given for summer projects and one- or two-year graduate study to outstanding students of color entering the teaching profession.

Anna Mueller ’02 has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for three years of support for graduate study. She’ll complete her master’s degree in May at the University of Texas at Austin; the title of her thesis is, “The Role of High Schools in Adolescent Girls Weight Control and Self-Perception.”

how to help new teachers survive and thrive

“Relationships & Reflection: Fostering the Success of New Teachers,” a roundtable discussion sponsored by Wellesley’s Open Circle Program, will take place Tuesday, May 3, from 8-10:30 am at the College Club. Speakers include Susan Moore Johnson, author of Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools, Sam Intrator, co-author of Tuned In and Fired Up: How Teaching Can Inspire Genuine Learning in the Classroom, Chip Wood, co-founder of Responsive Classroom and an elementary school principal, and Sheldon H. Berman, superintendent of Hudson Public Schools. These experts will tackle the topic of new teacher retention and development and explore the role social relationships and reflection play in the likelihood that a new teacher will survive and flourish in the classroom.

The event is supported by a grant from the DuBarry Foundation and includes a continental breakfast. Space is limited, and reservations are required; call x2847.

colleagues in the news

adrienne asch, biology, ethics and the politics of human reproduction, spoke with nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman about living wills. “The typical advance directive or living will does not ask the right questions,” Asch said. “It asks what sort of medical intervention we want or don’t want. The question that we ought to be asked is what am I experiencing? What will make me feel that I have something to live for? What is enough?” Goodman writes, “In her own advance directive (Asch) has written that ‘as long as the people who know me believe that I recognize them and can differentiate them from strangers, I want to be alive.’ After that, enough.”

elena gascón-vera, Spanish, on sabbatical in Spain, is working on her book, Inventio and Tragedy: 15th Century Spain and the Creation of Empire; compiling two anthologies, Women Philosophers of Spain 1980-2005, and Women Anthropologists of Spain 1980-2005, in association with the Instituto Universitario de Estudios de la Mujer de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; lecturing in China with the help of Mellon Mid-Career Enrichment Grants at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai International Studies University and at New City University of Hong Kong; and lecturing at universities in Spain.

rachel jacoff, Italian studies, has contributed to a Leaders & Success column in Investor’s Business Daily titled “Dante Alighieri’s Exile Was Divine Opportunity.” The Italian poet lost everything, including family, home, books and fortune, before devoting his life to writing “The Divine Comedy,” one of the greatest epics of all time. Among Dante’s innovations was to write in Italian. “Writing in Italian was a terrific gamble,” Jacoff noted. “Nobody had tried any serious literature in anything but Latin.”

calendar

monday may 2

twelfth day of ridvan. Baha’i tradition.

italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court private dining room. Info: x2616.

cws workshop. “Self-Assessment.” 4:30-6:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352.

lecture/film. Wet Sands. Speaker: Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, director. 4:30-6:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: American Studies. Info: x2561.

meeting. College Government Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.

esl tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.

meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.

tuesday may 3

symposium. “Relationships and Reflection: Fostering the Success of New Teachers.” Speakers: Susan Moore Johnson and Sam Intrator, authors; Chip Wood, Responsive Classroom; Sheldon Berman, Hudson Public Schools. 8-10:30 am, College Club. (See story, page 2.) Sponsor: Open Circle. RSVP required: x2847.

cws workshop. “Peace Corps: An Alum’s Experience.” Speaker: Pavla Zakova-Laney, DS ’95. 12:30 pm, BIL 100. Info: x2352.

tiaa-cref seminar. “Estate Planning and Wealth Management.” 4-6 pm, Academic Council Room. WC employees only. (See story) Sponsor: Human Resources. Info: x2215.

sharing circle. 7-8 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Unitarian Universalist. Info: x3484.

german table. 7:30-8:30 pm, Schneider loft. Info: x2584.

wednesday may 4

ruhlman conference. 9 am-6 pm. (See story) Sponsor: Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Interdisciplinary Study. Info: ruhlman@wellesey.edu.

meditation. 12:30-1 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.

french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Bates private dining hall. Info: x2403.

spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court dining hall. Info: x3571.

arabic table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court dining hall. Info: x2916.

watercolor classes. “The Landscape in Spring: A Study in Natural Settings.” Wednesdays, 5/4-6/15. 12:30-3:30 pm, Botanic Gardens’ Visitor Center. Members: $165. Non-members: $210. Sponsor: FOH. Info: x3094.

russian table. 1-2 pm, FND 416. Info: x3584.

meeting. Good Book Club. 6:30 pm, BIL 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655.

thursday may 5

feast of the ascension. Roman Catholic tradition.

cinco de mayo. Hispanic tradition.

cws workshop. “Job Search Correspondence.” 12:30 pm, GRH 428. Info: x2352.

meditation. 12:30-1 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.

esl tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.

theatre. Rose of Versailles. Director: Zehra Fazal ’05. 7 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free. Sponsor: Upstage. Box office: x2220.

concert. Prism Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.

friday may 6

yom hashoah. Jewish tradition.

prayer/discussion. Muslim communal (Jummah). 12:45-1:30 pm, lower chapel. Info: x2025.

performance. Euripides’ The Bachhae. 4:30 pm, Hay Outdoor Theater. Reception follows, Alumnae Hall. Sponsor: Classics Club. Info: x2630.

belly dancing performance. 5-6 pm, Alumnae Hall Ballroom. Sponsor: Belly Dancing Society. Info: BellyDancemail@wellesley.edu.

theatre. Rose of Versailles. Director: Zehra Fazal ’05. 8 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free. Sponsor: Upstage. Box office: x2220.

performance. Dance Collective. 8-9:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Info: DanceCollectivemail
@wellesley.edu.

concert. Blue Notes. 8-10 pm, Houghton Chapel. Info: BlueNotesmail@wellesley.edu.

saturday may 7

lacrosse. NEWMAC finals. Info: x2003.

theatre. Rose of Versailles. Director: Zehra Fazal ’05. 2 and 8 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free. Sponsor: Upstage. Box office: x2220.

performance. Wind Workshop. 3-5 pm, PNW 220. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2073.

concert. Awaken the Dawn. 4-7 pm, Tower Court Great Hall. Info: Awakenmail@wellesley.edu.

concert. Wellesley Tupelos. 7-9 pm, Houghton Chapel. Info: Tupelosmail@wellesley.edu.

concert. Yanvalou. 8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.

sunday may 8

mother’s day.

crew. ECAC Championships. 8 am. Info: x2003.

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, lower chapel. Sponsor: Hindu Community. Info: x2794.

concert. Chamber Singers. 7 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.

theatre. Rose of Versailles. Director: Zehra Fazal ’05. 7 pm, Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall. Free. Sponsor: Upstage. Box office: x2220.

monday may 9

italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court private dining room. Info: x2616.

lecture. “Women, Power and Politics in Latin America.” Speaker: Milagros Ortiz Bosch, former vice president, Dominican Republic. 5:30-7 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Reception, 5 pm. (See story) Sponsor: SOFC and CLCE. Info: x7045.

meeting. College Government. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.

esl tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.

meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.

apt workshop. “Take a Break from Studying!” 9 pm, Freeman. Info: x2641.

ongoing

exhibit. Art from China, Japan and Korea. Through June 2006. DMCC. Info: x2051.

exhibit. Modernist Art. Through June 2006. DMCC. Info: x2051.

exhibit. Haugti-Cultural. Drawings by Helen Meyrowitz. Botanic Gardens Visitor Center, through May 15. Info: x3094.

exhibit. Imagining the 20th Century. Part of Boston Cyberarts Festival 2005. Jewett Arts Center, through May 4. Info: x3775.

exhibits. The Reign of Terror. The “Master Prints” of Hendrick Goltzius and Mannerist Art. The Observed and Envisioned: 16th to 19th Century Indian Miniature Paintings of Mughal and Rajput Women. Through June 19, DMCC. Info: x2051.

don't miss...musical tells story of the human struggle to live freely

The musical The Rose of Versailles will be on stage at Barstow Theatre in Alumnae Hall on Thursday, May 5 at 7 pm; Friday, May 6, at 8 pm; Saturday, May 7 at 2 and 8 pm; and Sunday, May 8, at 7 pm. Sponsored by Upstage, the student theatre group, and directed by Zehra Fazal ’05, the musical romance is set at the time of the French Revolution. The production comes from the Takarazuka Revue Company of Japan, the largest all-women theatrical company in the world. “The show was translated by me for my Japanese thesis under the guidance of Professor Carolyn Morley from the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department,” said Fazal. “This is history in the making, as the Wellesley production marks the first time this piece has ever been performed in English.”

The story centers around Oscar, a young aristocratic woman brought up as a boy in order to continue her father’s military lineage. While determined to live her life as a man, Oscar also yearns to live freely, thus struggling between duty and desire. The play explores the concept of identity, gender and class and how love transcends all boundaries. Admission is free. For more information, e-mail zfazal@wellesley.edu.

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