Wellesley Wire 5/16/03

Wellesley Receives $10 Million Gift For Humanities Center -- Donald and Susan Marley Newhouse '55 have pledged $10 million to create and name a humanities center at Wellesley, one of the academic priorities of The Wellesley Campaign. Half of the gift will be used for capital construction and equipment for the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities and half will endow faculty salaries and academic program support. The gift will permanently endow a visiting associate professor of creative writing and a director for the Center and will create endowment support for faculty programming and administrative costs associated with the Center. The capital portion of the gift enables the College to launch the planning process for the most suitable location and architectural design for the center.

"This very generous gift from two ardent Wellesley supporters -- both of whom love writing, words, art, architecture, and all things beautiful -- makes it possible for us to move forward with the planning and design for what will be a new and vibrant academic space," said President Diana Chapman Walsh.

To read more about the Humanities Center and other initiatives being supported through The Wellesley Campaign, visit http://www.wellesley.edu/Resources/

Two Seniors Win Prestigious Watson Fellowships -- Wellesley College seniors Jennifer Carlile of Edgewood, Washington, and Suzanne Slezak of Free Union, Virginia, are two of 48 U.S. college students who have been awarded 2003-2004 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for independent research while traveling outside the United States. Nearly 1,000 students applied for the award, which includes a stipend of $22,000. With their selection, 43 Wellesley students have been named Watson Fellows since 1981 when the College became a participating institution in the program.

Carlile will travel to the Netherlands, Italy and Austria to work with several groups on her project, "Multimedia Technology in Experimental Theater and Performance Art." "I'll be doing everything from writing code for computer graphics to writing music to be included in monthly concerts," explained Carlile. Slezak's project is entitled "Spinning Around the World: Exploring Hand Spinning with Natural Fibers." She will learn spinning techniques in Guatemala, Ireland, India, Thailand and New Zealand and will study the historical, socio-economic, and gendered perspectives of spinning.

To learn more about these remarkable Wellesley women, click on http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/040203.html

Wellesley Launches Web Forum Partnership -- Do you ever wish you could sit in on one more lecture by a Wellesley College faculty member? The opportunity is here. Through Wellesley's new partnership with WGBH, Boston's public television network, anyone with an Internet connection and free software now can enjoy some of the College's many academic events.

Wellesley is one of about 20 of the area's leading cultural and educational organizations that is making some of its lectures available online to the public, in both video and audio, via the WGBH Forum Network. The College's first offering is a recent lecture-recital by Triple Helix, a piano trio who are Wellesley's artists-in-residence, and Professor of English Larry Rosenwald. "Charles Ives and the Spirit of Transcendentalist New England" is a performance by Triple Helix of Ives' Second Violin Sonata with intermittent and lively discussion of the composer and his piano trio.

In the coming months, the College will add more offerings to the Forum Network, including several faculty lectures from Reunion. Stay tuned for "Escape to the Middle Ages: Why Tolkien? Why Now?" by Katherine Lynch, English; "Games We Play - An Introduction to Game Theory" by Sue Skeath, economics; and "Dwelling and Seeking: Two Pathways to Successful Aging" by Paul Wink, psychology.

To hear and watch Wellesley's debut on the WGBH Forum Network, visit http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/ and click on "Wellesley College" in the left column.





	~Wellesley Wire - 2003~

	Wellesley Wire May 16, 2003 Wellesley Receives $10 Million Gift for Humanities Center Two Seniors Win Prestigious Watson Fellowships Wellesley Launches Web Forum Partnership Wellesley Receives $10 Million Gift For Humanities Center -- Donald and Susan Marley Newhouse '55 have pledged $10 million to create and name a humanities center at Wellesley, one of the academic priorities of The Wellesley Campaign. Half of the gift will be used for capital construction and equipment for the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities and half will endow faculty salaries and academic program support. The gift will permanently endow a visiting associate professor of creative writing and a director for the Center and will create endowment support for faculty programming and administrative costs associated with the Center. The capital portion of the gift enables the College to launch the planning process for the most suitable location and architectural design for the center. "This very generous gift from two ardent Wellesley supporters -- both of whom love writing, words, art, architecture, and all things beautiful -- makes it possible for us to move forward with the planning and design for what will be a new and vibrant academic space," said President Diana Chapman Walsh. To read more about the Humanities Center and other initiatives being supported through The Wellesley Campaign, visit http://www.wellesley.edu/Resources/ Two Seniors Win Prestigious Watson Fellowships -- Wellesley College seniors Jennifer Carlile of Edgewood, Washington, and Suzanne Slezak of Free Union, Virginia, are two of 48 U.S. college students who have been awarded 2003-2004 Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for independent research while traveling outside the United States. Nearly 1,000 students applied for the award, which includes a stipend of $22,000. With their selection, 43 Wellesley students have been named Watson Fellows since 1981 when the College became a participating institution in the program. Carlile will travel to the Netherlands, Italy and Austria to work with several groups on her project, "Multimedia Technology in Experimental Theater and Performance Art." "I'll be doing everything from writing code for computer graphics to writing music to be included in monthly concerts," explained Carlile. Slezak's project is entitled "Spinning Around the World: Exploring Hand Spinning with Natural Fibers." She will learn spinning techniques in Guatemala, Ireland, India, Thailand and New Zealand and will study the historical, socio-economic, and gendered perspectives of spinning. To learn more about these remarkable Wellesley women, click on http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2003/040203.html Wellesley Launches Web Forum Partnership -- Do you ever wish you could sit in on one more lecture by a Wellesley College faculty member? The opportunity is here. Through Wellesley's new partnership with WGBH, Boston's public television network, anyone with an Internet connection and free software now can enjoy some of the College's many academic events. Wellesley is one of about 20 of the area's leading cultural and educational organizations that is making some of its lectures available online to the public, in both video and audio, via the WGBH Forum Network. The College's first offering is a recent lecture-recital by Triple Helix, a piano trio who are Wellesley's artists-in-residence, and Professor of English Larry Rosenwald. "Charles Ives and the Spirit of Transcendentalist New England" is a performance by Triple Helix of Ives' Second Violin Sonata with intermittent and lively discussion of the composer and his piano trio. In the coming months, the College will add more offerings to the Forum Network, including several faculty lectures from Reunion. Stay tuned for "Escape to the Middle Ages: Why Tolkien? Why Now?" by Katherine Lynch, English; "Games We Play - An Introduction to Game Theory" by Sue Skeath, economics; and "Dwelling and Seeking: Two Pathways to Successful Aging" by Paul Wink, psychology. To hear and watch Wellesley's debut on the WGBH Forum Network, visit http://streams.wgbh.org/forum/ and click on "Wellesley College" in the left column. Back to top Back to the Wellesley Wire Homepage

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May 16, 2003