Emily Leff is studying abroad in India and has these pictures to share from Varanasi.
Both of these photos taken at Assi Ghat in Varanasi, India. The body of water in the photos is the Ganges River. The ghats are where people tend to hang out casually but also perform daily rituals (puja) in the mornings and evenings—the Ganga is considered holy water.
Hannah Reale is studying abroad in Spain and has these photos to share.
A concert photo from DCODE, taken on the campus of Universidad Complutense de Madrid. DCODE is an annual music festival that features artists from all over the world, usually including a few from the U.S. (this year, Bastille and Imagine Dragons drew huge crowds).
The gardens at Museo Sorolla. Museo Sorolla is a small museum in Madrid that shows off Joaquín Sorolla’s work, a Spanish Impressionist painter who was popular around the turn of the century. The building itself used to be Sorolla’s home.
Bilbao, taken at the Mirador de Artxanda. The vista at Mirador de Artxanda provides a great view of the whole city, and has a hilarious fence that says “BilbaoBilbaoBilbao” over and over again to keep people from getting too close to the edge.
Emmy Hughes, who is studying abroad in Scotland, has these photos to share
A white house from the seaside fishing village of Anstruther, a few miles from the University of St. Andrews.
Rock formations by the water, also near Anstruther.
Sandstone rock formations by the sea in the town of St. Andrews. Can you tell Emmy is an Earth & Environmental Sciences major?
The gorgeous west sands, where the running scene from Chariots of Fire was filmed.
Presenters:
Ellen Thomas is the Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History, the Harold T Stearns Professor of Integrated Sciences, and Research Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her research interests are focused on reconstructions of past oceanic environments and ecosystems.
Ann C. Burke is Professor and Chair of the Biology Department. Her research interests are in the development and evolution of vertebrates, and the developmental sources of morphological variation.
Last year, the Office of Admission welcomed over 13,000 visitors to campus! Tour guides are often the first, and sometimes the only, interaction a family will have with a Wesleyan representative while here. Are you up for the challenge.
The Tour Guide position is an opportunity for students of all majors to support the recruitment efforts of the Office of Admission. We seek 15-20 new guides who are mature, dependable, energetic, articulate, positive, outgoing and eager to share their Wesleyan experience.
The position is open to students in the class of 2020, 2021 and 2022 who are in good academic standing. Compensation will be based on campus work study pay rates, although you do not need to be eligible for work study to apply.
IMPORTANT DATES:
To apply, go to https://goo.gl/forms/EeEset9XXUMszG1B2. The deadline is Sunday, October 14 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
Careers for the Common Good: a panel discussion about meaningful work after Wesleyan
Monday, October 1
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
Gordon Career Center
Panelists:
Ila Shah ’00, Managing Director at College of Social Innovation. She has worked in talent acquisition for non-profit organizations across the U.S. in areas such as education, healthcare, and philanthropy.
Wesleyan Major: Government
Kalia Lydgate ’07, National Coordinator at Dream Corps, a non-profit founded by Van Jones that is committed to social justice causes.
Wesleyan Major: University Major/Social Ecology
Leslie Gabel-Brett ’76, Consultant at Gabel-Brett Consulting, which offers strategy, planning and communications for the public and nonprofit sectors. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life at Wesleyan.
Wesleyan Major: Psychology
Ron Brone, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Director of Residential Care at the Albert J. Solnit Center, Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility for adolescent girls. He also serves as adjunct faculty at Fairfield University and Middlesex Community College.
Moderator:
Anthony Price ’20, Founder, Be The Change Venture
Sponsored by the Gordon Career Center and the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Registration on Handshake is encouraged: https://wesleyan.joinhandshake.com/events/211718/share_preview
For courses with a “Student Option” grading mode, the deadline to change the grading mode is Friday, 9/28 at 5:00p.m.
To review the grading modes for the courses in your schedule, login to WesPortal and click on “Class Schedule.” The “Grade” column will indicate the current grading mode for the course. For courses that are “Student Option,” a drop down menu is available through which the grading mode can be changed.
A paper form is no longer required to change grading mode.
Melisa Olgun, who is studying abroad in Denmark this semester, shares these photos from Scandanavia.
Taken at ARoS Museum in Aarhus, Denmark. Entitled “Your rainbow panorama,” the work is a permanent installment at the art museum.
Taken in Malmö, Sweden, with her host sister, Amalie.
Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark a famous harbor and tourist spot.
ITS is undergoing an external review. We have hired an outside firm that specializes in working with higher ed institutions to help us:
Student input is important to this process and the consultants have setup two open forums for students:
Monday, Sep 17, 12:10-1:20 South College B2/B3 Pizza will be served
Tuesday, Sep 18, 3:00-3:45 South College B2/B3 Cookies will be served
Drop by either one to share your thoughts. The consultants will be asking questions to get your feedback.
Accelerate: Prepare for Fall Recruiting
Friday, September 14th • 10am – 1pm
Lunch Provided
Accelerate is a job search boot camp for seniors and juniors planning on applying for positions via the Gordon Career Center’s Fall On-Campus Recruiting program. It is intended to provide you will real time guidance in order to prepare for interviews and evaluate offers of employment. Lunch will be served and will include Q&A with GCC staff. The workshop will be led by the Director of the Gordon Career Center, Sharon Belden Castonguay.
Register on Handshake: https://wesleyan.joinhandshake.com/events/186290/share_preview
For more information, please contact
Rachel M. Munafo
Associate Director of PR & Communications
Gordon Career Center • Wesleyan University
860.685.2180 • rmunafo@wesleyan.edu
Alberto Encinas is studying in Italy this semester and shares this photo of the view from the top of “Le Due Torre,” the highest point in Bologna.
