Financial Aid Application for Summer Session 2019 Now Open

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To access the 7-question application, login to portal and navigate to: Courses > Summer Session > Financial Aid.

Here is the financial aid application calendar:

  • Applications open: February 1, 2019
  • Cutoff for first award letter: February 22, 2019
  • First award email: February 26, 2019
  • Registration opens: March 6, 2019
  • Applications close: NOON April 19, 2019.  This deadline is firm; no exceptions are granted as processing of applications begins at 12:01 April 19
  • Final award email: April 23, 2019

Contact summer@wesleyan.edu if you have any questions.

Looking for Funding for your Unpaid or Low-paid Summer Experience?

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The 2019 Wesleyan Summer Grants Program will be accepting applications from January 28th – February 28th, 11:59pm.

Wesleyan Summer Grants are funding resources awarded through the Gordon Career Center which allow students to pursue no- or low-paid career-related summer experiences. Experiential learning opportunities can be both in the U.S. and abroad and include career-related opportunities such as internships, faculty-mentored research, language study, volunteer work, field study, and academic programs.

The Gordon Career Center will be holding four information sessions which will cover funding opportunities, eligibility and requirements, navigating the application process, and what makes a strong application. All sessions will conclude with a Q&A.
01.29 – WSG Information Session, 12:00pm, Career Center
02.01 – WSG Information Session, 12:15pm, Career Center
02.07 – WSG Information Session, 12:00pm, Career Center
02.11 – WSG Information Session, 12:15pm, Career Center

The list of available grants and the application can be accessed on AcademicWorks through WesPortal. For more information about the application process, please visit the Gordon Career Center website.

Don’t know where to begin or need help with your application? Schedule an appointment to meet with a career advisor.

Apply for a Writing Mentor

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Have you ever wanted consistent help with your writing? Do you have a full course load this semester and need support? Would you benefit from having a peer tutor dedicated to helping you with your assignments on a consistent basis? If so, apply for a Writing Mentor! Mentors are Wesleyan students who are specifically trained to help peers with their writing. If matched with a Mentor, you will meet with them once a week for 45-minutes and work on your assignments at any stage in the writing process. This service is completely free, and successfully matched mentees will be given 0.25 credits for working with a Writing Mentor.

Please apply here, by Wednesday, February 6th at 5PM. You will be notified directly about your mentee status through email. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the Ford Fellow, Dache Rogers, at writingworks@wesleyan.edu.

Special Dance Offerings Spring 2019

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DANC251.01 (.5 credit).  Javanese Dance  (Dance/Southeast Asian Studies Certificate) no prerequisites.  
Instruction in the classical dance of central Java will begin with the basic movement vocabulary and proceed to the study of dance repertoires. At the end of the semester, an informal recital will be arranged with the accompaniment of live gamelan music. Emphasis is on the female style.

DANC378 (1 credit).  Repertory and Performance: Understanding migration/immigration through performance  (Dance/Queer Studies Cluster) no prerequisites
This course examines choreography and its performance as an embodied experience. Students will research a theme-specific topic and participate in the creation of a contemporary work under the direction, guidance, and mentorship of a faculty choreographer. The class will serve as a laboratory for experimenting with the performance techniques and evolving methodologies of the teaching artist, preparing the student for the practice of embodied research. The work will use video projections. The course culminates in the performance of the work developed during the semester of study.

DANC300 (.5 credit).  Contemporary Dance Technique 
Drawing on multiple approaches to dance techniques and the moving body, this course will build on capacities developed in Contemporary Dance 1. Students will be encouraged to cultivate greater awareness of space, time, rhythm, corporal navigation and energy, as well as a wider range of dynamic variation and more sophisticated understanding of kinetic alignment.

Audition Notice for Spring 2019 Production of “Eurydice”

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EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Corey Sorenson

(Please note change of title – this will replace the previously announced production of Myth in Performance)

Come be a part of what the New York Times described as “Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play – an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory.” In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.Eurydice has been performed around the country, as well as off-Broadway, and won the 2003 Whiting Award for Drama.

All Wesleyan students are encouraged to audition!!  (Cast of 7 to 8 people)

AUDITION INFORMATION:

Preliminary Audition:
Monday – January 28 (6-9pm) in the basement Studio of the Theater Building (TST 001)
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue. All people interested in acting in the show must attend the first audition.

Callback Audition:
Wednesday – January 30 (6-9pm) in the basement Studio of the Theater Building (TST 001). For callback auditions, sides from the script will be provided.

An electronic version of the script is available. Please email Dawn Alger for access at: dalger@wesleyan.edu. A link to audition sign-up form will be sent out mid-January.

Rehearsals will begin on Monday, February 25; Performance Dates: April 12-14 in the CFA Theater.  Questions about auditions should be directed to Stage Manager, Isabel Algrant: ialgrant@wesleyan.edu

 

Photos from Europe

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Luke Forsthoefel is studying at UCL in London this semester and has the photos to share from his travels.

In front of Tower Bridge in London.

Posing in front of the Thames and the Shard in the background in London.

Doing some climbing in an activity called Via Ferrata in the Lake District of Northern England.

West Minster Abbey

At the summit of a hike at Montserrat in Spain. The Pyrenees are in the background.

A nice view of Barcelona in Gaudí’s Parc Guel.

Thinking about Writing a Senior Thesis?

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Thinking about writing a senior thesis? Not sure where to start? This panel discussion will provide you with an opportunity to gain insight from professors about how to prepare for writing a thesis, how to choose a topic, and what factors you should take into account when making the decision to undertake a thesis.

Whether you already know your topic, or are just beginning to explore the possibility of a thesis, now is a great time to start get your bearings.

Please join us in a conversation with Dean Phillips and Professors Sean McCann (English), Joe Rouse (Philosophy and Science in Society) and Martha Gilmore (Earth & Environmental Science) for insights into the whys and wherefores of undertaking a thesis.

Tuesday, December 4, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
PAC 002

Please RSVP through this link.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Course Withdrawal Deadline this Friday 11/30 5pm

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The last day to withdraw from full-semester and second-quarter classes for the Fall 2018 semester is Friday, November 30.  Completed forms are due in the Registrar’s Office by 5:00 p.m. and must include the following signatures: instructor, faculty advisor, and class dean.

If you are thinking about withdrawing from a course:

  • Do use this time to talk to your professors, your advisors, and me about your concerns. If you can’t make my drop-ins, please email me at dphillips@wesleyan.edu or call me at x2757 to schedule an appointment.
  • Do make sure you are taking advantage of all the resources available to you.
  • Do get the signatures of your instructor and advisor on your drop/add form. I cannot sign for either without his or her permission, so please save yourself the trouble of waiting to see me during drop-ins just for me to tell you that.
  • Do not wait until Friday at 4:00 p.m. to see me or you may find yourself waiting in a very long line!

Drop-in Hours: M 2-3, Tu 3-4, W 4-6, Th 11-12, F 2-4

Evolution of Infectious Consumers and the Integrated Control of Schistosomiasis 12/3

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Human schistosomiasis affects about 200-300 million people worldwide, with chronic morbidity and substantial mortality. Join evolutionary biologist Dr. Armand Kuris as he discusses the breakdown of coevolution and thresholds of transmission controls of public health mitigation of such diseases and shares his work in Kenya and Senegal, where his team has shown that transmission control through predation on the snail intermediate hosts may be necessary to achieve elimination of human schistosomiasis in Africa.

Dr. Kuris is the Charles Storke II Chair in Ecology and Professor of Zoology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

RISE Professional Development Series for Students of Color

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In solidarity with students of color, the Office for Student Activities and Leadership Development (SALD) and the Gordon Career Center are hosting a four-part professional development series for students of color interested in pursuing higher education–the Rise: Higher Education Leadership Series for People of Color.

Thursday 11/15, 5-7pm
RISE: Pre-Law Seminar featuring Shana Simmons ’03, Corporate Counsel at Google and Wesleyan Board of Trustee Member
Dinner will be provided at 5 pm, and the event will begin at 5:30! Register here:https://goo.gl/forms/TsEaK3xEJkKWylWq1

Come be in community and hear from keynote speaker Shana Simmons ’03 discuss her lived experiences in pursuing higher education in the legal field: microaggressions, application processes, how to utilize your undergrad experience to the fullest extent, and more will be discussed!

Shana is a corporate counsel at Google Inc., where she manages a team that supports Google’s growing Cloud business and also brings her commitment to diversity and inclusion to the work place. Before Google, she was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Stein and Hamilton LLP in its New York and London offices. Shana received a law degree from University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served as the diversity editor of the California Law Review, development editor of the Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy, and co-president of the Law Students of African Descent. While in law school, Shana also interned at the East Bay Community Law Center, where she focused on projects that would empower low-income communities of color to build long-term solutions to poverty through the advancement of community-owned cooperative businesses and affordable housing. Before law school, Shana taught for three years (one year in Washington, DC, at a public charter high school geared towards disadvantaged black youth and the next two years at the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, California, where her seventh-grade students received the highest scores in Alameda County on the standardized state math tests). Shana was recognized in 2009 for her work with Oakland youth with a proclamation from the Mayor of Oakland.

Shana has served on the boards of the YMCA of the East Bay and Harlem Week, Inc., and currently sits on the board of Lawyers for One America.

At Wesleyan: Shana was a College of Social Studies major and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. She was an active contributor to the student of color community on campus, served in leadership positions with Ujamaa, the Student of Color Council, and she also coordinated the Students of Color Pre-Frosh Weekend during her four years at Wesleyan, receiving the Vanguard Prize for her efforts. She was a resident advisor in Malcolm X House and WestCo, and the head resident of the Affinity Program Houses. She was also a senior interviewer.

Friday 11/16, 5-7pm, Gordon Career Center
RISE: Graduate School Seminar
Dinner will be provided at 5 pm, and the event will begin at 5:30! Register here:https://goo.gl/forms/TsEaK3xEJkKWylWq1

Come be in community and hear from alum of color discuss their lived experiences in pursuing higher education health professions: microaggressions, application processes, how to utilize your undergrad experience to the fullest extent, and more will be discussed!

Panelists include:

Renee Johnson-Thornton ’05, PhD, Dean of Class of 2022 at Wesleyan University
Elsa Hardy ’14, Graduate Student at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Julissa Pena ’12, Senior Registration & Financial Analyst, SSC, Office of the University Registrar at Columbia University
LaNell Williams ’15, Ph.D. Candidate Harvard University

McNair Program Recruiting STEM Majors

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Eligibility Requirements

  • 2nd and 3rd-Year STEM majors who are interested in pursuing a PhD
  • US citizen or Permanent Resident
  • First-generation to attend college & low income and/or
  • Groups underrepresented in STEM fields (Hispanic/Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; females not considered underrepresented)

Apply at: http://www.wesleyan.edu/mcnair
Application review begins Friday, November 16.