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Day: January 20, 2010

Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WOMEN RETURN TO WES

For most of Wesleyan’s first century and a half, the issue of whether men and women should be educated together seemed to be considered in forty–year time periods. From 1831 to 1871, all male. From 1872 to 1912, coeducational. From 1913 to 1955, resolutely all male, with no plans for coeducation. Bu…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Center for Humanities Celebrates 50 Years

  At a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Center for the Humanities this fall, Professor of English and American Studies Sean McCann told a story about a dinner in 1967 honoring Paul Horgan, who was steppin…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Diana Diamond ’70 Wants Your Memories

Specifically, she wants your memories of Wesleyan in the late ’60s, early ’70s.   A clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, Diamond has undertaken a project both professionally and personally meaningful…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Trustee Families Donate $22 Million

Two Board of Trustees’ families have given Wesleyan $22 million, including a $12 million gift by the family of Board Chairman Joshua Boger ’73, P’06, P’09.   The gifts will benefit financial aid and Wesleyan’s end…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Whalen ’83 Named Head Coach of Wesleyan Football

Mike Whalen ’83 has been named assistant athletic director and head coach of Wesleyan University’s football team. He assumed this post on April 1.   Whalen, the 2006 NESCAC Coach of the year, comes to Wesleyan fro…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Applications Hit Another Record

This year, not only did applications for admission hit a record 10,656, but Wesleyan saw also a record–setting selectivity of 20 percent, compared to 27 percent just two years ago.   “Last year we reached an all–t…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Viggiani: Remembered as “Un Juste”

Carl Viggiani, professor of Romance languages and literatures, emeritus, died Jan. 16, 2010. He was 87 years old. He joined the Wesleyan faculty in 1954, teaching French language and literature. Active in the Center for …
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Perkins ’09 Awarded Rhodes Scholarship

Russell Perkins ’09, a high honors graduate from Evanston, Ill., and COL major, has been awarded a 2010 Rhodes Scholarship.   Perkins co–founded Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education, which offers Wesleyan course…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Shapiro Receives Translation Award

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has presented the 2009 National Translation Award to Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, for French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Dist…
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Category 2010 Issue 1Posted on January 20, 2010April 16, 2014

Wesleyan Hosts First WSJ/Unigo Webcast

  Wesleyan hosted the first Wall Street Journal/Unigo webcast on Dec. 2 in the Usdan University Center. This event, an interactive panel on admissions, featured the chief admissions officers from Wesleyan, Princeto…
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