by Nataly Huyhua Earlier this week, on Monday, April 15th, a thought-provoking lecture titled “Spain is Not OnlyWhite: National Identity in the 21st Century” provided an exploration of Spain’s evolvingidentity in the modern era. Dr. Jeffrey Coleman’s lecture discussed Spain’s demographic shifts, particularly the profound impact ofmass migration since the 1990s. While Spain has long…
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Finding Community in Kenya
Watson Fellow Livia Cox ’22 Studies Pain
by Miki Lynch What is pain? Why do we experience pain? Is pain perceived the same way across different cultures? To answer these questions one might ask Livia Cox ‘22, a Thomas J. Watson awardee who spent her fellowship year studying the connection between cultural, political, and social definitions of pain. The Watson fellowship is…
Full-Scale War Anniversary: Why Continuing to Help Ukraine Matters
by Oleksandra Volakova On February 24, 2022, Ukraine shuddered with the bombing, shootings, crying, and screaming. A real war, usually practiced in history books and movies, was witnessed by civilians the hard way, with their habitat destroyed along with the dreams and hopes they held for the future. For the past two years, Ukraine has…
Wesleyan student Diana Kimojino’s “Nailepu Foundation”: Making Strides for Educational Equity in Kenyan Communities
by Julia Gardner When Diana Kimojino graduated from high school in Kenya in 2019, she was excited to continue her education at college the next year. However, she began to notice a very different trend among her peers: right after graduating high school, all of the girls that she had grown up with were getting…
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Computational Neuroscience Research in India
by Tasmiah Akter For two months this summer, Maryam Badr ‘25 traveled to the Shiv Nadar University in Greater Noida, India to do computational neuroscience research on hippocampal place cells with Dr. Sachin Deshmukh in the Department of Life Sciences. Maryam chose to take on this endeavor due to her passion for science, medicine, and…
Visit from a Watson Fellow: World Travels of Livia Cox, ’22
Tuesday Nov 14 at 4:30pm, Fisk 201 The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, open to Wesleyan seniors, allows a group of daring young leaders from select US colleges and universities to travel the world for a year after graduation, pursuing a project of their own design, centered on their own personal passions. As a Watson Fellow,…
Mooncakes, Karaoke, and Belonging: The Chinese Cultural Club’s Mid-Autumn Festival
by Beatrice Oey, Chair of CCC Last Friday, on September 29th, our community came together to celebrate the enchanting Mid-Autumn Festival, and what a wonderful evening it was! The event was a heartwarming blend of cultural traditions, delicious mooncakes, lively karaoke, and entertaining skits that left everyone with cherished memories. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a…
A Summer in the Rainforest
by Tasmiah Akter For most people, the idea of a rainforest may elicit a scene something along these lines: mud-caked shoes, towering trees, sprawling greenery, multicolored flowers, humid air, poisonous tree frogs, etc. When students Tamira Le ‘26, Josie Dickman ‘26, Cecilia (Sissi) Briana Foldessy-Stiegemeier ‘26, Julia Augustyn ‘25, and Emma Knapp ‘25 went to…