Study abroad in spring 2020 was certainly not what any of our students expected. The Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris celebrated the end of its semester on April 24 with a reception, held, of course, on Zoom. Vassar Professor Vinay Swamy, who was Resident Director of the program for 2019-2020, provided some highlights for students who…
Written by Kennedy Odede ’12 When Covid-19 hits Africa, will we be ready? This was a distant thought just one month ago. Now, as cases climb, we are braced for impact. As the crisis deepens in the world’s largest economies, taking up most of the media bandwidth, Africa hardly makes the headlines. In international news…
Written by Amad Amedy ’19 I woke up in my apartment on the morning of March 12 to a phone flooded with messages from friends in the US. President Trump had announced a travel ban on people living in the European Union. Suddenly a wave of panic and uncertainty overwhelmed me. I was in Barcelona,…
Contributed by Inayah Bashir ’20 On Wednesday, February 12, a few students of color gathered at the Resource Center for a panel discussion about the process of applying to fellowships. The event was co-sponsored by the Fries Center for Global Studies. Three women of color who are current fellowship applicants spoke candidly about their experience…
WesInAction is a group of Wesleyan students concerned about the Coronavirus (nCoV-2019) and its impact on the Wesleyan community. Students who are involved in this project include Huiqin Hu ’20, Maria Tan ’22, Oliver Cho ’22, Shaoxuan Tian ’22, Shuo Wang ’20, Linus Mao ’23, Sanni Zhang ’22, Tianxin Chen ’21, Zhuo Chen ’20, Jinjia…
Wesleyan-Fudan Summer Session: The Foundations of Cinema Wesleyan-Fudan Summer Session: The Foundations of Cinema In conjunction with Fudan University’s International Summer Session in Shanghai, China, Wesleyan is offering a one credit Film Studies course taught by our own Professor Lisa A. Dombrowski. “The Foundations of Cinema” is a 24-person, seminar-style immersion in narrative and stylistic analysis…
My name is Nick Sng and I’m a Freeman Asian Scholar from Singapore. My major is still undecided, but I’m thinking of pursuing a University Major in Human-Centered Design, combining courses from Psychology, Studio Art, Anthropology, Computer Science and IDEAS. I work at the Fries Center for Global Studies as a Media Assistant, assisting TAs…
Written by Inayah Bashir ‘20 On Thursday, November 21, 2019, FCGS celebrated International Education Week by highlighting how students can use fellowships to develop international experiences. Using Fellowships to Build Your Global Experience was an afternoon panel featuring students who have completed the fellowship application process this Fall. Three student panelists and a student moderator…
As the Fall 2019 semester draws to a close and students eagerly await their seasonal (and well earned) reprieve, the Office of Study Abroad would like to bring students’ attention to early deadlines for some Fall 2020 and full academic year programs. As students may know, the deadlines for completing Wesleyan’s permission to study abroad for the 2020 Fall/Year are…
Hi, my name is Lexi and I’m a junior at Wesleyan majoring in Psychology. This past summer I had the opportunity of a lifetime to study abroad to Italy for a little over a month during the summer. Through this incredible opportunity I traveled with a group of people, mostly from different SUNY universities as…
