Written by Olivia Drake, first published in The Wesleyan Connection Katerina Ramos-Jordán ’21 is the recipient of a Beinecke Scholarship, which will support her graduate career and her academic goal of becoming a cultural studies scholar. She’s among 18 college undergraduates nationwide to receive the honor, and she’s the first Wesleyan student to receive the award in…
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From One Crisis to Another: A Dispatch on the Effects of University Responses to COVID-19 on Low-Income Undergraduates
By Heather Cassell ’23 An earthquake, the shifting of tectonic plates, has the potential to either disrupt a Sunday brunch or devastate entire societies. It all depends on how stable and secure the structures in place. If you felt a 7.0 quake in California, you might feel your house shake or watch buildings sway. A…
Fulbright Feature: Jed Munson ’19
Jed Munson ‘19, who majored in English with a minor in the College of East Asian Studies, won a Fulbright creative arts grant to South Korea. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a federally funded program established by Senator J. William Fulbright after World War II to promote “international good will through the exchange of…
Returns and Reflections: Emma Distler ’19 on her Fulbright Experience in Italy
Ciao a tutti! Hello everyone! Our world has undoubtedly turned upside down due to Covid-19; however, prior to the pandemic I was fortunate to have had my Fulbright experience abroad in Sicily as an English Teaching Assistant at a specialized Italian high school, Istituto Tecnico Borghese-Faranda. Throughout the school year, I was placed in a…
Fulbright Feature: Abe Kipnis ’19
Written by Abe Kipnis ’19 with Inayah Bashir Abe Kipnis ‘19, a physics and College of Integrative Sciences major, won a Fulbright grant to Finland for 2020-2021 to pursue a Master’s degree in Computational Engineering and Technical Physics at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT). (Click to read about Wesleyan’s other 2020 Fulbrighters). The Fulbright…
6 Alumni Win Fulbright Grants; 2 Named Alternates
Written by Magdalena Zapędowska [za-pen-doff-ska] Top: Abe Kipnis ’19, Afrah Boateng ’20, Ananya Subrahmanian ’18, Anthony Price ’20 Bottom: Gustavo Sanabria ’19, Inayah Bashir ’20, Jed Munson ’19, Nicole McCann ’18 Congratulations to the six Wesleyan alumni who won Fulbright grants this year! Inayah Bashir ’20, who majored in the College of Social Studies, won…
Fellowship Spotlight: The Udall Scholarship
Written by Inayah Bashir ’20 Gabriel Snashall ’20 Shaya Tousi ’21 The Udall Foundation, established by the U.S. Congress in 1992, is an independent executive branch agency to honor Morris K. Udall’s impact on America’s environment, public lands, natural resources, and his support of the rights of…
“I’m Sorry But–” a poem by Sam Meagher ’21
My name’s Samantha Meagher. I’m from New Jersey. I’m a rising senior with a double major in Sociology and HISP. I wrote this poem because Wesleyan is a place that has allowed me to form deep connections and learn so much more about myself. It feels awful to be torn away from it so abruptly…
Returns and Reflections: Wesleyan’s 2019 Fulbright Scholars Speak About their Experiences
Katie Murray I’m from the class of 2019, my majors were Government and Hispanic Literature and Culture and I received an English Teaching Assistantship to the Canary Islands. It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but my experience was better than I had ever imagined. The best part for me was getting to know a…
A Brief Snapshot of Life as a Remote Student Worker
My name is Sophie, I’m a sophomore at Wesleyan, a freshly declared Italian Studies major, and a student employee for the Fries Center for Global Studies and the Office of Study Abroad. Over the spring semester I, along with my peers and coworkers, have been preparing for next fall abroad. My peers and I have…