by Anita Deeg-Carlin, Director of Intercultural Learning Iracambí, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a rainforest research center that is becoming steadily more familiar to our community as Wes students spend their summers interning there. Minas Gerais literally translates to “General Mines” and is an area historically known and mined for its mineral wealth.…
Research
Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part IV:STEM & Health
by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learningat the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and oftenmultilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the last part of the four partseries where we spent time highlighting different topics…
Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part III: Identity: Cultural & Religious
by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learning at the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and often multilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the third of a four part series to be highlighted in the…
Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part II: Economics & Environment
by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learning at the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and often multilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the second of a four part series to be highlighted in the…
Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part I: World Literature
by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learning at the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and often multilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the first of a four part series to be highlighted in the…
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…
Iracambí: Summer Research in Brazil Information Session
by Anita Deeg-Carlin This past Monday, the Office for Intercultural Learning hosted an info session about Iracambi Research Center in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. Returned students Tamira Le ’26, Cecilia Foldessy-Stiegemeier ’26, and Josie Dickman ’26, shared their inspiring and entertaining experiences from last summer. Volunteer and Research Coordinator Patanjaly Barbosa de Andrade…
A Green Political Economy Conference
Professor Basak Kus organized a conference in cooperation with scholars from Freie University in Berlin on the topic of green political economy. Throughout the three-day conference, panelists from various universities worldwide engaged in discussions on theories of degrowth and post-growth, green new deals, the politics of decarbonization, and the involvement of governments, labor, and business…
Wesleyan/DIS Alumni Co-Author Research on HIV and Access to Fertility Treatment Across Europe
Dr. Rachel Irwin, a professor at Lund University in Sweden and DIS research mentor in Copenhagen, recently published her research “HIV and access to fertility treatment in the European and Swedish Contexts”. The article was co-authored by two Wesleyan students, Julia Thaler and Karli Gigstad, who studied abroad with DIS in the Spring of 2022.…
Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics
In the Fries Center for Global Studies, part of our mission is to “expand opportunities for all students and faculty wishing to pursue a global perspective in the field of their choice, both on campus and abroad,” as well as to “support international faculty research and creative practice, both on-going and especially for individuals developing…