Written by Genesis Garcia ‘22 First Row (left to right): Kai Burton, Lupita Sanchez, Jesse Simmons, Pablo Wickham, Sophie Talcove-Berko, and Sarah Shehreen Second Row (left to right): Lizzie Edwards, Alice Swan, Nour-Saïda Harzallah, Lexi Cummings, and Will Briskin Third Row: Tessa Zitter, Grace Lopez, Akanksha Kalasabail, Jace Arouet, Indigo Pellegrini de Paur, and Julio…
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What is “CLAC”? The Communist Experience in Russian
We at Wesleyan are now entering the third year of offering “Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum” (or CLAC) courses. These are courses taught in languages other than English, all of which provide students and faculty across the campus with opportunities to deepen their engagement with their subjects through the use and further development of…
Wes and the World Photo Contest 2020
Each year the Fries Center for Global Studies asks Wesleyan students who have had any global experience over the previous year to submit photographs to the annual Wes and the World Photo Contest. We are especially interested in submissions from study abroad returnees, international students, exchange students, fellowship recipients, and foreign language teaching assistants, but all students in the…
So Long, Farewell: A Chat with Recent Graduate Zheng Mao ’20
Zheng Mao ’20 is a Freeman Asian Scholar from Chengdu, China. He triple-majored in Mathematics, Economics, and Environmental Studies, and upon graduation, he joined Citigroup Global Markets in New York as a Sales and Trading analyst. He plans to join the commodity trading and research desk and further explore his interests in energy studies. During…
Writing Through: Wesleyan alum-started organization that Encourages Creative Writing
As the world changed drastically because of Covid, my life as an international student at Wesleyan also got shaken to its core: I’m now on a desolate campus where my most beloved friends are no longer here with me for an infinite period of time. Many feelings flooded me; perhaps too many, so that it…
Katerina Ramos-Jordán ’21 Awarded the Beinecke Scholarship
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…
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…