2019 Summer Sustainability Fellowships

2019 Summer Sustainability Fellowships
Renewable Thermal Strategy hosted by the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Net Zero Roadmap Implementation hosted by the Burlington Electric Department
Comprehensive Solar Implementation Roadmap hosted by the town of Hanover, New Hampshire
Renewable Energy Research and Planning hosted by Hypertherm, Inc.
Reducing Commercial Sector Emissions hosted by the town of Concord, Massachusetts
Municipal Greenhouse Gas Inventory hosted by the city of Lebanon, New Hampshire
Municipal Greenhouse Gas Inventory hosted by the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Climate Action Planning hosted by the University of New Hampshire’s Energy Task Force
Campus Zero Waste Planning hosted by the Post-Landfill Action Network
Flood-Induced Roadway Damage – Risk Analysis hosted by the UNH Center for Infrastructure Resilience to Climate
Sustainable Middletown hosted by the city of Middletown, CT & Wesleyan University
Health Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation Activities hosted by the Vermont Department of Public Health
Growing a Farmers’ Market in South Providence hosted by the African Alliance of Rhode Island
Sustainable Food System Documentaries hosted by Food Solutions New England & NH Food Alliance
Sustainable Development as an Alternative to Military Intervention hosted by Peace Rising

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What is the Sustainability Fellowship Program?
UNH Sustainability Fellowships pair outstanding students with organizations and communities across New England to work on transformative projects that propel us towards a sustainable, resilient future. The program runs for 10 weeks during the summer. Fellows receive mentorship from professionals in their field, have the opportunity to make a real impact with their work, and become part of a growing network of sustainability leaders.

Why should you apply?
New skills and knowledge
Access to extensive professional contacts and networks
Compelling projects to build your professional portfolio
$6500 stipend
Accomplish meaningful work
Become part of a professional community that shares your interests and goals
Who should apply?
Graduate and upper-class undergraduate students from any accredited college or university
Students and recent graduates from all disciplines interested in a sustainability career
Please submit your application by February 7, 2019 at midnight.

Have questions about the program. Click here to learn more!

Campus information session on January 31 and an informational webinar on February 1, 2019.

 

Special Dance Offerings Spring 2019

Special Dance Offerings Spring 2019:
https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?stuid=&facid=NONE&subj_page=DANC&term=1189

Javanese Dance DANC251.01 (.5 credit) (Dance/Southeast Asian Studies Certificate) no prerequisites
Repertory: Understanding migration/immigration through performance DANC378 (1 credit) (Dance/Queer Studies Cluster) no prerequisites

Contemporary Dance Technique DANC300 (.5 credit)
Contemporary Dance Technique is a course that practically considers our moving bodies through cultivating awareness and exploring weight, shape, space, and time along with a deep sense of kinetic connection within the body and among bodies. This semester, the Contemporary Dance Technique class will also partner with the Zilkha Gallery exhibit Audible Bacillus. As a class, we will explore the images and artworks in terms of process, composition, and theme and create an informal performance sharing layer to the exhibit.

Audition Notice: Eurydice

AUDITION NOTICE
for Wesleyan’s Department of Theater
Spring 2019 production of
EURYDICE By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Corey Sorenson

(Please note change of title – this will replace the previously announced production of Myth in Performance)

Come be a part of what the New York Times described as “Rhapsodically beautiful. A weird and wonderful new play – an inexpressibly moving theatrical fable about love, loss and the pleasures and pains of memory.” In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. Eurydice has been performed around the country, as well as off-Broadway, and won the 2003 Whiting Award for Drama.

All Wesleyan students are encouraged to audition!! (Cast of 7 to 8 people)

AUDITION INFORMATION:

Preliminary Audition:
Monday – January 28 (6-9pm) in the basement Studio of the Theater Building (TST 001)
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue. All people interested in acting in the show must attend the first audition.

Callback Audition:
Wednesday – January 30 (6-9pm) in the basement Studio of the Theater Building (TST 001)
For callback auditions, sides from the script will be provided.

An electronic version of the script is available. Please email Dawn Alger for access at: dalger@wesleyan.edu
A link to audition sign-up form will be sent out mid-January.

Rehearsals will begin on Monday, February 25; Performance Dates: April 12-14 in the CFA Theater

Questions about auditions should be directed to Stage Manager, Isabel Algrant: ialgrant@wesleyan.edu

Evolution of Infectious Consumers and the Integrated Control of Schistosomiasis

Human schistosomiasis affects about 200-300 million people worldwide, with chronic morbidity and substantial mortality. Join evolutionary biologist Dr. Armand Kuris as he discusses the breakdown of coevolution and thresholds of transmission controls of public health mitigation of such diseases and shares his work in Kenya and Senegal, where his team has shown that transmission control through predation on the snail intermediate hosts may be necessary to achieve elimination of human schistosomiasis in Africa.

Dr. Kuris is the Charles Storke II Chair in Ecology and Professor of Zoology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.