Month: October 2017

The Wesleyan Mathematics and Science Scholars (WesMaSS) Program plans to break the Guinness world record for the largest number of people rolling down a hill within an hour. This event is scheduled from 10-12 noon on Saturday, November 4. Come join the fun and raise Cardinal spirit by having students, staff and the Middletown community work together to break a world record and get into the Guinness Book! COME for STICKERS, to WIN Cool Raffle Prizes, and a chance to throw your dorm a DESSERT PARTY!!!

Apply here:

http://wesleyan.edu/finaid/employment/job-postings/Admission/Tour%20Guide%20-%20ADM59.html

UPCOMING EVENTS
Employer Information Sessions & Workshops
Meet and network with employers, learn about their organization, respective industry, and full time and internship opportunities. Sessions are generally hosted by Wesleyan Alumni.
10.16 – L2 Information Session, 12:15pm, Career Center – Consulting/Tech/Analytics
10.17 – Horizons School of Technology Appointments (Sign-Up Required), 10:30am-12pm, Career Center – Tech
10.17 – Horizons School of Technology, 12pm, Career Center – Tech
10.18 – Bloomberg LP, 12:15pm, Career Center – IT/Consulting/Media
10.18 – Bloomberg LP Coffee Chats, 1:30pm-3:30pm, Career Center – IT/Consulting/Media
10.18 – Achievement First, 6pm, Usdan 110 – Education
10.19 – Green Corps, 6pm, Boger Hall Rm. 115 – Non-Profit/Environmental Activism
10.26 – BlackRock, 12pm, Boger Hall Rm. 115 – Finance
10.27 – Deloitte Coffee Chats, 12pm-3pm, Career Center – Consulting
10.31 – Explo, 12pm, Boger Hall Rm. 112 – Education
11.02 – Venture for America, 12pm, Career Center – Entrepreneurship

Alumni Career Talks
10.19 – Foreign Service Careers with Max Kraft ’09, 12pm, Career Center

Workshops
10.16 – The Health Professions Essential Meeting, 6:30pm, PAC 001
10.17 – Resume Writing Workshop, 12pm, Boger Hall Rm. 112
10.18 – Cover Letter Writing Workshop, 12:15pm, Boger Hall Rm. 114
10.18 – Master of Public Health Programs Panel, 6pm, Usdan 108
10.19 – Health Professions Personal Statement Writing Workshop, 6:15pm, Boger Hall Rm. 112
10.27 – LinkedIn Headshot Event, 11am-1pm, Career Center
11.01 – Health Professions Mock Medical School Interview Workshop, 6pm, Usdan 108
11.02 – Choosing Wisely: The Best Medicine for the Patient, 6:30pm, Boger Hall Rm. 112

Graduate School Information Sessions
10.17 – Columbia Law School & Financial Aid, 12pm, Boger Hall Rm. 110

UPCOMING APPLICATION DEADLINES
On-Campus Interview Deadlines
10.20 – Policy Analyst, APPRISE Incorporated
10.20 – Consulting Business Associate, Argus Information & Advisory Services
10.28 – Research Analyst Intern, The Brattle Group – Cardinal Internship
10.29 – Teacher/Coach/Advisor, Plan A Head – Sign-Up Now for Interview Slot

Wesleyan Affiliated Employer Deadlines
*Wesleyan Affiliated opportunities are continually added. Search Jobs > Filters > Show Advanced Options > Label > Wesleyan Affiliated to view current opportunities.
10.16 – Xtern, TechPointX
10.31 – Sales Compensation Analyst, Stryker
11.16 – Analyst, CamberView Partners

Cardinal Internships
*Cardinal Internships are continually added. Search Jobs > Filters > Show Advanced Options > Label > Cardinal Internship to view current opportunities.
10.23 – Software Engineer Intern, Pinterest
10.26 – Summer Analyst – Investment Management, Goldman Sachs
10.27 – Software Developer Intern, Atlassian
11.01 – Investigation Intern (Winter Break), Northern Virginia Capital Defender Office

Resume Review: You must have your resume approved by the GCC to apply to positions through Handshake. If your resume was approved in Handshake last year, you do not need to have it approved again. Adding new content from this summer? We recommend reviewing your updated resume during a career advising appointment to make sure you’re always putting your best foot forward.

Dear Students,

The application for Winter Session Financial Aid is open. To be eligible for aid, you must currently be receiving need-based Wesleyan grant funds, and new this year: International students receiving need-based grant funds may be eligible to receive aid for Winter Session! Need-based grant funds are limited and students also should expect to consider student loans. Applying for financial aid does not obligate you to take a course; if you’re considering Winter Session but are not sure, please apply for aid anyway.

Apply for Wesleyan grant aid by October 25, using the link in your Portal’s Courses Bucket.
You will receive an award letter Friday, October 27.
Enroll in your course beginning Monday, October 30: bring your paper enrollment form, award letter, and payment for the difference between tuition and your award to the Winter Session office (74 Wyllys).
If you plan to use student loans to pay for your course, please consult with your financial aid advisor to make sure you have enough loan availability to cover both Winter Session and the spring term – and to complete the additional loan request process.
Applications for grant aid will not be accepted after Wednesday, October 25. Need-based grant funds are limited and will not meet full need, as Winter Session is an optional term.

More information about Winter Session, including the course list, is available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession. Winter Session takes place January 8-21. Course registration, housing requests, and dining requests will open on October 30. Winter Housing and Dining requests will only be accepted until Thursday, November 30 at noon.

Please direct all questions to winter@wesleyan.edu.

 

SHASHA SEMINAR: GUNS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY

REGISTER HERE:
https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1318/hybrid/alumni-match.aspx?sid=1318&gid=1&pgid=6547

SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2017
3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Registration
Beckham Hall
Pick up your name tag and seminar agenda.

4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Keynote Address
Memorial Chapel
Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of American Studies, Emeritus, Wesleyan University, “Open Season: The Gun Rights Movement and American Political Culture.”

Introduction: Jennifer Tucker, Associate Professor of History and Science in Society at Wesleyan and organizer of this year’s Shasha Seminar.

Professor Slotkin is the author of an award-winning trilogy of scholarly books on the myth of the frontier in American cultural history: Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (1973); The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 (1985), which received the Little Big Horn Associates Literary Award; and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America (1992) a finalist for the 1993 National Book Award. He received the Mary C. Turpie Award of the American Studies Association (1995) for his contributions to teaching and program-building in American Studies.

Prof. Slotkin will discuss the current struggle over firearms legislation and how it has been shaped by a political movement which links a radical understanding of “gun rights” to the agendas of American conservatism. That movement has succeeded by drawing effectively on the historical traditions and social practices that have traditionally sanctioned interpersonal and vigilante violence in America.

Free and open to the public.

6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Reception and Art Exhibition Opening
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Art Gallery
Reception to mark the opening of the art exhibition, Up in Arms, a group show that explores historical and social issues surrounding the impact of guns in American culture.

6:15: Curator’s remarks by Susanne Slavick, artist, writer, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon.

7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Dinner (Registered Participants)
Beckham Hall

Welcoming remarks:

Michael S. Roth ’78, president of Wesleyan University.

Featured speaker: John Feinblatt ’73, president of Everytown for Gun Safety: “From Third Rail to Silver Lining: The Politics of Gun Safety.”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017
8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Registration
Beckham Hall
Pick up your name tag and seminar agenda.

8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Breakfast
Beckham Hall
Light refreshments and coffee/tea.

9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Firearms in Early U.S. History
Daniel Family Commons
Kevin Sweeney, professor of history and American studies, emeritus, at Amherst College, on historical patterns in the possession of firearms for military and private uses in the cultures of early America from 1580 to 1810.

Donald E. Zilkha ’73, Wesleyan Trustee emeritus, founder of Zilkha Partners, LP, Chairman of Colt’s Manufacturing Company from 1994 to 2013, on aspects of the gun business in Connecticut in the 19th century.

Pamela Haag, historian, independent scholar, author of The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (2016), on the commercialization of guns in America circa 1900.

Chair: Jeffers Lennox, assistant professor of history, Wesleyan University.

10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
Daniel Family Commons Lounge

10:45 a.m. to noon
Panel 2: Gun Violence: Historical and Contemporary Trends
Daniel Family Commons
Matthew Miller, MD, professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University, and associate director of health policy and injury prevention at the Harvard School of Public Health, will talk about firearms and suicide and the 2015 National Firearms Survey.

Randolph Roth, professor of history and sociology, Ohio State University, member of the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable of Crime Trends (2013–16), author of American Homicide (2009), will speak about the historical relationship between firearms and homicide in the U.S.

Nicholas Suplina ’00, Senior Advisor and Special Counsel at Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, will share his work on a first-of-its-kind analysis that traces ‘crime guns’ recovered from law enforcement.

Chair: Crystal Feimster, associate professor of history, African-American studies, American studies, Yale University.

Noon to 1 p.m.
Lunch
Beckham Hall

1:10 p.m. to 2:40 p.m.
Panel 3: Current Gun Policies
Daniel Family Commons

Scott Rohde, public safety director at Wesleyan. will speak about the university’s policy about weapons and safety.

Robert Wilcox ’01, director of priority federal campaigns for Everytown for Gun Safety, will discuss “Gun Laws and Legislation: What’s Happening in Congress and State Capitols Across the Country.”

Patrick Charles, senior historian for U.S. Special Operations Command located at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and the author of a forthcoming book, Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry, will examine the history of arms regulations laws.

Gregory Dubinsky ’07, associate at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg and former law clerk to Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, will provide an overview of the Heller doctrine and how the Second Amendment doctrine has evolved in the lower courts.

Chair: Jennifer Tucker, associate professor of history and Science in Society Program, Wesleyan University.

2:40 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Break
Daniel Family Commons Lounge

3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Panel 4: Activism and Advocacy Around the Gun Debate
Daniel Family Commons

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor emerita of women’s studies and religion, Skidmore College, author and editor of works including Woman the Hunter (1997), Gun Women: Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America (2000), and Heart Shots: Women Write About Hunting (2003-05), will present a talk titled “’And Sam Colt Made Them Equal:’ Radical Feminist and Queer Arguments for Gun-armed Self Defense.”

Carolyn Light, director of undergraduate studies in Harvard’s Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, and the author of the book, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (2017) will present, “Whose Castle? The Identity Politics of Armed Citizenship.”

Kristin A. Goss, professor of public policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, and the author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (2006) and, with Phillip Cook, The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know (2014), will address “How Movements Get Moving: Gun Regulation Advocacy Then and Now.”

Chair: Anthony Hatch, associate professor of Science in Society, with faculty affiliations with the department of sociology and African American Studies Program, Wesleyan.

4:25 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.
Panel 5: Data-Dive Presentations by Wesleyan Students
Daniel Family Commons

Data-Dive Presentations by Wesleyan Students. Co-sponsored by the Quantitative Analysis Center and the Center for the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life.

Chair: Manolis Kaparakis, director of the Quantitative Analysis Center.

5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Panel 6: Alumni Round Table: Looking Ahead
Daniel Family Commons

Matthew Lesser ’10, Middletown, State of Connecticut 100th District Representative.

Samuel (Sam) Levy ’04, legal counsel at Everytown for Gun Safety, with a focus on policy and state legislative work in the Northeast region.

Donald E. Zilkha ’73, Wesleyan Trustee emeritus, founder of Zilkha Partners, LP, Chairman of Colt’s Manufacturing Company from 1994 to 2013.

Moderator: William D. Johnston, professor of history, Science in Society, and East Asian Studies Program, Wesleyan.

Alumni participation welcome.

For their support of this event we would like to thank the following Wesleyan organizers of this year’s Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns: The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, the Office of Academic Affairs, the Quantitative Analysis Center, and the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Art Gallery.

Long Lane Farms along with the College of the Environment and Bon Appetit are co-sponsoring the annual Pumpkin Festival this Saturday, October 14^th from 12pm – 4pm at Long Lane Farm.

There will be tours of the farm, bands, activities, student groups, pie eating contest, farmer’s market, pumpkins for sale, free veggie burgers and cider and much more!

Weather should be amazing for October, so come join us!  Tell your classmates to come on down!

1. Law School Admissions: Process & Strategy
Friday, October 13, 12:15pm-1:15pm, Boger Hall, room 114.

Conducted by Elizabeth Madigan, Esq., Assistant Director of Admissions, Brooklyn Law School, this session is for students applying to law school AND for those who are undecided. Questions addressed will include: Should I apply to law school? Where should I apply? How do I strategically present my strengths and profile? How do I handle possible deficits? Ms. Madigan will cover all aspects of the application, including your LSAT score, transcript, letters of recommendation, personal statement and other essays, character and fitness issues, and resumes. You will gain insight as to how these components are viewed from the perspective of an admissions officer. Co-sponsored by the Gordon Career Center, the College of Social Studies, the Government Department, Deans Renee Johnson-Thornton and Jennifer Wood, and the Wesleyan Mock Trial Association.

2. Columbia Law School & Financial Aid
Tuesday, October 17, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Boger Hall, room 110.
Danielle Lev, Associate Director of Admissions, Columbia Law School, will discuss this top-ranked law program, the nuances of the application process, and financial aid for law school in general. Of note will be Columbia Law School’s financial aid options. Note that Columbia Law School admitted three graduates from the Class of 2017. This information session is co-sponsored by the College of Social Studies, the Government Department, and Wesleyan Mock Trial.

The Resource Center is looking for volunteers and employees! The Resource Center, a culmination of student advocacy and activism, provides a centralized space where students can learn about and advocate for diversity and inclusion at Wesleyan as well as in their own lives. The Resource Center was created to improve the educational experience of students from underrepresented groups, lessen interpersonal violence on campus, promote greater campus harmony, foster better socioemotional health and wellness, and cultivate closer ties between faculty, students, staff, and alumnae/i at Wesleyan.

If you know a student who may be interested in gaining some great community organizing skills while supporting the mission of the Resource Center, please consider applying to be a volunteer or employee with the center! Student leaders are integral to the work of the Resource Center in actualizing its mission and goals. We offer students the opportunity to apply for several positions through a centralized process beginning with this application form.

The Resource Center is currently looking for student leaders and employees for the following positions (individual job descriptions can be found here):

Volunteers
Office Assistants (2-4 positions)
Marketing and Communications Interns (2-4 positions)
Dwight Greene ’70 Intern (1 position)
Diversity and Community Engagement Interns (4-6 positions)

Have interested students complete this application either by the priority deadline of Friday October 13th or the final deadline of Tuesday, October 17th. Review of applications will begin on the priority deadline of Friday, October 13th and one-on-one interviews will begin on the week of October 16th and will be completed by October 20th. Employment offers must be accepted or denied before the start of the 2nd quarter on October 25th.

Any questions or concerns about the positions can be answered by the Director of the Resource Center, Demetrius Colvin (dcolvin@wesleyan.edu).

Sincerely,

Demetrius Colvin

McNair Program Info Session 10/16 6PM-7PM
McNair Program Informational Session,

Monday, October 16 6pm-7pm in Usdan 108

The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program is designed to assist students from underrepresented groups, including students who are first-generation to attend college and low-income, to prepare for and successfully enroll in post-graduate programs, especially PhD programs. Participants must be US citizens or permanent residents and currently a 2nd or 3rd year student. Wesleyan’s program focuses on students majoring in STEM fields. McNair Fellows are eligible for summer research stipends to conduct research for 10 weeks with a Wesleyan faculty member, to receive a stipend during the academic year to continue their research as well as funding to attend professional conferences to present their research, GRE preparation, graduate school visits, and graduate school application assistance.

Learn more about McNair and meet with current McNair students at an informational session on Monday, October 16, from 6pm-7pm in Usdan 108.