Celebrate Pride Month with the Wesleyan community! There will be queer-related events throughout the week, and faculty and staff are also welcome to attend the reception for queer colleagues on Wednesday, October 22 from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Events
Alumni drop-in appointments at the Patricelli Center (starting October 6)
Working on a project and need a sounding board or mentor? Have an idea but don’t know where to begin? Want to practice your networking skills? Or just curious about life after Wesleyan? These Wesleyan alumni want to meet with you, hear about your work or aspirations, and share advice based on their experiences as…
PCSE WESeminar and Open House (9/26 during Family Weekend)
Please join staff and students from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Wesleyan Alumni in Philanthropy and Public Service (WAPPS) this Friday, during Family Weekend, for two events: 2-3 p.m. Allbritton 311 WESEMINAR Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Internship Grants: Student Stories and Reflections As part of Wesleyan’s Summer Experience Grant program, the Patricelli…
reSET Social Enterprise Awards Dinner (10/28)
reSET Invites You to the 2014 Social Enterprise Awards Superheroes of Social Enterprise October 28, 2014, 5:30 – 8:30 pm The Society Room, 31 Pratt Street, Hartford, CT Social Entrepreneurs… understand that change is driven by those who are affected most. They work to defeat injustice, save the environment, and right inequality. Through their work,…
Request for Proposals: Student Community Engagement and Leadership Conference
Connecticut Campus Compact is looking for people committed to social change to lead workshops at the Student Community Engagement and Leadership Conference on Friday, November 14 at UConn’s Storrs campus. The conference – titled “Beyond the Selfie: Linking Identity, Community and Social Change” – aims to expand students’ understanding of social issues and their capacity to…
Tutoring Programs Info Session (9/11)
There are so many groups at Wesleyan working with children that it can be hard to choose just one. Aspiring tutors sometimes join the first program they hear about rather than selecting an organization based on the target age group, time commitment, academic subject, and program structure. To help you pick the group that’s right for you, the Office…
Commemorate Freedom Summer 1964
In the summer of 1964, over 1,000 volunteers from across the United States – many of them college students – traveled to the Deep South as a part of Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, to assist local civil rights workers in getting black Mississippians to the voting polls. Despite intimidation and violence from the…
Colony Collapse: 3d Printed Bees and More at the Green Street Arts Center
Photo courtesy of Joseph Smolinski and Mixed Greens, New York Middletown’s monthly Gallery Walk invites community members to the North End to celebrate local artists and support local businesses in the city’s Downtown Arts District. This Thursday’s walk will include the opening reception for Colony Collapse, an exhibition by Joseph Smolinski, visiting scholar in the…
Startup Weekend Hartford: Education (9/26-28)
Much of the conversation on Wesleyan’s campus around improving education often focuses on education reform, but you may have found yourself wondering about other approaches – not just policy, but also new products and programs. This year, Startup Weekend Hartford (Sept. 26-28) presents the opportunity to bring to life your own idea for addressing issues in education,…
Global Health and Innovation Conference (3/28-29 in New Haven)
Our friends at Unite for Sight are offering discounted registration for their 12th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference, March 28-29, in New Haven. (That’s a full week after Wesleyan’s Spring Break ends.) The student price is only $110 until August 31, and it increases $10/month thereafter. For full conference details, visit http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference. Current students who register for this…