Trevon Gordon ’17 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The grant contributed to his work with Saha Global, a non-profit that empowers women in rural communities to solve their village’s need for clean water and electricity by providing business opportunities. Although Trey ultimately did not raise the full amount of money he…
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2015 PCSE Seed Grant Winners Announced
Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 PCSE Seed Grant Challenge. These student-led social ventures will each receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds as well as training, advising, mentoring, incubator workspace, and other resources from the Patricelli Center. Recipients were selected from a strong pool of finalists who submitted…
Student Spotlight: Alexandria Irace ’15 on the Health of Communities
Service-Learning courses can involve a wide range of activities that extend well beyond traditional volunteer service. For The Health of Communities with Professor Peggy Carey Best, this means conducting research with real-world applications, right here in Middletown. In addition to reading and discussing literature on public health, medicine, and ethics, students serve as research assistants…
Reblog: Banner Dropping the “T” Word
This article by Jacob Seltzer ’17 appeared on Wesleying, Wesleyan’s student life blog. Read the original here. A couple days ago, a series of banners were displayed in Usdan urging students to not to use the word “townie.” The banners are part of an effort by the Middletown Wesleyan Relations Committee (MWRC) to work towards their…
When Canada Goose Comes to Wesleyan: Exploring Class and Classism
An important event sponsored by Wesleyan Student Affairs and presented by Class Action: All of us are affected by classism. It permeates our societal structures – on individual, social, cultural and institutional levels. None of us escapes its effects. Yet, classism is invisible in many ways. Most of us have had few opportunities to examine classism in…
Open Textbooks, Antibiotics, and Bottle Bills: An Interview with Zach Burns ’14 of U.S. PIRG
One challenging aspect of post-grad life is that there often isn’t as much time for the extra- and co-curricular activities that make ours lives at Wesleyan so rich and rewarding. Fortunately for our dedicated student activists, there are in fact jobs where grads can continue to work on the causes they care about, even to…
Trees Trees Trees: Help Macdonough Students Win $10,000 for their School
Evan Bieder ’15, co-coordinator for Wesleyan’s Hunger and Homelessness program, is interning with a new STEM program at Macdonough School as his practicum for the Civic Engagement Certificate. Several of the 4th grade students at Macdonough have worked together to make a video that has now reached the national finals for the Scottie’s TREES ROCK! Video…
Enrichment Grant Report: Rina Kremer ’15
Rina Kremer ’15 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. The grant contributed to her trip to Japan, where she researched natural, self-sustaining landscapes as preparation for her thesis: a permaculture design for the Cross Street Dance Studios at Wesleyan. You can read Rina’s story below, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about…
Enrichment Grant Report: Kehan Zhou ’15 and Julian Compagni Portis ’15
Kehan Zhou and Julian Compagni Portis were selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship to attend Startup Weekend New Haven in November. You can read their story below, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about our grant programs. ************************** Startup Weekend New Haven was a really great opportunity for my business partner,…
Student Spotlight: Alicia Gansley ’15
Civic engagement takes many forms at Wesleyan: volunteerism, activism and advocacy, community-based work, and more recently, unique academic experiences like service-learning and civic engagement courses. Alicia Gansley ’15 – a Computer Science major completing the Economics minor and Civic Engagement certificate – has been involved with nearly all of these activities during her time at…