Michaela Fisher was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. With this grant, she participated in a cooperative economics spring break trip to the Bay Area. You can read Michaela’s reflection below, read past grantee reflections here, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about all of our grant programs. I spent the…
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards annual seed grants to fund the launch or early stage growth of a Wesleyan-connected social enterprise, project, program, or venture. Each grantee reports back with blog posts and photos. Here’s the second report from Brent Packer ’15, founder of Potlux, the first online community where collegiate sustainability initiatives are effectively aggregated and shared.…
Want to do something productive this Spring Break? Thinking about how to transform your passions and liberal arts degree into awesome careers? Join Kai’s trip to Silicon Valley (March 14th to March 17th) to network with over 10 alumni at various stages in their careers, and to connect with other passionate students! Some of our…
Professor Barbara Juhasz, Akila Raoul ’16, and Micaela Kaye ’16 took a field trip to the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center last December as a part of Professor Juhasz’s Eye Movement and Reading Lab to explore compound words and how they are created with first- fifth grade students in the after-school program at Green…
Roxie Chuang ’17 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. With this grant, she presented her research for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. You can read Roxie’s reflection below, read past grantee reflections here, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about all of our grant programs. With…
Derrick Holman ’16 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. With this grant, he attended the Landmark Forum, a personal reflection and development training, over winter break. You can read Derrick’s reflection below, read past grantee reflections here, and visit the PCSE website to learn more about all of our grant programs. I was…
1 Year Out is an interview series highlighting alumni from the classes of ’14 and ’15 who are engaged in public service, entrepreneurship, or nonprofit work in any capacity- through their employment, a volunteer position, or on the side. So tell me about your life 1 Year Out of Wesleyan! It has been both wonderful and…
Josh Su ’17, a PCSE Peer Advisor, studied abroad during fall semester and sent us this reflection: I had begun my study abroad program to find solutions (economic, social, and political) for the impacts of climate change. However, even after a month in Vietnam, I had only been troubled with more issues and the hidden dynamics…
Professor Meredith Hughes taught a service-learning course this fall called Seminar on Astronomical Pedagogy. Course participants studied methods for effectively teaching astronomy to elementary school students. Their semester-long project was to design and present their own presentation using Wesleyan’s portable Starlab planetarium at a local elementary school. I interviewed Hannah Fritze ‘18, Jesse Shanahan MA…
Digital Wesleyan is hosting a 7- week workshop this spring for students to learn programming fundamentals, product design, and the language Python. The workshops will be on Saturdays from 10am-2pm starting on January 23rd and ending on March 5th. Graduates of the program can apply for exclusive paid summer internships with Wesleyan-affiliated startups. This course will…
