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Wesleyan University is a private, non-sectarian liberal arts university in Middletown, Conn. Founded in 1831, Wesleyan offers its 3,000 undergraduates and 200 graduate students a demanding educational environment characterized by boldness, rigor and practical idealism. At Wesleyan, distinguished scholar-teachers work closely with students in more than 45 fields of study. The university seeks to build a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty and staff who think critically and creatively and value independence of mind and the generosity of spirit. Located two hours from both New York and Boston, the campus overlooks downtown Middletown and the Connecticut River. For more information, visit www.wesleyan.edu.

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Wesleyan University is a private, non-sectarian liberal arts university in Middletown, Conn. Founded in 1831, Wesleyan offers its 3,000 undergraduates and 200 graduate students a demanding educational environment characterized by boldness, rigor and practical idealism. At Wesleyan, distinguished scholar-teachers work closely with students in more than 45 fields of study. The university seeks to build a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty and staff who think critically and creatively and value independence of mind and the generosity of spirit. Located two hours from both New York and Boston, the campus overlooks downtown Middletown and the Connecticut River. For more information, visit www.wesleyan.edu.

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Graduate Students Present Research at Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Three Wesleyan Earth and environmental sciences graduate students, along with faculty and alumni, attended the 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference March 19-23 in The Woodlands, Texas. The graduate students were awarded funds from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant that allowed them to travel to this meeting, and they presented their research
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Wong '18 Co-Authors Paper Published in 'The Journal of Politics'
Grace Wong '18 co-authored a paper, "Assessing Contextual Measurement Strategies," published May 17 in The Journal of Politics.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Jul 10
Rachel Guetta Co-Authors Paper on Brain Connections Between Sound, Taste
Rachel Guetta '17 is the lead author of a new paper exploring how people form associations between sound and taste. The article, titled, "When Music is Salty: The Crossmodal Associations Between Sound and Taste," was published March 29 in the journal PLoS One.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 29
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Shantelle Brown Awarded Davis Projects for Peace Grant
Shantelle Brown '19 has been awarded a Davis Projects for Peace grant for her summer project, Sisters for Empowerment & Equality (SEE), which aims to address gender inequality in Jamaican culture through an art-based mentorship program for girls age 13 to 16. Brown's project is one of 120 initiatives selected for a Davis Projects for Peace grant, each receiving $10,000 for implementation during the summer of 2017.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 24
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Vincent Warne '18 Collaborates on Research
Vincent Warne is working with Priscilla Meyer (professor of Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian studies) on research about Woody Allen's "Sleeper" and Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel "We." The two plan to co-author a scholarly article.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 23
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Anna Bisikalo '17 Publishes Essay in Columbia University Journal
Anna Bisikalo is the author of an essay, "How Did Consensus Start to Form about the Holodomor as a Genocide During the Yushchenko Presidency?" that was published in the Fall 2016 issue of The Birch, a Columbia University undergraduate journal devoted to Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 23
James Reston Conducts Research in KGB Archives in Ukraine
In June and July 2016, James Reston '18 spent 8 weeks conducting research in Soviet KGB archives in Ukraine together with Victoria Smolkin (assistant professor of history and Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies).
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 23
McGuire '17, Araki '17 Receive Seed Grant to Spearhead Mindscope Health
Mindscope Health, an organization led by Siri McGuire '17 and Taiga Araki '17 has won the $10,000 Connecticut College Aetna Foundation seed stage grant-a branch of the InnovateHealth Yale and Aetna Foundation partnership. Mindscope works to improve the quality of life for patients with brain diseases and mental illnesses.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Mar 10
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Students Win Seed Grants for Social Impact Projects
Wesleyan's Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded $5,000 in unrestricted funds to each of three student-led social impact ventures in its annual Seed Grant competition. The winners were the Appalachian Scholars Project, Dream Chasers, and Move and Connect.
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Research / Grant - 2017 Feb 27
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Wesleyan Undergrads Receive Grants from NASA's CT Space Grant Consortium
Four Wesleyan astronomy students were awarded grants from NASA's Connecticut Space Grant Consortium to fund research, scholarships and travel to conferences.
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David Machado
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Research / Grant - 2017 Feb 17
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