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Studies Open main Close left shield right shield About Admission & Aid Academics Life @ Wesleyan Visit News & Events Athletics Giving Alumni Parents Directory Tools WesPortal Library OneStop Calendar WesMaps Search Search the Site Go Search for: WesAndTheWorldFCGS HomeHome Fellowships Intercultural Learning Language Learning Study Abroad International Students Events Sub menu Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part IV:STEM & Health May 16, 2024 by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learningat the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and oftenmultilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the last part of the four partseries where we spent time highlighting different topics… Read More Meet the GEM Student Advisory Board! May 16, 2024 by Tasmiah Akter The Global Engagement Minor (GEM) at Wesleyan is a unique opportunity for Wesleyan students to explore their academic interests, extracurricular activities, and language skills in learning how to navigate the world! The GEM provides immense flexibility by allowing students to select courses that provide a global perspective according to their interests, continue… Read More Eurovision @ Wes May 16, 2024 by Oleksandra Volakova Last weekend, dozens of singers, musicians, and bands from different countries performed in the Grand Final of Eurovision, an annual international song competition. It unites people of various countries who are overwhelmed and inspired by emotions and is meant to create a politics-free safe space. Each country of the European Broadcasting Union… Read More Language Buddies: Don’t Lose Your Language Skills Over the Summer! May 2, 2024 Registration for the Language Buddies program is open for the summer break! Coordinated through the Fries Center for Global Studies, Language Buddies is a program that matches Wesleyan students, faculty, or staff members with one another to practice their language skills over academic breaks through a series of self-paced, online conversational activities. This initiative was… Read More Two Wesleyan Seniors Win the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship May 2, 2024 Wesleyan is one of 41 partner institutions whose graduating seniors are eligible to apply for the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. This fellowship, often known on our campus simply as The Watson,” provides $40,000 in funding for fellows to engage their unique individual interests on the global scale. Fellows create their own original projects, execute them… Read More Adventures Around the World for Children: Wes Students Volunteer at Russell Library for Intercultural Fair May 2, 2024 by Oleksandra Volakova Traveling to ten different countries in four continents in less than two hours sounds impossible, but not for those who visited Russell Library on Saturday, April 27. At the Adventures Around the World” event, children got a chance to get acquainted with different cultures, listen to other languages, and taste various international… Read More Critical Language Scholarship: 2024 Finalists Share Their CLS Aspirations and Advice for Future Applicants May 2, 2024 The Critical Language Scholarship is an opportunity for university students from the United States to interact with new languages and cultures to promote intercultural and global engagement, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Every summer, students take part in an immersive eight-to-ten week program at intensive CLS study abroad institutes. Students have the option… Read More Student Veteran Named Truman Scholar May 2, 2024 by Mike Mavredakis Student-veteran Desaree Edwards ’25 was one of 60 student leaders selected as Truman Scholars in 2024, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation announced on April 12. Truman Scholars demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a career in government or the nonprofit sector, and academic excellence. Each Truman Scholar receives funding for graduate… Read More The Class Goes to the Museum May 2, 2024 by Ana Pérez Gironés Teaching Spanish K-12: Second Language Pedagogy (SPAN 204/EDST 204/GBST 318) is a service-learning CLAC course in which students learn about basic concepts of language learning and teaching while engaging in supporting Spanish classes at Lawrence School, one of the Middletown public elementary schools. During the first half of the semester, Wesleyan… Read More The Salsa Class Mentality May 2, 2024 by Teva Corwin While I love to dance, I will be the first person to tell you that coordinated footsteps and tasteful hand movements aren’t my strong suit. Instead, I somewhat chaotically move to the music with little acknowledgment of its rhythm – my elbows often take center stage in my questionable, yet quite expressive,… Read More Dowling ’25 Receives Goldwater Scholarship May 2, 2024 Adin Dowling ’25, a triple major in Physics, Math, and the College of Integrative Sciences, is one of 508 math, science, and engineering students nationwide to be awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Read More Debbra Goh ’24 Selected for Gaither Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC May 2, 2024 Wesleyan’s Debbra Goh ‘24 has been accepted into the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace and will begin her work in Washington, DC in September. Read More Celebrating Faculty Research on International Topics 2023-24 Part III: Identity: Cultural & Religious May 2, 2024 by Tasmiah Akter Wesleyan faculty’s collective expertise spans the globe, and the Office for Intercultural Learning at the Fries Center for Global Studies is pleased to celebrate their international and often multilingual work here in the Wes and the World newsletter. This is the third of a four part series to be highlighted in the… Read More Film Director Alek Lev ’97 Returns to Campus: A Conversation about Learning ASL at Wesleyan, Directing, and More April 18, 2024 On Thursday, April 4th, Wesleyan alum and acclaimed film director Alek Lev ’97 joined the Center for the Arts’s Film Series screening of WHAT?”, a movie about a Deaf actor who is trying to thrive in his Hollywood career as he takes the proper representation of a Deaf character in a film into his own hands. The film uses… Read More Journey into Exile – Capturing Life Through the Lens of a Refugee April 18, 2024 by Oleksandra Volakova As of September 2023, more than 114 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide, which is rapidly increasing. You and your friends have probably always lived in one place, leaving it mostly for traveling. Because of this, it is complicated to understand the daily hardships and problems refugee people face. Unless you will… Read More Celebrating and Embracing Diversity: Redefining Spanish Identity in the 21st Century April 18, 2024 by Nataly Huyhua Earlier this week, on Monday, April 15th, a thought-provoking lecture titled Spain is Not OnlyWhite: National Identity in the 21st Century” provided an exploration of Spain’s evolvingidentity in the modern era. Dr. Jeffrey Coleman’s lecture discussed Spain’s demographic shifts, particularly the profound impact ofmass migration since the 1990s. While Spain has long… Read More Page 1 of 26 1 2 3 … 26 » Welcome Welcome to the Wes and the World Blog hosted by the Fries Center for Global Studies. SUBSCRIBE Stay up-to-date on events, news, and global opportunities by SUBSCRIBING to our Wes And The World newsletter! 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