“Even Start Family Literacy Program Evaluation: Measuring Parental Involvement in Education” for Even Start Family Learning Program by Shayna Bauchner, Katie Hanna, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, and Holing Yip This report is the final product of a semester-long collaborative study between a group of student researchers from Wesleyan University and the Middletown Adult Education Even Start … Read more
“Exploring Employers’ Attitudes on Hiring Individuals with Serious Mental Illness” for River Valley Services by Stephanie Quainoo, Sara Shor, Sarah Tracy-Wanck, Jennifer Veloz This report examines employers’ attitudes on hiring individuals with a serious mental illness (SMI) within River Valley Services’ (RVS) Catchment Area 10- Middlesex County. The purpose of the study was to … Read more
“An Investigation of the Impact of Non-Taxable Properties on Fire Departments in the City of Middletown, CT” for Middletown Council Fire Services Cost Committee by Tara Abaring, Steve Koch, Miriam Rosenau, and Rob Wohl This report is the product of a semester-long study assessing the fiscal impact of providing fire services to the tax-exempt … Read more
“Art is Life; Life is Art:” A Study of Access to Higher Education for Low-Income Art Students in Middlesex County for Artists for World Peace by Priscilla Bustamante, Sarice Greenstein, Rithi Mathias, and Mariel Matze In collaboration with a community organization, Artists for World Peace (AFWP), a research team of four Wesleyan students … Read more
As part of Wesleyan’s “Feet to the Fire” climate change initiative, Professor of Astronomy, William Herbst and visiting artist, Marion Belanger, co-created a module entitled, “A Photographic Window on Causes of Climate Change”. This course is designed for graduate students in astronomy as well as junior and senior undergraduate majors. Students are very familiar with … Read more
Under Prof. Seth Redfield, students train in the use of the portable planetarium, and on the presentations appropriate for the facility and the intended audience. The final class period will include a discussion of our experiences using the portable planetarium in order to identify strategies that did or did not work to effectively convey astronomical … Read more
Students completing the NS&B capstone project worked in 3-4 person groups to create a 50-minute presentation on the various topics they had been studying on the brain. Students worked on adapting the material for high school instruction. The presentations were given at Mercy High School and Xavier High School in Middletown and Hopkins School in … Read more
Students were assigned particular grave markers in the cemetery. Students researched a deceased person, while studying how artifacts can mark the history of space and place within the urban environment of Middletown. John Hinchman, a lecturer and research specialist in the Architectural Conservation Laboratory of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania, taught … Read more
Students in Professor Magda Teter’s class on east European Jewish history have been exploring studying history through objects. This was possible thanks to a new partnership developed between Wesleyan and the local congregation Adath Israel. The congregation houses a small, but impressive, collection of Judaica. Students in this class examined, researched, and curated an exhibition … Read more
Students worked with inmates at Gates Correctional Institution in analyzing, adapting, and performing excerpts from Dante’s Inferno. Three former inmates from York Correctional Institution who had taken part in the previous years’ theater workshops were invited to participate as teaching assistants. The theatrical adaptations of the Gates men were shared in a later workshop at … Read more
