Class of 2012

November 7, 2009
Exley Science Center, Room 150

9:00 a.m.
Global Environmental Change and Freshwater Resources: Hope for the Best or Change to Prepare for the Worst?
Patrick L. Osborne, PhD
Executive Director
Harris World Ecology Center, University of Missouri – St. Louis
10:15 a.m.
Water in a Changing Climate – The Role of the National [...]

Feet to the Fire has commissioned four faculty members to create new works about climate change, and two of them premiere tomorrow, Friday, April 17.
The first is a noontime concert, Glacier by Alvin Lucier, professor of music, in Crowell Concert Hall.  The second is a solo entitled, Liquid Shakti, by Hari Krishnan, artist-in-residence in the [...]

Filmmaker, eco-activist, and reality-TV survivor Shalini Kantayya, from 7th Empire Media, presents her film A Drop Of Life during this year’s Wesleyan University Earth Day Celebration.
Shalini Kantayya appeared on the television reality show On the Lot, created by Steven Spielberg to find Hollywood’s next great director. Out of more than 12,000 filmmakers, she was the [...]

Those of you who participated in the Common Moment dance at Foss Hill during orientation week might want to check out the short video which has been posted to the Feet to the Fire website.

More videos and images are available in the Feet to the Fire Gallery.

“Where On Earth Are We Going?” is the title of the 4th Annual Robert Schumann Environmental Studies Symposium, a series of three seminars dedicated to global climate change issues which will be taking place on Saturday, October 18, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Tischler 150 in the Exley Science Center.

9:00 a.m. – [...]

Check out these scenes from the First Year Matters/Feet to the Fire Common Moment on August 29, 2008. Photos by Nick Lacy.

Off the Beaten Path: A Jazz & Tap Odyssey explores the American art forms of jazz and tap and their unique cultural influences. The full-evening performance was created under the direction of award-winning New England dancer/choreographer Drika Overton and musician, composer and educator Paul Arslanian, in collaboration with renowned tap dancers Brenda Bufalino and Josh [...]

On Wednesday, September 3, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Chapel, Winona LaDuke, an environmental and political activist will welcome the Wesleyan community back to campus with an address on “Indigenous Thinking about a Post Carbon, Post Empire Economy.” LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works [...]

On the evening on Thursday, August 28, members of the Class of 2012 took part in a survey on climate change.  Here are the results:
What do you see as the greatest threat resulting from climate change?

Threat to water resources. (16%)
Threat to ecosystems. (37%)
Threat to food. (7%)
Threat to coasts. (5%)
Threat to health. (9%)
Warm spells/heat [...]

The north-end peninsula of Middletown is an area of spectacular beauty and unique aquatic and riparian ecology in the Connecticut River watershed. The north-end peninsula contains a converted sanitary landfill as well as the recycling center and the remnant of the old Remington Building that built both type writers and munitions during World War [...]

The Feet to the Fire Common Moment is being led by the world renowned Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The event features a dance performance by Wesleyan students with a special performance by students and community members on bicycles, tricycles and unicycles. As part of the performance, students will assemble in the shape of a [...]

The Feet to the Fire/First Year Matters Common Reading Discussions that will be taking place on Thursday, August 28, from 7:00-8:15 p.m. are based on two sets of “texts:”
1. The first set of texts is four articles on the topic of global climate change that were made available over the summer:

Suketu Mehta, “Lost Horizons” (2007)
Edward T. [...]

Feet to the Fire combines the teaching power of art and field science to help students and the community better understand the implications of global climate change. Feet to the Fire has partnered with the First Year Matters during New Student Orientation to bring the following programs to you:

Common Readings. Four articles on the topic [...]