College of Integrative Science at Wesleyan

New on the blog! Director of the Sustainability Office at the Bailey College of the Environment Jen Kleindenst 🌱

“For Kleindienst, a typical day involves meetings with students, community partners, and working on projects to support sustainability and environmental justice initiatives. She and her team guide our community towards three main goals: achieving carbon neutrality by 2035, implementing sustainability and environmental justice into Wesleyan’s academic programs and campus and community-based engagement projects, and integrating sustainability into campus culture.”

Read the whole profile at the link in bio.

Happy Earth day! 🌎🌱🌳 and Earth month…

The Bailey College of the Environment and Sustainability Office at Wesleyan are excited to share this year’s Earth Month calendar. Join us for events throughout April happening at Wesleyan and in the wider community. Visit bit.ly/sust-events to learn more about the events, see newly-added events, or add your own event.

Announcing our schedule for the Summer Seminar Series! This year we are highlighting eight amazing Wesleyan faculty whose collective research focuses are as expansive as our summer program. We aim to increase dialog across disciplines in STEM, show the myriads of paths our students could take after engaging in their own scientific research this summer, and represent the broad interests, backgrounds, and expertise we have here at Wesleyan. The seminar series is open to all faculty, staff, and students on campus.

All seminars take place at 1:20pm in Tishler Hall (Exley 150), and are followed by a social on the patio.

🏳️‍⚧️ In honor of Transgender Day of Visibility, join us for two powerful community events:

👟 5K Run & Walk
📅 March 29 | 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Bacon Field House, Freeman Athletic Center

💬 TDOV Panel
📅 April 2 | 4:30 PM
📍 Daniel Family

Open to all - students, families, and Middletown community members.

Check out our newest profile on how Dr. Alison O’Neil reprogrammed her career by stepping into the world of stem cell research, where understanding how cells change identity is helping reshape the future of medicine.

Follow WesWaves as we highlight the scientists, discoveries, and ideas driving the next wave of biomedical research.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬

Celebrating the women who paved the way and the ones making waves at Wesleyan and all over the world today. 🌊

New on the blog! Meet Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science Elizabeth Chang-Davidson in her new profile on WAVES (link in bio).

Professor Chang-Davidson arrived at college with a plan: to double major in mechanical engineering and math, a combination which was shaped by interests she had carried throughout high school. During her high school years, she spent long afternoons and evenings working with her robotics team, building and troubleshooting whatever problems arose. In the summers, she went to math camps where she learned, as she puts it, “lots of weird math.” Pursuing both fields felt natural, and in the end she completed the exact double major she had imagined.

Welcome back and see you soon!

Two weeks from today: RESEARCH PATHWAYS! Join us Friday, January 23, in the Exley Science Center lobby from 1:30 to 3:30pm to learn about opportunities for research this summer! Visit the website for more information, to register, or sign-up to present your work!

Tomorrow is GIS DAY! GIS Day is an annual event celebrating geographic information systems based technologies . Celebrate with CIS and E&ES 🌎

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

9:00am-9:40am, Allbritton 204
Come to Dr. Sanaz Vajedian’s class!

GIS Techniques for Understanding Ancient Settlements in Northeastern Syria

11:50am-1:00pm, Exley 137
E&ES Colloquia: Dr. Jill Kelly, Yale University

This Must Be the Place: GIS Representations of Middletown Connecticut

Pizza will be served at 11:50am!