Topic: Planning Your Sophomore Summer: Navigating Career Options After Major Declaration
Date: Friday, April 7 from 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Location: Boger Hall, Room 112
You are welcome to send questions in advance to peeradvisors@wesleyan.edu.

Topic: Planning Your Sophomore Summer: Navigating Career Options After Major Declaration
Date: Friday, April 7 from 12:15pm – 1:15pm
Location: Boger Hall, Room 112
You are welcome to send questions in advance to peeradvisors@wesleyan.edu.
Starting on Monday 3/6, the Class of 2025 Academic Peer Advisors (APAs) will host drop-in office hours. The APAs can help students navigate major/minor/certificate declaration, discuss study strategies and time management tools, as well as get a head start on pre-registration planning. Be sure to stop by!
The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (link) is a national program supporting underrepresented students as they work toward applying to graduate school. This program serves juniors and seniors, providing summer and academic year funding, mentorship and training, as well as a community of students of similar backgrounds who are all striving toward the same goals.
Students are eligible to apply to these programs during their sophomore year. Applications are due 3/10/23. To learn more, visit our website here.
Greetings, Class of 2025!
I write to share that major declaration will open next week on Thursday 2/9/23. You must declare your major anytime between 2/9/23 and 3/24/23. Please review below a handful of helpful resources that are important for you to utilize at this stage in your Wesleyan degree:
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to chat with your faculty advisor, meet with one of our Academic Peer Advisors, or schedule a meeting with me.
Wesleyan Women in Science (WesWIS) is holding our annual student-faculty tea in person this spring on Friday, February 10th from 4:30-5:30pm in the Van Vleck Observatory Library. There will be STEM faculty from all NSM departments and this event is a way for students to chat with professors in a more informal setting. Please remember people of all genders and majors are welcome at WesWIS events.
Please join us for Pizza with a Professor on Thursdays in February at 12 noon.
Come to learn more about a faculty member’s research, teaching philosophies, and journey to become a professor at Wesleyan University. Pizza with a Professor is a wonderful way to get to know faculty outside the classroom over pizza.
February 2, Prof. Peck, Boger Hall 115
February 16, Prof. Dolan, Usdan 108
February 23, Prof Gallarotti, Usdan 108
The MMUF is a national program supporting underrepresented students as they work toward applying to graduate school in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences.
The program provides summer and academic year funding, mentorship, and a community of students of similar backgrounds who are all striving toward the same goals of earning a Ph.D.
To learn more…
Applications include:
APPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ARE DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH
Interested in learning more about Study Abroad? Join the Study Abroad Info Session on Wed 11/16 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm in Fisk 201. Lunch will be provided!
The Goldwater Scholarship grants scholarships to undergraduates who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering (the full list of disciplines is available at the bottom of the Goldwater Scholarship’s eligibility guidelines). Both sophomores and juniors are eligible to apply, though in most cases juniors are most competitive. All applicants must be actively engaged in research in addition to their courseworkto be considered for this scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship does have a monetary component ($7500 in the senior year those those who apply as a junior or $7500 in the junior year and again in the senior year for those that receive the award as a sophomore). But even more importantly, winning the Goldwater serves as a marker of early academic promise that can help students secure future fellowships, admission to graduate school, and other important forms of recognition and access that will be an asset to building a career in research.
The Office of Fellowships will hold an info session and Q&A with Goldwater Scholar Anna Fehr (’23) on Thursday, November 3 in Fisk Hall Room 209 at 4:30pm. Join us there to learn more! Freshman, sophomores, and juniors are welcome. (Come listen, even if you might apply in a future year, rather than right now!)
Those interested in applying this year should complete the pre-application (available on the Goldwater Scholarship website) by November 18, 2022 at the very latest. Reach out to fellowships@wesleyan.edu with any questions.