Watson Fellowship: Info session and Virtual Visit from Jocelyn Velasquez Baez ’23, Watson Fellow
12:15-1:15pm Thursday April 18, Fisk 201 or Zoom
At this event, we will introduce the Watson Fellowship and hear directly from Jocelyn Velasquez Baez ’23, who will be Zooming in from her world travels as a Watson Fellow. Her project, “Ethical Understandings of Traditional Medicine” focuses on how traditional medicine perceived within indigenous and ethnic communities. Engaging with traditional medicine practitioners, knowledge keepers, and community members around the world, Jocelyn is spending a year exploring their understandings of traditional medicine, and its future in the wider healthcare system.
Hybrid event: in person in Fisk 201, the Fries Center for Global Studies, or join remotely via Zoom. Pizza & salad will be served.
Register through WesNest if you’re coming in person, or if you want to attend online register here for the Zoom link.
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is open to all Wesleyan students; the deadline comes in the fall of senior year and candidates work on the application over the summer. Students of all class years are welcome to attend this event to learn about the Watson Fellowship (it’s never too early to learn!).