Persistence Pays Off
With a lifelong love of planetary science, Professor Martha "Marty" Gilmore blazes new paths for Venus exploration.
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Short Features
View AllWhat Is . . . Title IX?
On June 23, 1972, Title IX was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon. Fifty years later and many still ask: What IS Title IX?
Most people think Title IX applies only to sports or sexual misconduct, but those are only 2 of the 10 key areas addressed by the law with regard to creating an educationa…
Recommended Reading: Books by Hinton ’85, Kimball ’11, and Others
Alexander Laban Hinton ’85
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. (NYU Press, 2021)
Although the election of Donald Trump in 2016 came as a surprise to many, it wasn’t a shock f…
Letters
View AllPresident’s Letter: Thinking Beyond the Pandemic
I write this column as we approach the last week of fall semester classes. What a term it has been! We arrived in Middletown in late summer as the Delta variant was surging in different parts of the country, and although…
Editor’s Note: The Value of Community
I have a confession to make: I missed Arrival Day this year.
It’s always notable because of what it represents: new faces, new hope, a new start. This year, however, was more poignant than ever, as it wasn’t just fres…
Letter to the Editor: Experimenting with Computers and Art in the ’70s
It was with personal bemused interest and irony that I read the article Embracing Unpredictability in your latest issue. Because this was not the first time that someone at Wesleyan endeavored to apply computer code…
Letter to the Editor: Professor Christina Crosby’s Lasting Legacy
I read with both admiration and sadness Wesleyan magazine’s article on the life and recent death of Professor Christina Crosby, A Hard Life, Well Lived. For reasons I’ll explain, I had no idea she was at the school despi…
Letter to the Editor: Moments of Inspiration
My family has broad roots at Wesleyan. My brother Brad was a Wesleyan athlete in the ’70s, I earned my MALS at Wesleyan when Wesleyan professors still elevated the landscape of that program, my youngest son graduated with a degree in Creative Writing and Economics in ’18, and two other sons—both teachers—have studied in th…