Persistence Pays Off
With a lifelong love of planetary science, Professor Martha "Marty" Gilmore blazes new paths for Venus exploration.
By …
Short Features
View All
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…
Online Exclusives
View All
Words to Live and Lead By
“Lead from your own personal experience. That’s something I’ve always found helpful when meeting someone new. Meet folks where they’re at, and be ready to share your own perspectiv…
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…