Shapiro ’74, Silverberg ’76 Gift Builds on Creative Writing Center

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 14, 2013

Shapiro ’74, Silverberg ’76 Gift Builds on Creative Writing Center

A $3 million gift to support writing programs at Wesleyan was announced March 1 at the Board of Trustees dinner on campus. The gift from John Shapiro ’74 and Shonni Silverberg ’76, a Wesleyan trustee, builds on their 2009 gift establishing the Shapiro Creative Writing Center. Shapiro said h…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 14, 2013

Fries ’85 Gives $2 Million to Support Cinema Archives Endowment Fund

Mike Fries ’85, president and chief executive officer of Liberty Global, has made a gift of $2 million in support of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives Endowment Fund. His gift was celebrated in February at Wesleyan’s an…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 29, 2013

Scholarship, Tenacity, and Brilliance: Remember Paul Schaffel ’12

[caption id="attachment_795" align="alignleft" width="300"] Paul Schaffel ’12. Photo: Bridget Read ’12.[/caption] Paul …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Wesleyan Creates New College of Film and the Moving Image

[caption id="attachment_798" align="alignleft" width="300"] Center for Film Studies. Photo: Olivia Drake.[/caption] Wes…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

BYO [Water] Bottle: Campus Environmental Initiative

Thanks to a student-driven initiative, environmentally harmful plastic bottles of water are disappearing from the We…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

Szegedy-Maszak Delivers West Coast WESeminars

[caption id="attachment_810" align="alignleft" width="300"] Andy Szegedy-Maszak, Professor of Classical Studies.Phot…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 14, 2013

Reunion in Jogjakarta

Two ethnomusicology graduates, Wayne Forrest ’74, MA ’77, and Ed Van Ness ’69, MA ’81, still share their love for world music when they meet up years later. Forrest recounts the story: Undergraduate students of …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 25, 2013

“Commitment, Humor, and Passion”: Obama Recalls Alex Okrent ’05

[caption id="attachment_813" align="alignleft" width="300"] Alex Okrent ’05 was memorialized in The New York Times …

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Scholar Athlete

[caption id="attachment_802" align="alignleft" width="300"] Midfielder Rory O’Neill ’13. Photo: John Van Vlack.[/cap…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013October 22, 2013

Fat Studies and Thin Privledge

[caption id="attachment_794" align="alignleft" width="300"] Abigail C. Saguy ’92. Photo: Dotan Saguy.[/caption] In her new book, What’s Wrong with Fat?, (Oxford University Press) Abigail C. Saguy ’92 provides a co…