Sarah Hann ’95 and Harlan Weaver ’99: “Animal Studies Fellowship Draws Alumni to Campus”

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 18, 2014

Sarah Hann ’95 and Harlan Weaver ’99: “Animal Studies Fellowship Draws Alumni to Campus”

Sarah Hann ’95, a veterinarian with a specialty in acupuncture who is concerned with current agricultural practices, and Harlan Weaver ’99, a newly minted Ph.D. in the history of consciousness and the companion of two “pit bulls,” were two fellows in the Human-Animal Studies Fellowship Program this …

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Direct Action

JAN ELIASBERG ’74 is on set; as the director, she’s the calm in the center of all activity. Soon, she’ll say the word and a building will blow up, two cars will catch fire, and five people will “die.” At that point, she’…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Rosenthals Present Folk Musician Pete Seeger In His Own Words

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Rob Rosenthal recently had the unique opportunity to travel back over much of the 20th century through the eyes of a living legend: folk musician and activist Pete Seeger. …

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Wesleyan Mourns Sysco Founder, CEO Woodhouse

John Frederick Woodhouse ’53, of Houston, died October 29, 2012. He was 81. A member of Sigma Chi, he received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan with high distinction in economics and earned his master’s degree from Ha…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 7, 2014

French Diplomat and Honored Alumnus Dies

Jean François-Poncet ’47, Hon. ’80, French diplomat, businessman, senator, and Secretary General, died July 18, 2012. Wesleyan celebrated his achievements at the Commencement ceremonies in 1980, when François-Poncet del…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Brenner ’92, MD: A Magnetic Treatment for Depression

When Grant Brenner’92, M.D., looks at the future of psychiatry, he’s more likely to see magnets than pills, equally likely to see brain imaging as transformative talk therapy. An interpersonal-relational psychoanalyst, h…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Martin ’02 Cooks Up “Stovetop Travel”

The idea came to her in the middle of the night. “I woke up my husband and told him, ‘I know what I should do: I should cook a meal from every country in the world, one per week,’” says Sasha Foppiano Martin ’02. So b…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Students Volunteer for Prison Program

Wesleyan’s innovative Center for Prison Education (Wesleyan, issue #1, 2012) is providing an education not only for inmates but also for Wesleyan students who are serving the program with stimulating internships, an oppo…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

Occupying Wall Street: An Ethnography

What follows is an abridged excerpt of a final paper by Hailey Sowden ’15 for Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Assistant Professor Gillian Goslinga notes that Hailey researched the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012March 7, 2014

DLA Piper Establishes Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender

DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms, has given Wesleyan $500,000 to establish the Amy Schulman Fund for Women and Gender, which will support work in this field at Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities. Schulm…