Smoke Signals

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Smoke Signals

ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GEORGE BURNS HAD AT LEAST ONE THING IN COMMON: Both believed a good cigar is essential to happiness. Huxley said a cigar is "much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear." But how should one choose a good cigar? Joyce Jacobsen and Peter Kilby, both …

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Who Owns The Past?

KARIN HALVORSEN '97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The archaeologists around t…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Biology’s New Data Mavens

PEOPLE ARE DATA. That's the mantra for a new breed of biologists who use computers to sort through vast databases comprising billions of bits of information about genes. They are searching for patterns that reveal why o…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Out Of This World

MARTHA GILMORE IS GOING TO MARS. Again. In fact, this time she's not only responsible for helping pick a landing site, she'll be doing some of the driving on the red planet, too. Gilmore, an assistant professor of earth…