Weightless But Weighty

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Weightless But Weighty

Joshua Boger ’73, a Wesleyan trustee and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, won a charity auction for an opportunity to fly gravity-defying parabolic flight patterns with a couple of dozen individuals and Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest physicists of the last 50 years, who is paralyzed by ALS. The …

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Help Needed

MUZZY ROSENBLATT ’87 IS NAVIGATING THE STREETS OF LOWER MANHATTEN IN HIS VAN ON A SUMMER MORNING. We are stopped at a red light when we see a man on the sidewalk tracing an erratic path, from one pedestrian to another. R…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Silenced Genes

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Scott Holmes works with graduate students Kristen Martins-Taylor (foreground) and Minakshi Poddar on the molecular genetics of gene silencing. For normal developm…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Voice For Immigrants

TOURISTS FLOCK TO NASHVILLE FOR GRAND OLE OPRY SHOWS that have defined the city as the capital of country music since 1925. Downtown, in the Tennessee statehouse, a different spectacle has provoked considerable attention…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Vineyard Havens

JEFF MORGAN ’75 POURS A TASTE OF HIS COVENANT WINE at a picnic table in the backyard of his home in California’s Napa Valley. It is an outstanding cabernet, highly rated by both Wine Spectator and the hugely influential …