The Big Hopper Reveal (video)
The 32 students in Professor Voth and Assistant Professor Moller's sections of IDEAS 170 spent half the fall semester creating a device of their own design that would hop off the table, but only after…
2018 Issue 3
On Solid Common Ground
A cosmic creative alumni collaboration makes a beautiful musical together: Director Tyler Thomas, choreographer Nora Tho…
President’s Letter: Interdisciplinary Education
IDEAS is now a minor, and I suspect before too long it will take its place among the interdisciplinary majors offered at the university. I can hardly wait to see what faculty and students make of this addition to our edu…
IDEAS: Putting the Art in Smart Design
Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thriv…
Thinkers, Doers, Makers: The Inspired Ways Three Wesleyan Faculty Members Stock Young Designers’ Toolkits
The Space Between
Associate Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza pushes her students to work across disciplines and towa…
Historical Row: The WESt Coast
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the best-known landmarks in American history, at once an engineering marvel and an aest…
The Invisible Woman: Avery Trufelman ’13
Avery Trufelman ’13 knows how to get inside your head: she goes through your ears.
Trufelman is a producer on the show …
Bill Shapiro ’87 and What We Keep
For their new book, Bill Shapiro ’87 and Naomi Wax interviewed hundreds of people about the single object that brings th…
Alumni Bookshelf
Helen Riess ’78 with Liz Neporent
The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, …
Faculty Bookshelf
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor and Chair of American Studies and Professor, Anthropology
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Soverei…