Cynthia Rockwell – Wesleyan University Magazine

2020 Issue 1May 28, 2020July 23, 2020

Behind the Scenes: Wesleyan Videographer Hohne Takes Film to Sundance

Dennis Hohne (above, right), one of the three videographers in Wesleyan’s Office of Communications, took time away from campus in January to bring his own project, Dia de la Madre, to the 2020…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

On Retirement: Reflections on 30 Years at Wesleyan

I have had the best job in the world since 1989, when I joined the staff at Wesleyan’s Office of Public Information (now University Communications). Editing the Class Notes section of this magazine was an immersion exper…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020July 13, 2022

The Politics of Dance

Professor Hari Krishnan examines and reclaims the original power of Bharatanatyam, the hereditary courtesan dance from S…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 6, 2020

Eury German ’16: Dance as a Conduit to Self

Eury German ’16 had never taken a dance course until he stepped on Wesleyan’s campus. “I grew up in like a Latinx, male…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Tuned IN

Question: Is WESU-FM, 88.1, the oldest college radio station? Answer: Maybe. Station Manager Benjamin Michael, who ha…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

WESU DJs Recall Their ‘Radio Days’

Doug Berman ’84, two-time Peabody Award-winning NPR producer and creator of Car Talk and Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

StARTup Incubator: Students Learn to Launch Original Business Ideas through CSPL 239

Middletown may not have an aquarium, but it does have a “Shark Tank” of sorts. In a similar spirit to the eponymous hit …

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

StARTup Shark Tank: Students Pitch Next-Gen Socially Conscious Ventures

As part of the CSPL 239 Startup Incubator course offered in Fall 2019, students practiced pitching their startup busines…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 6, 2020

Krishnan’s Students: “Feeling the Dance; Thanking the Ground; Releasing the Diva”

Mickey Kieu ’19, English major, dance minor, now a dancer in China: In the classroom, Hari Krishnan is a ve…

2020 Issue 1April 24, 2020May 1, 2020

The Gift of Godot

When still an undergrad biology major at Wesleyan, Jay Levy ’60, Hon. ’96, MD followed an intriguing literary reference …