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Author: Jeff Harder

Words, Music, and AI: Inside Wesleyan’s Music Video Production Course
Category Long FormPosted on February 20, 2025February 20, 2025

Words, Music, and AI: Inside Wesleyan’s Music Video Production Course

Music videos used to be the domain of hitmakers with million-dollar budgets, big crews, and record-industry backing. But with AI-driven software and access to advanced Digital Design Commons tech…
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Richard Slotkin Investigates Our National Myths
Category 2024 Fall IssuePosted on October 28, 2024

Richard Slotkin Investigates Our National Myths

Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies Richard Slotkin spent a career tracing the myths that have been with…
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(Un)Conventional Summer: Luca D’Agruma ’27 at the Democratic National Convention
Category 2024 Fall IssuePosted on October 28, 2024October 29, 2024

(Un)Conventional Summer: Luca D’Agruma ’27 at the Democratic National Convention

Ahead of the first presidential election in which he’s eligible to cast a ballot , 19-year-old Luca D’Agruma ’27 had th…
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Can Bolivia’s White Gold Power a Green Revolution?
Category 2024 Summer IssuePosted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

Can Bolivia’s White Gold Power a Green Revolution?

Bolivia is home to the world's largest deposits of lithium, arguably the most coveted component of a global clean energ…
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30 Years of PCU
Category 2024 Summer IssuePosted on July 9, 2024July 9, 2024

30 Years of PCU

If you channel-surfed your way through Sunday afternoons in the late 1990s, chances are you watched PCU at least once—a…
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A Path Less Taken: Terrion Thirsty ’25
Category 2024 Summer IssuePosted on July 9, 2024

A Path Less Taken: Terrion Thirsty ’25

When Terrion Thirsty ’25 joined the United States Marine Corps, it was supposed to be the start of the long military ca…
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In Defense of Democracy: Ian Bassin ’98 
Category 2024 Spring IssuePosted on March 2, 2024

In Defense of Democracy: Ian Bassin ’98 

When he answered an out-of-the-blue phone call in autumn 2023 and learned he’d been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship—more…
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Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak: A Classic, 50 Years in the Making 
Category 2024 Spring IssuePosted on March 2, 2024

Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak: A Classic, 50 Years in the Making 

“Classics keep changing and that’s what makes it exciting,” says Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Jane A. Seney Professor of Gree…
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Vote of Confidence
Category 2023 Fall IssuePosted on November 7, 2023December 20, 2023

Vote of Confidence

After half a century of lackluster turnout, young Americans are voting at record-high rates. What’s driving this swell …
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Ghost In the Machine
Category 2023 Summer IssuePosted on June 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Ghost In the Machine

By using artificial intelligence to generate text that sounds like human-authored prose, ChatGPT signals a fraught new …
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