Lauren Weber ’94 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2013 Issue 2October 7, 2013February 26, 2014

JOSH LERNER ’00: PAINTING DEMOCRACY’S VIBRANT CANVAS

[caption id="attachment_696" align="alignleft" width="300"] Josh Lerner ’00 directs the Participatory Budgeting Project—or PB. This New York-based nonprofit assists citizens in taking on a key role in community budget decisions. Photo: Matt Harvey[/caption] Every four years, Americans parti…

2013 Issue 2October 7, 2013February 26, 2014

HELPING KIDS DO ‘THE WORK OF GROWING UP’: STACEY MATTHIAS ’92

[caption id="attachment_688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stacey Matthias ’94 likens her research on child development — “understanding how a child’s mind works”— to a “mind-blowing” course at Wesleyan taught b…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Digital Wesleyan’s New York Network

IN THE SPRING of 1994, during my senior year at Wesleyan, I stopped by the computer labs at the Science Center once or twice a day, sat down at a station, and faced a monitor blinking with DOS commands. I’d peck a few ch…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 2, 2014

Rwanda’s Hard Recovery

IN RWANDA, MOUNTAINS STRETCH TOWARD THE HORIZON in every direction. This undulating landscape gave rise to one of the country’s early monikers, when colonial travelers labeled it “the land of a thousand hills.” The hills…