“POWERFUL AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING”
For this year’s First Year Matters program, incoming new students read Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric during the summer before their arrival on campus.
Rankine, a noted poet and autho…
Author: Magazine Editor
‘KEEP THE FOCUS ON PUERTO RICO,’ BY MARIA SANTANA ’98, CNN EN ESPANOL ANCHOR/CORRESPONDENT
When I arrived on the island of Puerto Rico on September 25, five days after category 4 Hurricane Maria tore over the …
THE BACKSTORY: THE COST OF SILENCE, BY BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM ’75
THE COST OF SILENCE: WHY WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT RACE AND WHY WE SHOULD
by Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75, Hon. ’15, P’04, PhD
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LETTERS
COULD THIS BE WHY?
Looking back at Wesleyan sports over half a century ago, among the NEICAA champions I remember were broad jumpers Ernie Dunn ’59, Jim Thomas ’61, and Dick Huddleston ’60, miler Steve Paranya ’61, wres…
FACULTY-STUDENT TEAM DISCOVERS SUPER-EARTHS
A team of scientists from Wesleyan, led by Associate Professor of Astronomy Seth Redfield and graduate student Prajwal…
ORAL HISTORIES, BY CHRISTINE FOSTER
In the 1960s, Wesleyan began to grow from a small college into a somewhat bigger, more diverse university. Scores of you…
A TRIBUTE TO RICHARD P. WILBUR, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BY LARRY D. CARVER
Editor’s Note: The poet Richard Wilbur, a former professor of English at Wesleyan (1957-77), died in October at the age of 96. The following tribute was composed by Larry D. Carver ‘66 on the occasion of Mr. Carver’s 50t…
JAZZ MUSICIAN SOREY MA’11 WINS MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIP
Tyshawn Sorey MA ’11, who joined Wesleyan’s faculty this fall as assistant professor of music, has been awarded a fellow…