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During the 185th Commencement ceremony on May 28, John ’62 and Gina Driscoll were honored with the Raymond E. Baldwin Medal, the highest award of the Alumni Association. John and Gina have each provided exemplary service…

Wesleyan’s College of the Environment (COE) has received two major gifts that together will provide $6.5 million in endowment to support its programs. Essel Bailey ’66 and his wife, Menakka, have increased their suppo…

[caption id="attachment_8505" align="alignnone" width="1400"] PHOTO: Rebecca Goldfarb Terry '19 During the dedication of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Trustee Mike Fries ’85 spoke on how Wesleyan had enlarged his …

BY JUDITH NEWMAN ’81 Judith Newman ’81 is the author of To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines (Harper Collins, August 2017). She lives in Manhattan with her twin sons, Henry a…

In 1977, Boston ophthalmologist Dr. Robin Cook ’62 published a book that would spawn a new literary genre, change the public’s perception of medicine (and doctors), and a launch a literary career. That book was Coma—a me…

Matthew Palmer ’88 is director of the Oce of South Central Europe in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian A
airs. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished graduat…

KAREN DONFRIED ’84 Karen Donfried is president of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a nonprofit focused on strengthening transatlantic relations and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with seven…

Emy Matesan, assistant professor of government at Wesleyan, focuses on Middle East politics, particularly security and political violence, democratization, and Islamist movements. In Egypt and Indonesia, Matesan conducte…