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2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

FLYING CARPETS BY SCHORR IN ZILKHA; NYC GALLERY IN JANUARY

PROFESSOR of Art David Schorr’s Flying Carpets—New Paintings by David Schorr opened at Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery this fall with a reception and gallery talk. is solo exhibition and the site-specific installation, Flying Carpets, revisits Schorr’s childhood days spent playin…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

AN ORGANIC DECISION PROCESS FOR JENNIFER TUCKER ’91

What does it mean for an organic chicken to live its life outside? Lest you think there is an easy answer, listen to Jennifer Tucker ’91, second-in-command at the National Organic Program of the U.S. Departm…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

FECTEAU ’91, NELSON ’94 RECEIVE MACARTHUR GENIUS GRANTS

Two Wesleyan alumni are recipients of 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships, commonly known as “genius grants.” Vincent Fecteau ’91 and Maggie Nelson ’94 each received a no-strings-attached $625,000 grant fo…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

Homecoming and Family Weekend

A look back at this year’s Homecoming and Family Weekend fun! …

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Gone are the days of plastic trays and mystery meat Mondays, of limited choices and uninspired institutional fare. Today’s college campus is a place where reusable to-go containers and water stations are as commonpla…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

FAMILY WEEKEND

Athletic contests, tailgating, the 24th Annual Dwight L. Greene Symposium, the 40th Annual Navaratri Festival, exhibitions, WESeminars, performances and more—and a 39—10 Cardinal football victory over Bowdoin—all mad…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

CREAM OF THE CROP

For Ronnybrook Farm Dairy owners Kate Osofsky ’94 and her father, Rick ’66, farming is both a second career and a return to their roots. Established in 1941 and located in Ancramdale, New York, Ronnybrook Fa…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

GAME ON

Senior Devon Carrillo ’17 steps adroitly through a sea of Williams purple en route to a three-touchdown performance and 110 total yards. The Cardinals posted a record-breaking 59-14 victory over the Ephs in Williamstow…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

CONVERSATION WITH A FILM CRITIC

What does a film critic really do? Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies Jeanine Basinger talks with New York Times film critic A.O. Scott P’18 about why we need film critics. A popular event during Re…

2016 Issue 3December 1, 2016December 13, 2018

Mapping the OBESITY EPIDEMIC

William H. Dietz ’66, MD, PhD, director of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at George Washington University, is one of the leading experts on obesity. In 1997, as the director of the D…