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2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

KUDOS TO DR. MICHAEL GREENBERG ’76

Flipping through Issue 3, 2015, I came across the Newsmaker profile of Michael Greenberg ’76, PhD, in the Class Notes. The writeup was appropriately congratulatory, but he deserves so, so much more. Among other disorders, Dr. Greenberg’s lab is currently working on Rett Syndrome, a single gene disor…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

COMMENT ON PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION

For a retired physician now in my second career as an instructor in biology at the undergraduate level this article was of great practical interest. I often tell my students that a good indicator of how well they underst…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

ARGUS CONTROVERSY

Black Lives Matter. It was interesting to note the differing reactions of Wesleyan students to an Argus article using those words (Wesleyan, 2015, issue 3, page 13). It is not my intention to come down on either side of …

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016November 13, 2017

9/11 TRAUMA RESPONSE RELEVANT TO OTHER GROUPS

[caption id="attachment_6489" align="alignleft" width="200"] Clifford Chanin ’75, vice president for education and public programs for the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, in the museum’s soaring Foundation Hall. Phot: …

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

PHILIP TRAGER ’56: PHOTOGRAPHING INA

[caption id="attachment_7495" align="aligncenter" width="2201"] Photographing Ina, an exhibition of photographs by Phili…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

LETTER HOME: THE SUDANESE OF AMMAN

My biggest culture shock when returning back to America from Amman, Jordan, was seeing pictures of Za’atari Camp in Jord…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART EXHIBITION AT ZILKHA—FIRST AT U.S. UNIVERSITY

We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, the first gallery exhibition highlighting artists born after the Cultur…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

NEELY BRUCE’S DRAMATIC ORATORIO PREMIERES

[caption id="attachment_7027" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Neely Bruce.[/caption] “Circular 14: The Apotheosis of Aristides,” a new dramatic oratorio composed by Neely Bruce, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Mu…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

ALL THAT IS JAZZ

Harlem Hieroglyphs, the new album by Adjunct Professor of Music Jay Hoggard ’76, MA ’91, represents both the culmination…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

PUBLISHING HOLOCAUST MEMOIR NIGHT FOR MUSLIM STUDENTS

[caption id="attachment_7063" align="aligncenter" width="2250"] Max Bevilacqua ’12 found that Elie Wiesel’s Night became a cultural bridge on his Fulbright as a teacher in Indonesia.[/caption] It doesn’t seem an obvio…