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2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

Alumni Named Award-Winners at R&C 2011

The Reunion & Commencement Alumni Association honors included Baldwin medalists, Distinguished Alumni awards, and professors recognized with the Binswanger Prize. The Baldwin Medal, which pays tribute to Judge Raymond E. Baldwin ’16, was first awarded during Wesleyan’s Sesquicentennial in 1981.…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Fellow Alumni, Think of it as Foss Hill in the springtime. Or a late-night discussion at your fingertips—as well as instant access to services the university offers its alumni and updates on alumni networking in yo…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

LETTER HOME

Dear All, As I packed up my home in Mali and prepared to catch a flight to Yaounde, Cameroon, I wasn’t nervous about culture shock. I imagined that having spent much of the past four years in Sub-Saharan Africa, includi…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

Campus Life: International Student Photo Contest

Wesleyan students submitted more than 300 photos for the 2011 International Student Photo Contest, sponsored by the Office of International Studies and the Office of Student Activities. Of these, 46 were selected as fina…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

Conversations: Erica Chenoweth, assistant professor of government

Erica Chenoweth, assistant professor of government, is the author of the forthcoming book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. How did you become interested in the study of “civil resi…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE

“Squash is a unique sport,” says Meherazade Sumariwalla ’12, captain of Wesleyan Women’s Varsity Squash. “It’s both a team and an individual competition—but we are always a team. We are there for each other and we put th…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

In Tokyo When the Earthquake Hit… Mary Alice Haddad saw firsthand how the Japanese people coped with a devastating earthquake

When the earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, hit, I was emerging from a subway in Tokyo about 220 miles from the epicenter. I was on my way to collect my children from school when it felt like someone grabbed the end of the es…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

FIVE QUESTIONS: William Johnston, Professor of history, Science in Society, and East Asian Studies

Q: How did you become interested in the history of diseases, and more specifically, flu outbreaks? A: While in graduate school I was drawn to the history of medicine in Japan because it was in that field that the Japane…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

National Trust for Historic Preservation Honors Middletown’s Main Street as “Most Romantic”

When the National Trust for Historic Preservation went hunting for the nation’s “Most Romantic Main Streets,” Middletown topped the list. Here is what the Trust said: “Middletown’s allure includes an artful Main…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Marshall Johnson’s Research is Out of This World

For the past two years, astronomy major Marshall Johnson ’11 used the Van Vleck Observatory’s 24-inch Perkin Telescope to study the transits of “exoplanets,” or planets outside our solar system that orbit another star. …