Magazine Editor – Page 45 – Wesleyan University Magazine

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. His study, “First Results from the Wesleyan Transiting Exoplanet Program…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Say Fromage: Wesleyan Cheese Co-op Debuts with 400 Members

At first blush, it’s all about the cheese. But Zachary Malter ’13 says the new Wesleyan Cheese Co-op can be more than a source of variations on Gouda, cheddar and provolone—it’s a social and political experience…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Memorial Skating Party

The first annual Brian P. Gottlieb ’88 Memorial Skating Party was held at Chelsea Piers Sky Rink in New York City on Jan. 23, and raised $310,000 to support a Wesleyan scholarship. Well over 300 alumni and frien…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Gamelan Ensemble Performs at Indonesian Embassy

Fresh from a performance at Crowell Concert Hall in March, Wesleyan’s Indonesian gamelan ensemble took its gongs to the nation’s capital for a pair of rare off-campus appearances. Led by Adjunct Professor of Mus…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 16, 2014

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection Clare Rogan, Curator

A recent acquisition at the Davison Art Center reveals an engaging intersection of early photography and science, undertaken by a little-known 19th-century Englishwoman. In 1843, only four years after the invention of ph…

2011 Issue 1January 2, 2011March 23, 2015