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2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

The Allbritton Center’s Programs

The Allbritton Center, made possible by the generous support of Robert ’92 and Elena ’93 Allbritton, is home to two new programs that intersect prominently with the public sphere: The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, which continues Wesleyan’s commitment to preparing students…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

A LEADER IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY

After being covered in a layer of black grime, the 30,000 square–foot newly renovated Allbritton Center is revealing its red brick exterior and stained glass windows. Its heavy, wood doors have been refabricated and are …

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ALEXANDER LEVI ’90

Alexander Levi ’90 has fond memories of rowing on the Connecticut River with the Wesleyan crew, and now, as an architect, he has returned to a river with an ambitious outreach project. Since January, Levi and his wife, a…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

An Introspective Setting

For the past several years Jewish students on campus have put up a modest Sukkah to celebrate the festival of Sukkot, but this year the project took on new life with award–winning results. Rabbi David Leipziger …

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

RAY MATSUMIYA ’96

In a small and decidedly unpretentious dining area at Somerville High School outside Boston, about 40 teachers raise a din of conversation so loud that it’s hard to be heard. Teachers have a lot to say to each other, but…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

NEELY BRUCE

When the organizers of Make Music New York went looking for someone to conduct the East Coast premiere of Henry Brant’s Orbits in the Guggenheim Museum, they were led naturally to Professor of Music Neely Bruce. …

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

DR. JOSEPH WRIGHT ’79

Dr. Joseph Wright ’79 had an opportunity in July to deliver a message personally to President Barack Obama: Just because children are covered by health insurance doesn’t mean they have access to a physician. Wri…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Coming to Wesleyan from her hometown of Rowayton, Conn., in the fall of 1977, Barbara Martin Herzlich ’81 starred in three sports for the Cardinals. Beginning with field hockey, she earned four varsity letters while beco…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 16, 2014

ANGUS MCCULLOUGH

Angus McCullough ’10, a studio art major concentrating in architecture, is one of seven finalists among nearly 400 competitors worldwide in an architectural design contest seeking new visions for the Grand Concourse in t…

2009 Issue 3December 20, 2009April 28, 2014

On Air

BY TRACEY O’SHAUGHNESSY, MALS ’02 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART It started with moxie. From the time two cunning Clark Hall students slithered through Wesleyan’s maintenance tunnels and hooked a small transmitter to i…