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2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

RELIGION

Professor of Religion Jan Willis, who has devoted part of the last seven years to helping a group of elderly Ladakhi nuns, was honored as an “Outstanding Woman in Buddhism” for the year 2009 for making an “exceptional contribution to Buddhism.” She was selected by a distinguished committee of Buddhi…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

THE “WU” MYSTERY

When John Chambless was rummaging through a pile of old books at his mother’s home in Newark, Del., one mammoth album with an ornate and intertwined “WU” stuck out. Curious, he opened it and discovered more than 50 black…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ART

In her first solo photography exhibition, held this winter at Wesleyan’s Zilkha Gallery, Sasha Rudensky ’01 presented Remains (2004–08), which explores the political and social transformation of the former Soviet Union b…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Thirty years ago, the United States opened its first embassy in the People’s Republic of China as our nation began reestablishing its relations with the country. Vera Schwarcz, professor of history and East Asian studies…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

CREATIVE WRITING

John M. Shapiro ’74 and Shonni J. Silverberg ’76, MD, of New York City, have made a gift of $3.5 million to transform the teaching of writing at Wesleyan and endow the Shapiro Creative Writing Center. “During my…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME

Leaving his mark on the world of road racing in April 1968, when he captured the title in the Boston Marathon with a time of 2:22.17, Ambrose “Amby” Burfoot ’68 became the first collegian to win the world’s oldest contin…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

ADMISSION

In November, when the first round of early decision applications concluded, the Wesleyan admission staff saw that applications were up 34 percent from the previous year. The staff maintained cautious enthusiasm. …

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009May 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Wesleyan alumni know our proud history of engaging with the world, but it is always nice to have one’s self–perception acknowledged by other institutions. During the break between semesters, the Carnegie Foundation for t…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Colorado SURPRISE

BY LYNDSEY LAYTON ’86 After a key Senate vote in early February on the economic stimulus package, Michael Bennet ’87 stepped into the cloakroom off the Senate floor, took out his cell phone, and dialed his father. Doug…

2009 Issue 1January 20, 2009April 28, 2014

Almost Human

BY KAREN GUZMAN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL BURKHART AND STEVEN JACARUSO The era of Hollywood’s fevered imagination has finally arrived. The computers are taking over. Machines, robots, artificial intelligence agents, whateve…