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2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Q & A: Talking With Actress Halley Feiffer ’07

The multi-talented artist Halley Feiffer '07 has acted for several years. She has appeared in three critically acclaimed independent films, including Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale, in which she gives a lovely and intelligent performance. The film was released theatrically last fall and is …

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Unprecedented Star Cluster

A 14-year study by Wesleyan researchers has revealed a phenomenon that may indicate the forming of new planets or perhaps even the existence of young planets orbiting young sun-like stars more than 1,600 light years away…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Men’s Soccer Takes NESCAC Title

NESCAC Coach of the Year Geoffrey Wheeler reports: Wesleyan captured its first ever New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship in any sport when the men’s soccer team defeated Amherst an…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Largest Binge-eating Study Will Include Men

An internationally-recognized expert on eating disorders, Striegel-Moore says the four-year study will take place in Portland, Oregon, and will include male and female subjects between 18 and 50 years of age. The study i…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S ANNIVERSARIES

Wesleyan turns 175 in 2006. The official celebration will begin at Reunion and Commencement 2006. Institutional birthdays often occur in 25-year intervals. A quick look at the history of Wesleyan's anniversary c…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006April 25, 2014

Dance of the Genes

"One of the great lessons I've learned from Liz [Lerman] in the three years we've worked together is the importance of 'rattling around in somone else's universe,'" writes Center for the Arts director Pamela Tatge '84 in…

2005 Issue 4December 30, 2005September 30, 2014

Alumni Are Key to Wesleyan Excellence

Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle speaks to the impossibility of measuring certain pairs of observable phenomena with precision. It is doubtful Prof. Heisenberg had American higher education in mind; I bet he was…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Celestial Mystery Solved

The winking star created a sensation when Professor of Astronomy William Herbst and Catrina Hamilton-Drager Ph.D. ’04 introduced it at an astronomy conference three years ago. The two reported that the s…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Aided By Nature’s Pharmacy

When the tiger moth caterpillar becomes infected with potentially lethal parasites, it heads for a natural pharmacy. Remarkably, the caterpillar develops a stronger taste for chemicals specifically found in plan…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Leveraging Faculty Work

Peter Gottschalk can’t give students in his introductory religion class tickets for a flight to India to observe interactions between Hindus and Muslims, but they have the next best thing. Gottschalk, associate …