Ice Breaker: Alison Criscitiello ’03
Glaciologist and climate scientist Alison Criscitiello ’03 scales the world's tallest mountains, pushing the limits in pursuit of high-risk, high-reward impactful science.
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2024 Spring Issue
From the President: Doing Our Part to Shore Up Democracy
There is a clear and present danger to American democracy and to American higher education: populist authoritarianism. This is no secret, and yet many in higher education would prefer not to talk about it. Instead, we f…
From the Editor: Dreaming Big
As I sit down to write this, we have just celebrated the turn of another year. Welcome 2024! Of course, with the new year comes the requisite looks back on the year past along with resolutions and goals for the year ahe…
Freeing the Life of the Mind
Building on its legacy of leadership in prison education, Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education opens doors to incarce…
Black Raspberry: An Oral History
A creative force has rapidly been gaining momentum on campus. A music group about more than just music. An artist colle…
CoDES: Bridging Art and Engineering
The new College of Design & Engineering Studies connects technology, creativity, and social science to help student…
In Defense of Democracy: Ian Bassin ’98
When he answered an out-of-the-blue phone call in autumn 2023 and learned he’d been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship—more…
Professor Andrew Szegedy-Maszak: A Classic, 50 Years in the Making
“Classics keep changing and that’s what makes it exciting,” says Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Jane A. Seney Professor of Gree…
Alison Criscitiello ’03 in Her Own Words: Canada’s Müller Ice Cap
I heard the Arctic wolves call as we skied down to the sea ice edge in Expedition Fiord. I’m so used to working on th…
Beyond Capitalism: “Degrowth Communism” for a Sustainable Future
Capital in the Anthropocene by Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito ’09 was an unexpected blockbuster in his home country of…