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Category 2014 Issue 1Posted on

UNLEASHING THE POWER OF STATS

[caption id="attachment_1770" align="alignleft" width="238"] Psychologist Lisa Dierker.[/caption] There are “number” people, and there are “word” people. Left brains, and right brains. “Quants” and English majors. Or so most of us believe, and Lisa Dierker was no different when she entered Ohio Sta…
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Category 2013 Issue 1Posted on

FAR FROM HOME

  [caption id="attachment_587" align="alignleft" width="300"] Nandita Vijayaraghavan ’13.Photo: John Van Vlack.[/caption] For most of her childhood, Nandita Vijayaraghavan ’13 grew up in the conservative Southern …
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Category 2013 Issue 1Posted on

BEING THE CHANGE

[caption id="attachment_573" align="alignleft" width="300"] Musician Dar Williams ’89 composes songs and is part of community life in the small New York town where she lives with her family. In the fall 2012 semester, sh…
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Category 2012 Issue 3Posted on

Ripple Effects

By Tom Christopher IT TAKES COURAGE—and chutzpah—to quote to a Wesleyan audience Ronald Reagan’s assertions about trees being the worst polluters. But James Workman is intent on upsetting the status quo. That, in a fund…
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