USAID IN D.C.: HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
[caption id="attachment_5581" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] Four Wesleyan graduates collaborate on USAID’s crucial water projects, just down the avenue from the White House: John Pasch ’93, Christ…
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A NATIONAL LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY EMERGES
When historian David B. Potts ’60 published his first history of Wesleyan—Wesleyan University, 1831–1910: Collegiate Ent…
FROM SOUL BAND TO TELEVISION GOLD
The immensely talented and inspiring Carter Bays ’97 and Craig Thomas ’97, creators, writers and producers for the CBS h…
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES
Tula Telfair’s epic and massive landscape paintings fill the walls of Wesleyan’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery. They ca…
OPENING DOORS TO HIGHER EDUCATION
[caption id="attachment_5246" align="alignleft" width="2265"] Born in Ethiopia, Nebiyu Daniel dreamed of going to colleg…
NEVER GIVE IN
[caption id="attachment_4169" align="alignleft" width="1690"] Coach Whalen focuses on Wesleyan’s tradition of excellence…
LIBERAL EDUCATION?
The broad contextual education that Wesleyan and peer institutions offer is frequently critiqued, sometimes even excoria…
PUTTING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY INTO ACTION
[caption id="attachment_4132" align="alignleft" width="1690"] Scott Plous’ Social Psychology MOOC was the most popular e…
A HEALTHY APPETITE FOR SCIENCE: MARY ROACH ’81
[caption id="attachment_1767" align="alignleft" width="240"] Reviewers have consistently praised Mary Roach ’81 for her insightful research into quirky topics.[/caption]
Have you ever wondered why humans prefer …
THE COST OF NOT LEARNING FROM THE PAST
[caption id="attachment_1776" align="alignleft" width="245"] RIchard Grossman, professor of economics.[/caption]
On Saturday, June 28, 1919, the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdina…