2002 Issue 3 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2002 Issue 3July 30, 2002March 23, 2015

Clueing in the Undergrads

Dear Alumni, I find it hard to believe, but I graduated from Wesleyan 20 years ago. At that time, I didn’t even know about the Alumni Association, let alone consider the existence of a group brought together across the decades by this common experience: a Wesleyan education. My first experience wi…

2002 Issue 3July 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. DOMINIQUE BROWNING ’77 Around the House and in the Garden (Scribner, 2002) For several years, House & Garden editor–in–chie…

2002 Issue 3July 30, 2002March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: Rediscovering an Amazing Life

In her acclaimed new book, Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth–Century Congo (Viking, 2002), Pagan Kennedy ’84 resurrects the story of a forgotten African American explorer. I met William Henry…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE DAVISON RARE BOOK ROOM AT FIFTY

George W. Davison was born March 25, 1872, in Rockville Centre on Long Island. Always a high achiever, he matriculated at Wesleyan at age 16. A classics major, he excelled in academics as well as athletics, and he was in…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Q & A: Gruen Contends Ethics and Genetics Are Out of Sync

Cloning is a hot topic right now, and Lori Gruen is in the middle of the debate. But she’s not a scientist or a medical doctor; she’s a philosopher with a strong sense of social justice and a passion for a well-reasoned …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Wesleyan Astronomers Find Possible New Cradle for Planets

In the era of the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the most significant of recent discoveries in astronomy originated with Wesleyan undergraduates working with the small, 24-inch telescope in the Van Vleck Observatory. &n…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Writer’s Life Recalled, Horgan House Is Dedicated

The Russell family’s former carriage house behind their High Street mansion became a cultural center for Wesleyan in 1962, when Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Horgan, who joined the faculty as director of the former…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Experiments in Economics

The scene may not be as frenzied as the pit of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, but students in a class taught by Assistant Professor of Economics Tanya Rosenblat are actively trading—in pens. Rosenblat is handi…

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Wesleyan Parent Is Charter Member, Alumni-Elected Trustees Join Board

The annual alumni election of trustees produced three new board members: Mike McKenna ’73, David Hill ’86, and Oyeshola Olatoye ’96. McKenna is president and chief executive officer of Marsteller Advertising, a …

2002 Issue 3July 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Image Maker

Since his childhood, Professor of Art J. Seeley has had one continuing quest: to find new and creative ways to print realistic images in ink on paper. “My mother recalled that I was working with potato prints and rubber …