2006 Issue 1

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When members of the Wesleyan Class of ’07 gives their senior gift to alma mater, it will be a donation to financial aid of more than $10,000. Mary Livingston ’04, assistant director of the Wesleyan Annual Fund for Excel…

NESCAC Coach of the Year John Crooke reports: The New England Regional meet was the major highlight for both men’s and women’s teams in 2005. The women placed 7th in the toughest region in the country and the men placed…

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 a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

THE BONANG, KOTO, AXATSE, AND TABLA--musical instruments that may be unknown to many people--are crammed along with hundreds of other equally intriguing items from the World Music collection in a locked storeroom small…