2011 Issue 2 – Page 2 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

The School That Rocks

By Eric Gershon ’98 When Teddy Gage ’05 saw Wesleyan classmate Andrew VanWyngarden’s face staring back at him in 2008 from an ad on the side of a New York City bus, he decided it was time to dig out the videos. Gage had been an English major at Wesleyan, but he took a lot of film classes and shot a…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Back to the Photographic Future?

By Tom Nugent Want to craft a stunning work of photo-art, then frame it and send it off to friends around the world—all in the space of a few minutes and without ever using a traditional camera? Allan Hoffman ’84 can s…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Alzheimer’s: Progress Toward Elusive Cure

By Peter Saalfield ’06 As a young neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in the early 1960s, Don Price ’56 often encountered elderly patients who were losing their memories. Typically the mental lapses were trivi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Unfathomable Waste

By Jan Ellen Spiegel It wasn’t as if Jonathan Bloom ’99 had dreamed of being a food waste expert. “Whenever anyone calls me a food waste expert, I just laugh. How can you hear that and not?” he asks. “I often say I nev…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: ELIZABETH C. WRIGHT, FOUNDING MOTHER

Wesleyan graduates have a long tradition of founding educational institutions. Some were established to help right social wrongs. The Colored Normal School in Richmond, Va., the first public high school for African Ameri…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection Clare Rogan, Curator In the beginning was the mark. Contemporary artist Julie Mehretu began her career making small marks on paper, exploring how marks …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Five questions with DICK MILLER, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Q: In the fall, you’ll emerge from retirement to teach ECON 127, “Introduction to Financial Accounting,” a type of course that’s rarely been offered at Wesleyan. Why this course, why now and why you? A: Our students are…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

NEW TRUSTEES Join Board

Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson ’94 (Burlingame, Calif.) Clarkson is a director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm. She manages the growth and expansion of the DFJ Global Network and serves on the boa…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Gift Establishes the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Wesleyan is establishing the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, which will support students who want to create programs and organizations serving the public good—anywhere in the world. The Patricelli Center …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Patton Named Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science

The endowed chair was created with the generous support of Alan Dachs ’70, P’98, chair emeritus of the Board of Trustees. “I am delighted that Peter Patton will be the first to hold the Alan M. Dachs Chair in the Natura…