2013 Issue 2

  [caption id="attachment_696" align="alignleft" width="300"] Josh Lerner ’00 directs the Participatory Budgeting Project—or PB. This New York-based nonprofit assists citizens in taking on a key role in community b…

  [caption id="attachment_694" align="alignleft" width="300"] Amanda (Mandy) Snyder ’00. Photo: Sarah Robinson[/caption] By Nancy Fontaine It’s the end of a busy day. You rush into the kitchen with a bag of groce…

  [caption id="attachment_688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Stacey Matthias ’94 likens her research on child development — “understanding how a child’s mind works”— to a “mind-blowing” course at Wesleyan taught b…

  [caption id="attachment_930" align="alignleft" width="500"] Melissa Stern ’80.Photo: Alison Rosa.[/caption] It is worth taking the time to get beneath the surface of Melissa Stern’s art. On first glance at her d…

  [caption id="attachment_864" align="alignleft" width="200"] Mark Doty: Photo: Starr Black[/caption]  For young writers, the prospect of getting their work in front of a master (whether a Pulitzer Prize-winning a…

   [caption id="attachment_687" align="alignleft" width="300"] Marguerite Gérard (French, 1761-1837) after Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806). To the Genius of Franklin (Au Génie de Franklin), 1778. Etching. Se…