2014 Issue 1 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 28, 2014

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 crunchy foods rather than mushy ones? How do competitive eaters train to eat 36 …

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

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…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

UNLEASHING THE POWER OF STATS

[caption id="attachment_1770" align="alignleft" width="238"] Psychologist Lisa Dierker.[/caption] There are “number” people, and there are “word” people. Left brains, and right brains. “Quants” and English majors. Or so…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014March 7, 2014

WEAR THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE: ALOK APPADURAI ’00

By Todd Stone ’05. Alok Appadurai ’00 recently said that for most everything he has done professionally, he’s been able to take out his business card, look anybody in the eye, and say: “This is the work I do and I’m pr…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014March 7, 2014

A SITE FOR HAPPINESS NATALY KOGAN ’98

In Nataly Kogan’s native Russia, there’s a saying: “To write is like to pee. You should only do it if you can’t hold it anymore.” She gives the same advice to young people who ask her about starting a business. [caption…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

RIDING HIGH WITH RYE: SIVAN COTEL ’05

Down a steep drop on an unimproved road in rural Vermont lies a picturesque 500-acre farm where Sivan Cotel ’05 is toiling with a small group of business partners to build a brand for a beverage most associated with the …

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE KEVIN HUGHES ’14

[caption id="attachment_1796" align="alignleft" width="360"] Kevin Hughes ’14. Photo: Olivia Drake MALS '08.[/caption] …

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Dan M. Brown ’94 Designing Together: The Collaboration and Conflict Management Handbook for Creative Professionals New R…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S UNDERGROUND RADIO STATION

[caption id="attachment_1798" align="alignleft" width="360"] Radio station WES Operations Manager Bob Stuart ’42 in a photograph from the 1940 Olla Podrida. Photo: Special Collections & Archives.[/caption] When soph…

2014 Issue 1February 26, 2014February 26, 2014

YAMASHITA’S LENS ON TIBET

[caption id="attachment_1805" align="alignleft" width="360"] Yaks graze on a hillside above the Yarlong River, veiled in a summer’s snowstorm. It can snow anytime at 12,000 feet, high on the Tibetan Plateau, Kham, Sichua…