Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015SCHOLAR ATHLETE: HANNAH PLAPPERT ’16 [caption id="attachment_6455" align="aligncenter" width="683"] Hannah Plappert ’16. Photo: John Van Vlack.[/caption] Ask Hannah Plappert ’16, a tri-captain of this year’s field hockey team, to name…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015December 8, 2015JUST PUBLISHED Becky Albertalli ’05 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda HarperCollins, 2015 Clinical psychologist Albertalli has wri…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015GINA ATHENA ULYSSE: BRINGING AN ANTHROPOLOGIST’S INSIGHTS INTO PUBLIC DISCOURSE [caption id="attachment_6653" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Professor of Anthropology Gina Athena Ulysse received the…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015GILMORE A SCIENCE TEAM MEMBER OF TWO SPACE MISSION PROPOSALS SELECTED BY NASA [caption id="attachment_6471" align="aligncenter" width="671"] Martha Gilmore, George I. Seney Professor of Geology, is …
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015WESLEYAN ON BROADWAY FOR HAMILTON [caption id="attachment_6391" align="aligncenter" width="1350"] On Oct. 2, Lin-Manuel Miranda '02 and Thomas Kail '99 ho…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015December 8, 2015FIND ME UNAFRAID: LOVE, LOSS AND HOPE IN AN AFRICAN SLUM BY KENNEDY ODEDE ’12 AND JESSICA POSNER ’09 Kennedy Odede ’12, who grew up in a Kenyan slum, began a youth empowerment group, Shining Hope for Communities. On a sem…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015FROM THE VAULT: HIGHLIGHT FROM THE DAVISON ART CENTER [caption id="attachment_6463" align="aligncenter" width="752"] Printmaker Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) completed his sixth…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015RE-ENACTMENT AT YALE [caption id="attachment_6453" align="aligncenter" width="2700"] This year, Wesleyan and Yale celebrated the 150th annive…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015MIDDLETOWN DAY [caption id="attachment_6411" align="aligncenter" width="2246"] Middletown Day, an annual event, offers an array of acti…
Category 2015 Issue 3Posted on December 7, 2015BETWEEN THE LINES: LIFE AFTER NUCLEAR WAR: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY In her masterful nonfiction work, Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Viking, 2015) Susan Southard ’78 takes readers from …