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2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

The question took me by surprise. I had just finished lecturing to about 75 undergraduates at Peking University on the virtues of American-style pragmatic liberal education. My book Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters had recently been translated into Chinese, and I was on a speakin…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: MY FAREWELL COLUMN

Lately I’ve been exploring the devilish complexities of Medicare as I approach my 65th birthday and a time of change in …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

LONG ROAD TO POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATION

[caption id="attachment_10325" align="aligncenter" width="2200"] Collegial Venture: The late Professor of History Jeffrey Butler (left) and his colleague, Professor Emeritus of History Richard Elphick (right), shared dee…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

WES MEDIA PROJECT

Research by Associate Professor of Government Erika Franklin Fowler and the Wesleyan Media Project (WMP) on campaign advertising, health care policy, and political communication is resonating far beyond Wesleyan’s campus…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

WESLEYAN INTRODUCES SPIN BIKESHARE PROGRAM

Bikes on Demand: Emma Porrazzo ’19 goes for a spin on one of the orange bicycles popping up all over campus as part of…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

HISTORICAL ROW: “A MORE SIMPLE FARE”: THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Wesleyan’s interest in good health goes back to at least 1839. That year, a group of students formed the Physiological S…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

POETS’ CORNER: DAVID LEE GARRISON ’80 AND KEVIN PRUFER ’92

Reunion Photo by David Lee Garrison ’80 We remember classes, football games, proms, and graduation, but we need…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

“WHO ARE YOU?” BY ELIZABETH LIANG ’92

“What Are You?” In her film, ALIEN CITIZEN: An Earth Odyssey, actor and writer Elizabeth Liang ’92 re-creates her one-wo…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC? Q&A WITH BEN OPPENHEIM ’02

Ben Oppenheim ’02, a senior scientist with Metabiota, a start-up focusing on epidemiological modeling and epidemic …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

TOWARD A GENTLER DEATH: A Q&A WITH KATY BUTLER ’71

In Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, award-winning …