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During the 185th Commencement ceremony on May 28, John ’62 and Gina Driscoll were honored with the Raymond E. Baldwin Medal, the highest award of the Alumni Association. John and Gina have each provided exemplary service…

Wesleyan’s College of the Environment (COE) has received two major gifts that together will provide $6.5 million in endowment to support its programs. Essel Bailey ’66 and his wife, Menakka, have increased their suppo…

[caption id="attachment_8505" align="alignnone" width="1400"] PHOTO: Rebecca Goldfarb Terry '19 During the dedication of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Trustee Mike Fries ’85 spoke on how Wesleyan had enlarged his …

When 18-year-old Audrey Pratt of Needham, Mass., received a ticket to see Hamilton for her birthday, she never dared dream that Lin- Manuel Miranda ’02, Thomas Kail ’99, and members of the all-alumni Hamilton P…

BY JUDITH NEWMAN ’81 Judith Newman ’81 is the author of To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines (Harper Collins, August 2017). She lives in Manhattan with her twin sons, Henry a…

We hear it all the time: The cultural and economic context into which our graduates enter is a global one. For many years, Wesleyan has energetically recruited students from across the United States because we …

In 1977, Boston ophthalmologist Dr. Robin Cook ’62 published a book that would spawn a new literary genre, change the public’s perception of medicine (and doctors), and a launch a literary career. That book was Coma—a me…

I often hear students refer to the “Wesleyan bubble,” a term meant to suggest that life on campus is somehow apart from the world. In some respects, it is—by design. The opportunity to take a course with no app…

Matthew Palmer ’88 is director of the Oce of South Central Europe in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian A
airs. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished graduat…