Issues

I was very sad to hear the obituary news about my mentor, adviser, and friend, Professor Bill Firshein. I worked in Bill’s lab for two years and did my senior thesis with him, and I was one of the first students to gradu…

Flipping through Issue 3, 2015, I came across the Newsmaker profile of Michael Greenberg ’76, PhD, in the Class Notes. The writeup was appropriately congratulatory, but he deserves so, so much more. Among other disorders…

For a retired physician now in my second career as an instructor in biology at the undergraduate level this article was of great practical interest. I often tell my students that a good indicator of how well they underst…

Black Lives Matter. It was interesting to note the differing reactions of Wesleyan students to an Argus article using those words (Wesleyan, 2015, issue 3, page 13). It is not my intention to come down on either side of …

[caption id="attachment_6489" align="alignleft" width="200"] Clifford Chanin ’75, vice president for education and public programs for the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, in the museum’s soaring Foundation Hall. Phot: …

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor.[/caption] I was a young reporter for the Middletown Press when it moved from its hole-in-the-wall location on the north end of Ma…