Issues

Since Curator Nina Felshin arrived at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery seven years ago, she’s been keeping a list: alumni whose art might be featured in a Wesleyan exhibition.   She began by asking her faculty c…

Arijit Sen ’07, who is from Calcutta, India, is the first student to receive the Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholars’ Scholarship, a scholarship created by scholarship students.   The story of this new program began l…

William Manchester’s name burst into the national consciousness with his riveting account of the assassination of President Kennedy (Death of a President, 1967). A year later, he and his family built a house on Pine Stre…

Stephen S. Daniel ’82 has made a $1-million gift to the Wesleyan Campaign in honor of his father, D. Ronald Daniel ’52, former chair of Wesleyan’s Board of Trustees.   In recognition of this gift, Wesleyan will na…

Participants in this year's Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns discussed an issue cited by Kofi Annan as posing a fundamental challenge to the principles underlying world security.   An ethical issue that underpins…

Olin Library, dedicated in 1928, has reached the ripe old age of 75. Built by the well-known New York firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and based on original plans by architect Henry Bacon, Olin was constructed during a pe…

BY ALEXANDER CHEE '89 I GRADUATED FROM WESLEYAN IN 1989 as an English major with a B+ average and returned in the fall of 2002 as a visiting writer after the publication of my first novel. Being here again has been a st…

BARRY CHERNOFF CAN BE A HARD GUY TO REACH when classes are not in session. His work as an environmental scientist bent on saving ecosystems from destruction takes him to remote areas of South America where he is more lik…

ON A JUNE EVENING IN 2002, ethnomusicologist Tim Eriksen M.A. '93 got a call that changed his life. He and his wife, fellow ethnomusicologist Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic Ph.D. '98, were living in Minneapolis. She was a pro…