From Glass Ceilings to Glowing Screens
Jane Eisner ’77, P’06,’12 and daughter Miriam Berger ’12 discuss the profession that is their shared passion.
Jane Eisner ’77 is editor-in-chief of The Forward, the national Jewish news organizatio…
Long Form
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 …
THE POLICY ENTREPRENEUR, BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03
One federal program provides health coverage to a fifth of all Americans and more than a third of all child…
ALL THOSE MINDS LEFT BEHIND, BY JOSEPH J. FINS ’82, MD
From the headlines, it would be easy to think that the totality of health care policy is the fate of Obamacare, the th…
HEALTHCARE AND RACISM: A TOXIC MIX
Recasting Metabolic Syndrome
Associate Professor of Science in Society Anthony Hatch, who has been living with type …
MEDICINE AS A MINDFUL PRACTICE: RONALD EPSTEIN ’76 MD, BY DAVID GLENN
One day in 1978, Ronald M. Epstein ’76 lay writhing in pain on a gurney in an empty hallway of an Amsterdam hospital. …
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WESLEYAN HISTORY (NOT REALLY…)
To walk Wesleyan’s campus is to be surrounded by history that whispers from buildings. Presidents left their mark (or di…
ORAL HISTORIES, BY CHRISTINE FOSTER
In the 1960s, Wesleyan began to grow from a small college into a somewhat bigger, more diverse university. Scores of you…
NO PASSING ZONE: AMERICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE
Casey Dinges ’79 and his colleagues at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) developed a report card that …
CONFLICT OVER A MODEL OF ISLAMIC PLURALISM
BY PETER GOTTSCHALK
Professor of Religion Peter Gottschalk’s research and teaching concentrate on the dynamics of cultural interpretation and conflict in the context of Islamic, Hindu, Christian, and scientific tr…