Helping Working Elephants Return to the Wild

Online ExclusivesAugust 9, 2019

Helping Working Elephants Return to the Wild

Rebecca Winkler ’16 initially wrote about her experience with Mahouts Elephant Foundation, a UK nonprofit and Thai foundation focused on returning captive working elephants to the forest and protectin…

2019 Issue 2August 9, 2019August 12, 2019

A Graphic Novel that Captivates

“The best graphic novels suggest rather than decree. They allow readers to search for truth in what is shown and said, b…

2019 Issue 1July 3, 2019July 3, 2019

How (Not) to Design a Utopia

Though we’ve seen utopias in countless works of fiction, humanity hasn’t yet found a reliable blueprint for building one…

2019 Issue 1July 2, 2019August 9, 2019

Alarming Bias in Predictive Policing

Rashida Richardson ’08, director of policy research at the AI Now Institute at New York University, examines the underly…

2019 Issue 1July 1, 2019July 3, 2019

7 Transformative Keys to Increasing Empathy

Using neuroscience-based research and an acronym, Helen Riess '78, MD, teaches E.M.P.A.T.H.Y.® as a way to improve …

2019 Issue 1June 28, 2019July 9, 2019

Microsoft Data Scientist Jennifer Chayes ’78 Elected to National Academy of Sciences

The head of Microsoft Research New England, NYC, Montreal, Jennifer Chayes brings FATE—fairness, accountability, transpa…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

On the Federal Reserve Board: The Interesting Days of Lael Brainard ’83

As one of five current members of the Federal Reserve Board—which oversees the country’s central banking system—Lael Bra…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

Landman ’78: How to Summit Everest

Last spring, David Landman ’78, P’13 planted a Wesleyan pennant atop Mount Everest. This was his sixth mountain in the S…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Behind the Research: A Q&A with Assistant Professor of Psychology Mike Robinson

Assistant Professor of Psychology Mike Robinson's classes and research focus on the brain mechanisms underlying motivati…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 21, 2019

How Do You Define Data? (video)

Wesleyan professors use data in unique and compelling ways throughout their teaching and research. So, we asked them to …