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

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, transparency, and ethics—to data science. Her own unexpected path to the field has sens…

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 …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

More Moneyball, More Math Problems

In the movie adaptation of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s seminal 2003 account of the sabermetrics revolution in baseball, a…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

Giving Done Right: Effective Data For Philanthropy

Philip Buchanan ’92, the president the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), has some tips on what to look for in an …

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 20, 2019

A Line in the Sand, by John F. Ross ’81

Turning a phrase well is often celebrated in our culture, as is the ability of a painter to capture an expression or a f…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 21, 2019

The Big Hopper Reveal (video)

The 32 students in Professor Voth and Assistant Professor Moller's sections of IDEAS 170 spent half the fall semester cr…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 20, 2019

IDEAS: Putting the Art in Smart Design

Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thriv…