Sarah Hann ’95 and Harlan Weaver ’99: “Animal Studies Fellowship Draws Alumni to Campus”

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012September 18, 2014

Sarah Hann ’95 and Harlan Weaver ’99: “Animal Studies Fellowship Draws Alumni to Campus”

Sarah Hann ’95, a veterinarian with a specialty in acupuncture who is concerned with current agricultural practices, and Harlan Weaver ’99, a newly minted Ph.D. in the history of consciousness and the companion of two “pit bulls,” were two fellows in the Human-Animal Studies Fellowship Program this …

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Pursuing the Perfect Pig

Lucky visitors to Black Oak Holler Farm in West Virginia, Nic Heckett’s culinary laboratory, will arrive when the pig has been on the smoker for about eight hours. The hickory wood, harvested from surrounding hills, has …

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Brenner ’92, MD: A Magnetic Treatment for Depression

When Grant Brenner’92, M.D., looks at the future of psychiatry, he’s more likely to see magnets than pills, equally likely to see brain imaging as transformative talk therapy. An interpersonal-relational psychoanalyst, h…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Martin ’02 Cooks Up “Stovetop Travel”

The idea came to her in the middle of the night. “I woke up my husband and told him, ‘I know what I should do: I should cook a meal from every country in the world, one per week,’” says Sasha Foppiano Martin ’02. So b…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Center for Prison Education

BY JIM SMITH Russell Perkins ’09 was a high school student in Evanston, Illinois when the Anthony Porter case changed Illinois law. It changed Perkins’ life, as well. Convicted, in the 1980s, of murdering two Chicago t…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Permaculture Takes Root in the WestCo Courtyard

TO WILD WES, ‘LANDSCAPE’ MEANS ‘NATURAL’ BY YAEL CHANOFF ’11 From the top of Foss Hill, the view of Wesleyan is a picture of New England college charm. But in the green expanses of lawn, where most see tradition and cla…

2011 Issue 2June 21, 2011September 23, 2014

Not About the Pearls

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JULES OPTON-HIMMEL ‘02 and SEAN PATCH ‘02 RARELY SPOKE OF OYSTERS. THEN THEY STARTED GROWING THEM. by Eric Gershon '98 It’s an overcast June morning on Ninigret Pond, a coastal lagoon in Charlest…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Darkly Funny World of Bruce Kaplan ’86

CARTOONS AS A DIARY OF ANGST By Lauren Weber ’94 You won’t find many unicorns or sunflowers in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s cartoons. If you did, the unicorn might be saying wistfully that he wished more little girls loved hi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Real Value of Land: Ownership, Not Auction

ATTORNEY JOHN POLLOCK ’94 UPDATES HEIRS’ RIGHTS BY JIM H. SMITH, MALS ’02 Ervin and James Jones and their seven siblings inherited 38 acres of land in the hill country of eastern Alabama. The two brothers—elderly, poor …

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011September 29, 2014

Making it Easy to be Green: Susan Hunt Stevens ’92 wants to help you live green in your home

“You can measure your carbon footprint, but that’s like stepping on a scale and asking, ‘What do my bones weigh?’” says Susan Hunt Stevens ’92, founder and CEO of Practically Green. “The footprint is only one part of the…