In the News: Spring 2022
With our growing community of changemakers, scholars, and innovators, Wesleyan and our alumni are often in the news. Here is just a sampling of highlights from the past year:
JAYLEN BERRY ’18 discu…
Short Features
GAME ON: 2021-22 Top Scholar-Athletes
The winners of the 2021-22 Ahrens and Hoagland Awards, honoring the top senior male and female student-athlete at Wesleyan, are Sam Peek ’22 of the men’s basketball team and Julia Meehan ’22 of women’s soccer.
Sa…
Historical Row: Clara Van Vleck, Champion for Coeducation
We are approaching the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Wesleyan— but did you know that Wesleyan first attempted a coe…
Sparking Antiracist Change: Wesleyan Selects 10 Fellows for Inaugural Embodying Antiracism Think Tank
Top row: Karl Boulware, Maria-Christina Oliveras (photo by Lia Chang), Iddi Saaka, Tracy Heather Strain (photo by Joel B…
One Step at a Time: Amby Burfoot’s Life Running
For most runners, winning the Boston Marathon represents the pinnacle of achievement, the crowning glory after months, e…
GAME ON: A Season for the Record Books
In the first season of fall competition since 2019, women’s soccer celebrated their first-ever appearance in the NCAA To…
In the News: 2021
With our growing community of changemakers, scholars, and innovators, Wesleyan and our alumni are often in the news. Her…
A Moment of (Wes) Zen
It seems like forever ago and just yesterday. The tree-lined pathways of College Row bear witness to the many seasons an…
Recommended Reading: Books by Hinton ’85, Kimball ’11, and Others
Alexander Laban Hinton ’85
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S. (NYU Press, 2021)
Although the election of Donald Trump in 2016 came as a surprise to many, it wasn’t a shock f…
Toward a More Human-Centered Future of Work
By Steve Cadigan ’86
Most of the discussion around the future of work today tends to be dismal. It centers on the not…