Short Features – Page 17 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Designs on a Rewarding Career: Sharon Belden Castonguay, Director of the Gordon Career Center

Once upon a time, graduating students could reasonably expect to pick a single career path that would see them straight through their working years. Today, finding a career path can more closely resem…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018September 29, 2019

Game On!

Raise the Bar Senior quarterback Mark Piccirillo ’19 (left) led Wesleyan to four straight winning seasons and became the program’s all-time leader in touchdowns, points, passing yards, and total yards. Volleyball (right…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018May 21, 2019

The Troll Under the Bridge

The Fremont Troll is 28 years old, 18 feet tall, and lurks beneath the Aurora Bridge in Seattle. It was Steve Badanes ’6…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 6, 2018

A University Citizen Retires: Barbara-Jan Wilson

“For so many of us, Barbara-Jan represents the heart and soul of Wesleyan,” said Donna Morea ’76, P’06, chair of Wesleya…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018May 20, 2019

IDEAS: The Next Generation of Makers

Professor Francis Starr says the IDEAS minor prepares students for a modern workforce that rewards interdisciplinary thi…

2018 Issue 3December 3, 2018December 7, 2018

Annual Legacy Photo Highlights Generational Wesleyan Connections

On September 29, Legacy families filled four rows of Denison Terrace with smiles at the annual photo-op for Wesleyan alu…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Bully Pulpit: Marketing for a Better World

When a progressive marketing and communications agency that has major Democratic organizations as clients—and ran the di…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

Spotlight: Managing Editor, The New Yorker, Emily Greenhouse ’08

Q: What was your path to the New Yorker? A: My father is a newspaper reporter, and his 30-plus year career at The New Y…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

How I Wrote 1,000 Articles During My Four Years at Wesleyan, by Lily Herman ’16

A journey of 1,000 articles and a career in writing began with pieces that Herman recalls as “atrociously bad.” But pers…

2018 Issue 2September 7, 2018May 21, 2019

The Outstanding Tennis Game of Eudice Chong ’18, by Jeremy Mindich ’87

This spring Eudice Chong ’18 won an unprecedented fourth NCAA Singles Championship. Jeremy Mindich ’87 had a courtside v…