FRIES CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES COMMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP IN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FRIES CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES COMMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP IN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD

[caption id="attachment_8505" align="alignnone" width="1400"] PHOTO: Rebecca Goldfarb Terry '19 During the dedication of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Trustee Mike Fries ’85 spoke on how Wesleyan had enlarged his worldview.[/caption] Faculty, staff, students, and alumni recently gathered f…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

MEET HAMILTON PRIZE WINNER AUDREY PRATT ’21

When 18-year-old Audrey Pratt of Needham, Mass., received a ticket to see Hamilton for her birthday, she never dared dream that Lin- Manuel Miranda ’02, Thomas Kail ’99, and members of the all-alumni Hamilton P…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THE BACKSTORY: THE ASD BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLUES

BY JUDITH NEWMAN ’81 Judith Newman ’81 is the author of To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines (Harper Collins, August 2017). She lives in Manhattan with her twin sons, Henry a…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

YOUR SECRET’S SAFE WITH ME: DIPLOMATIC THRILLER WRITER MATTHEW PALMER ’88

Matthew Palmer ’88 is director of the Oce of South Central Europe in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Aairs. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished graduat…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FIVE JOIN WESLEYAN BOARD

KAREN DONFRIED ’84 Karen Donfried is president of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a nonprofit focused on strengthening transatlantic relations and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with seven…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN AND WORLD WAR I

[caption id="attachment_9391" align="alignnone" width="1039"] Courtesy of Wesleyan University Special Collections & Archives[/caption] In 1914, The Great War—known later as World War I—broke out in Europe. As Unit…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FIVE QUESTIONS FOR EMY MATESAN

Emy Matesan, assistant professor of government at Wesleyan, focuses on Middle East politics, particularly security and political violence, democratization, and Islamist movements. In Egypt and Indonesia, Matesan conducte…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THE COMMON GROUND ON REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AND SECURITY

BY JOSEPH CASSIDY ’86 Joseph Cassidy ’86 is a Wilson Center fellow and former State Department foreign service officer. Follow him on Twitter @cassidyjosephp. The following is excerpted from an article of his publ…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Two Scoops, Different Flavors

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2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Game On

PHOTO BY STEVE MCLAUGHLIN MEN’S LACROSSE CAPS HISTORIC SEASON In this historic season, the Wesleyan Men’s Lacrosse team won the NESCAC and Little Three Championships, capping it off by reaching the NCAA Sem…