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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 and Gus. Learn more at judithnewman.com. Me: “Honey, it’s going to be great! L…

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…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Reunion & Commencement 2017

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2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Letter Home: Walking With Giants in the Hills of Thailand

What happens when a Wesleyan student discovers a passion for protecting elephants—and begins her career in a small Southeast Asian Village?— ■ REBECCA WINKLER ’16 began working with the Mahouts Elephant Foundation…