Short Features – Page 24 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Finn, Rubenstein, Roberts Honored with Binswanger Teaching Prizes

OLIVIA DRAKE MALS ’08 During Wesleyan’s 185th Commencement on May 28, Wesleyan presented three outstanding faculty members with the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, photographed here with President Roth ’78 (right). These prizes, made possible by gifts from the family of the late …

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Alumni Association Bestows Honors at Annual Meeting

At the Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association on May 27, seven alumni received Distinguished Alumni Awards, and one Outstanding Service Award was presented, along with the James L. McConaughy Jr. Memor…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

WELL READ

The Leavers: A Novel LISA KO ’98 ALGONQUIN BOOKS, 2017 The Leavers tells the story of 11-year-old Deming Guo, whose mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, fails to return home one day from her job at a na…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

RUSSIA TROUBLES CONFOUND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

BY ROBERT HUNTER ’62 Robert Hunter ’62 is a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO who is recognized as a principal architect…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

MARSHALL PLAN AT 70: DO THE TIES STILL BIND?

Karen Donfried ’84, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, previously served as special assistant to President Obama and senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council at t…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THERE’S NO APP FOR A GOOD SWING DANCE

In Alive and Kicking, the Lindy Hop documentary from which this still is taken, writer/director Susan Glatzer ’87 created an experiential high-energy film—and included Magen Jennings ’04 and film studies alumni Zoe B…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THE BACKSTORY by Gina Athena Ulysse & Claudine Nash ’92

The stories behind the words: Poems from Gina Athena Ulysse ("I am a storm," from Because When God Is Too Busy) and Claudine Nash '92 ("The Problem with Loving Ghosts," from Parts per Trillion). GI…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EDGAR BECKHAM: “TURN DIVERSITY INTO AN EDUCATIONAL ASSET”

The College of Letters annual report for 1968–69 notes that Edgar Beckham taught COL 370: The Literature of Black Experience: “It was the first course in black studies offered by a black instructor.“ …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

SHAWN DOVE ’84: THE MINISTRY OF REVERSING THE TREND

BY ANDREW FAUGHT SHAWN DOVE ’84: THE MINISTRY OF REVERSING THE TREND Twenty-one years ago, the Urban Institute think tank issued a report that highlighted 51 “promising” or “effective” programs that worked to i…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

HYUNGSOO KIM ’02, MA’03 IS MAKING TIME ACCESSIBLE—AND FASHIONABLE

BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03 HYUNGSOO KIM ’02, MA’03 IS MAKING TIME ACCESSIBLE...AND FASHIONABLE The first time Hyungsoo Kim made a prototype watch for visually impaired people, it flopped. His first mistake was displ…