UpFront – Page 17 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

New Paintings by David Schorr at Davison Art Center in Early 2012

The most recent work by Professor of Art David Schorr will be shown in February and March 2012 in the exhibition APOTHECARY (storehouse) at Davison Art Center. The show features more than 75 paintings of antique apothecary bottles that have been meticulously executed by Schorr in gouache and silverp…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Wesleyan Receives $2 Million challenge for Humanities Program

Wesleyan has received a $2-million challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help endow the Center for the Humanities. The grant requires Wesleyan to raise an additional $4 million in endowment funds over t…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

(Your) Brain on Culture

By David Coombs, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities. Will brain scans revolutionize the liberal arts? Is neurocognitive science going to become, as The New York Timesput it recently, “the n…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

LETTER HOME: Reflections on Life After Wesleyan by Emily Aruna Teitsworth ’03

My horse saw them out of the corner of his eye and shied at the sheets of paper fluttering in the wind. I jumped to the ground and dislodged a stack of yellowing birth certificates from the spines of a cholla cactus: thr…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

JUST PUBLISHED | 2011 ISSUE 2 Amy Baltzell ’87 Living in the Sweet Spot: Preparing for Performance in Sport and Life • FITNESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2011 This inspiring guide to preparing for life’s major perfo…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: Julian Sonnenfeld ’11

Scholar Athlete JULIAN SONNENFELD ’11 Julian Sonnenfeld ’11 ended his four years on the Wesleyan baseball team with a .377 batting average, 122 RBI, and a .625 slugging percentage, supported by his 17 career homers. He…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: ELIZABETH C. WRIGHT, FOUNDING MOTHER

Wesleyan graduates have a long tradition of founding educational institutions. Some were established to help right social wrongs. The Colored Normal School in Richmond, Va., the first public high school for African Ameri…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection Clare Rogan, Curator In the beginning was the mark. Contemporary artist Julie Mehretu began her career making small marks on paper, exploring how marks …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Five questions with DICK MILLER, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Q: In the fall, you’ll emerge from retirement to teach ECON 127, “Introduction to Financial Accounting,” a type of course that’s rarely been offered at Wesleyan. Why this course, why now and why you? A: Our students are…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

NEW TRUSTEES Join Board

Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson ’94 (Burlingame, Calif.) Clarkson is a director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm. She manages the growth and expansion of the DFJ Global Network and serves on the boa…