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Gift Establishes the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Wesleyan is establishing the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, which will support students who want to create programs and organizations serving the public good—anywhere in the world. The Patricelli Center and its programs are supported by a generous $2 million leadership gift from the…
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Commencement 2011

When you are discouraged, stop and think about Rwanda’s recovery . . . or some other evidence of the value of persistence and knowledge and solidarity and connection; think about the friendships you’ve made here and draw…
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LETTER HOME

Dear All, As I packed up my home in Mali and prepared to catch a flight to Yaounde, Cameroon, I wasn’t nervous about culture shock. I imagined that having spent much of the past four years in Sub-Saharan Africa, includi…
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SCHOLAR ATHLETE

“Squash is a unique sport,” says Meherazade Sumariwalla ’12, captain of Wesleyan Women’s Varsity Squash. “It’s both a team and an individual competition—but we are always a team. We are there for each other and we put th…
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In Tokyo When the Earthquake Hit… Mary Alice Haddad saw firsthand how the Japanese people coped with a devastating earthquake

When the earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, hit, I was emerging from a subway in Tokyo about 220 miles from the epicenter. I was on my way to collect my children from school when it felt like someone grabbed the end of the es…
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