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Anika Fischer ’10 is an art history and Italian studies double major who has served up enough victories to be the number–one player on the women’s team and win all–NESCAC honors. The journey to the top has not been easy—…

Imagine a Wesleyan without academic departments based on traditionally recognized disciplines. Students (perhaps even faculty) live, eat, study, and socialize together in groups organized around intellectual interests. F…

Jacon Mayer ’10 transferred to Wesleyan partly because he’d read about its sailing club. When he arrived, however, he discovered that the club consisted mostly of a few students heading down to the river to get off campu…

The Allbritton Center, made possible by the generous support of Robert ’92 and Elena ’93 Allbritton, is home to two new programs that intersect prominently with the public sphere:   The Allbritton Center for the S…

After being covered in a layer of black grime, the 30,000 square–foot newly renovated Allbritton Center is revealing its red brick exterior and stained glass windows. Its heavy, wood doors have been refabricated and are …

Alexander Levi ’90 has fond memories of rowing on the Connecticut River with the Wesleyan crew, and now, as an architect, he has returned to a river with an ambitious outreach project. Since January, Levi and his wife, a…

For the past several years Jewish students on campus have put up a modest Sukkah to celebrate the festival of Sukkot, but this year the project took on new life with award–winning results.   Rabbi David Leipziger …

In a small and decidedly unpretentious dining area at Somerville High School outside Boston, about 40 teachers raise a din of conversation so loud that it’s hard to be heard. Teachers have a lot to say to each other, but…