UpFront – Page 43 – Wesleyan University Magazine

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Rocking Out to the Beat of Hope

In November the popular online iTunes Music Store offered a benefit album of original songs performed by internationally known artists. The album quickly became a best seller, generating $100,000 in less than a month. All the proceeds are going to relief efforts aimed at war-ravaged refugees. It's a…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Miss U.S. Virgin Islands

“My mother has called me ‘Miss Universe’ since I was 2,” admits Tricia Homer ’04 with a laugh. She is now just one contest away from the possibility of making this title her own, worldwide. In November, Homer was crowned…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Shasha Seminar

Melting glaciers and disappearing polar ice are two tangible signs of a virtually undisputed phenomenon—the earth is warming. Yet scientists cannot give policy makers the certainty they seek about how much warming, when,…

2005 Issue 1January 20, 2005May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: KEEPING SECRETS

Whether your tastes run to bestsellers such as The Da Vinci Code and The Rule of Four or you prefer the New York Times' coverage of the Presidential inauguration, you probably have been reading recently about secret soci…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004April 4, 2014

Q & A: Japan’s Search for a Secure Future

Professor of Government Peter Rutland, back from a year in Japan, discusses that country's outdated security arrangement with the United States and why both sides need to change. Japan and the United States are …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

A Photographer’s View

The trip across Japan last summer visiting ancient shrines actually began in Wyoming in the early 1970s. That’s when a high school student named William Johnston came across a book called Essays in Zen Buddhism. …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Outreach to Public Schools

In 1979 a group of Connecticut citizens concerned about math education got together on the Wesleyan campus. Their worries ranged from declining student performance in math to the small number of women choosing math-relat…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

New Chair Honors Henry Wriston ’11

Henry Wriston ’11 was born in Laramie before Wyoming became a state. His mother had come west in a wagon train and survived a deadly clash with Indians. His father was a circuit preacher who taught himself Greek, Latin, …

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Tibetan Monks At Work

Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Southern India spent Sept. 8?11 on campus creating a mandala, or sand painting, in the lobby of Olin Library. A constant stream of visitors from on campus and off stop…

2004 Issue 4December 20, 2004May 7, 2014

Clues to Health in “Smartweeds”

Sonia Sultan, a slim and dark-haired biologist, kicks off her sandals and begins to water one of the bushy green Polygonum plants growing in Wesleyan's research greenhouse. She intends to compare it to its relatives grow…