Wesleyan University Magazine

2007 Issue 4December 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Brighter Stage For Science

ASK ANY SCIENTIST ON CAMPUS HOW THE SCIENCES AT WESLEYAN STACK UP AGAINST OTHER LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTIONS, and you will hear an exclamation that our peers aren’t even in the same league. A lot of data exists to support that contention, or at least a more restrained articulation of it. Wesleyan has …

2007 Issue 4December 15, 2007March 23, 2015

BACKSTORY: Just Go Forward

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2007 Issue 4December 2, 2007March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

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2007 Issue 3October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

BACKSTORY: Fight for Freedom

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2007 Issue 3October 2, 2007March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

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2007 Issue 3September 30, 2007September 30, 2014

Recalling “The Day the Clowns Cried”

July 6, 1944, the day of the Hartford circus fire, has been dubbed “The Day the Clowns Cried.” The blaze, which claimed the lives of 169 people, mostly women and children, and its aftermath was the subject of We Can’t Re…

2007 Issue 3September 29, 2007September 29, 2014

A Trip to Africa with Nicholas Kristof

The rebel soldiers and their big guns become silent when Nakunda speaks. Even the cows in the nearby fields stop mooing. He is motioning to me, with insistence: “Have another piece of chicken.” Moments earlier, Nakunda a…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 16, 2014

A SHARE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, is a senior member and coordinating lead author on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Priz…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

HOGENDORN ON CELLPHONE CULTURE

Assistant Professor of Economics Chris Hogendorn talks about cell phone culture the old-fashioned way, face-to-face in an interview. Q. Generally, what effect do cell phones have in our life? &n…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

ENGAGED WITH THE WORLD

Chinese conservatories of music have long clung to classical Western composers such as Beethoven and Mozart as defining the gold standard for study and performance. Ironically, even the Cultural Revolution did not dislod…