Wesleyan University Magazine

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 Prize, along with Al Gore. The Nobel Committee cited the IPCC and Gore for …

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…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

CONDUCTOR LOOKS TO FILM

Angel Gil-Ordóñez wears many hats in the music department at Wesleyan. When he isn’t working as music director of the Wesleyan Orchestra or conducting the Wesleyan Concert Choir, he serves as director of private lessons,…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007May 16, 2014

TALES OF THE CANNON

“You’re grounded!” “C’mon, what did I do?” “Out for six years without even a phone call. How dare you even ask!” Sigh. “Can I at least send some pictures to my friends?” “Just this onc…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL STREET IN AMERICA

That would be our own High Street, of course, and the luminary who made the statement would be Charles Dickens. At least that’s the story according to a 1942 article about the DKE House by Lucy Colton Wells. Mrs. Wells r…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Weightless But Weighty

Joshua Boger ’73, a Wesleyan trustee and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, won a charity auction for an opportunity to fly gravity-defying parabolic flight patterns with a couple of dozen individuals and Stephen Hawking, on…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Help Needed

MUZZY ROSENBLATT ’87 IS NAVIGATING THE STREETS OF LOWER MANHATTEN IN HIS VAN ON A SUMMER MORNING. We are stopped at a red light when we see a man on the sidewalk tracing an erratic path, from one pedestrian to another. R…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

Silenced Genes

Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Scott Holmes works with graduate students Kristen Martins-Taylor (foreground) and Minakshi Poddar on the molecular genetics of gene silencing. For normal developm…

2007 Issue 3September 20, 2007April 28, 2014

A Voice For Immigrants

TOURISTS FLOCK TO NASHVILLE FOR GRAND OLE OPRY SHOWS that have defined the city as the capital of country music since 1925. Downtown, in the Tennessee statehouse, a different spectacle has provoked considerable attention…