Wesleyan University Magazine

2007 Issue 2June 30, 2007September 30, 2014

Inventor of Medical Thrillers Discusses Craft

So you want to write a best-seller thriller and you want some tips. You might take a look at Coma. If you are not among the 100 million or so readers who have purchased books by Dr. Robin Cook ’62, then, briefly, Coma was a runaway best seller turned movie that he wrote early in his career. It est…

2007 Issue 2June 29, 2007September 30, 2014

LETTER HOME: Results in 100 Days

Results in 100 Days As I start to write this letter, I’m sitting in a small room in the town of Rashad in Sudan, which lies west of the Nuba Mountains and borders the region of Darfur. I’m wearing a headscarf over my …

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 16, 2014

KEYS TO THE HISTORY OF GALAXIES

Katherine Rhode was an art student at Sonoma State University north of San Francisco when she took an introductory astronomy course to fulfill a general education requirement. As her artistic vision made the leap to appr…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 16, 2014

MANAGING THE RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, a co–lead author of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC) views global warming with an economist’s eye. DAVID PESCI: For any s…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!

From the Civil War to Vietnam and beyond, Wesleyan students and alumni have been called upon—by conscience, patriotic fervor, conscription, or some combination thereof —to enlist and fight. The causes and the military t…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 16, 2014

RETIRING FACULTY/HONORARY DEGREES

W. Wistar Comfort (1967–2006) Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics Martha Crenshaw (1974–2007) Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought C. Stewart Gillm…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 16, 2014

SERVICE AND CIVILITY

I would urge each of you graduates of the class of 2007 to find ways to also serve. I don’t mean necessarily joining the Marines, to fight in Iraq or in the next war or two. I mean, no matter what you decide to do with y…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007May 16, 2014

ENGAGED WITH THE WORLD

As he did during all four of Martin Luther King’s visits to Wesleyan, Professor John Maguire opened his house at 44 Home Avenue for people to meet the Reverend. Between phone calls, the Reverend Dr. King sat and talked w…

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007March 6, 2014

Designed to Grow

BY BRIAN SCHWARTZ | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT ADAM MAYER IN A SLEEPY BUT RESURGENT NEIGHBORHOOD IN BROOKLYN, in a granitic old building at the end of a residential street, the employees of a local clothing company are busy …

2007 Issue 2June 20, 2007November 12, 2014

Scaling the Heights

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT BIG-NAME theater producers offer $2.5 million to stage a young artist’s first major show. But that’s exactly what happened to Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 and the creative team of In the Heights, a vibr…