Wesleyan University Magazine

2007 Issue 1January 29, 2007September 29, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: No Time to Change

Ben Byers ’07 loves swimming so much he probably would compete in his clothes. A four-time participant in NCAA championships and an All-American (2005), he placed second this year in 1,000- and 1,650-yard freestyle events at the NESCAC championship. When he is not breaking Wesleyan team records, he …

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 16, 2014

Wesleyan Joins States Stem Cell Initiative

Wesleyan has gained a key role in Connecticut’s effort to foster stem cell research. Among the handful of states that have authorized research on stem cell lines other than the limited number approved by the fed…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: LIONS, AND TIGERS, AND BEARS… OH MY!

From 1871 to 1957, the top two floors of Judd Hall housed Wesleyan’s natural history museum. Named for Orange Judd, Class of 1847, a prominent agricultural editor and publisher, as well as a generous donor, the brownston…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 16, 2014

CONNECTICUT PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR

This designation means he is among only 43 professors working in the United States, the District of Columbia, and Guam to be considered a 2006 U.S. Professor of the Year. “It was quite a surprise, as you can imagine,” P…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 16, 2014

ENGAGED WITH THE WORLD

Most children learn the concept of “one” soon after learning to count. Typically, about six months after that, they comprehend the idea of “two,” and about six months later they understand “three.” “Studies have establi…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 2, 2014

Passion for Ideas

AT 3:45 P.M., MICHAEL ROTH ’78 WAS HURRYING TO FINISH HIS LUNCH, an orange-colored soup in a plastic take-out container. Finding any time at all to eat had been difficult that day because he had flown from Los Angeles ba…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 2, 2014

Peapod Ripens

BANANAS ARE THE NUMBER-ONE SELLING ITEM AT PEAPOD, the Internet’s leading grocery service. You might imagine that consumers would want to choose their own bananas to avoid bruised fruit. That they trust Peapod to avoid…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 2, 2014

Supersized Debate

BY LAURA DEMANSKI AMERICANS ARE GETTING FATTER; that much we know. In the last decade, the U.S. Surgeon General, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the list goes on—have do…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 2, 2014

The Bennet Style

Students present at Doug Bennet’s inauguration remember the event not for the speeches but for the party that followed. Hours after the formalities had ended, a drenching rain turned the Center for the Arts courtyard, si…

2007 Issue 1January 20, 2007May 2, 2014

A Distinguished Dozen

ANNA QUINDLEN: I’ve known Wesleyan for four years since my son arrived here as a member of the class of 2007. In what ways was Wesleyan different in 1995 when you became president? DOUGLAS J. BENNET: It was not as recog…