Wesleyan University Magazine

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,” Plous says. The goal of the U.S. Professors of the Year Program is to increase a…

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…

2007 Issue 1January 2, 2007March 23, 2015

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2006 Issue 4December 30, 2006September 30, 2014

Doing Her “Science-Writerly Best” on Taboo Topics

“After the publication of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, I became the go-to gal for all things cadaver,” author Mary Roach ’81 confessed to those who flocked to her WESeminar at Homecoming/Family Weekend. “…

2006 Issue 4December 30, 2006September 30, 2014

SCHOLAR ATHLETE

Ellen Davis ’07 is setting a remarkable pace through Wesleyan. This 2005 All-American from Marshall, N.C., made her fourth trip to the NCAAs in cross-country after winning the 2006 New England Division III title. She fin…