Wesleyan University Magazine

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Men’s Soccer Takes NESCAC Title

NESCAC Coach of the Year Geoffrey Wheeler reports: Wesleyan captured its first ever New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship in any sport when the men’s soccer team defeated Amherst and Williams in the same weekend. As the No. 7 seed in the tournament, we upset No…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 16, 2014

Largest Binge-eating Study Will Include Men

An internationally-recognized expert on eating disorders, Striegel-Moore says the four-year study will take place in Portland, Oregon, and will include male and female subjects between 18 and 50 years of age. The study i…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN’S ANNIVERSARIES

Wesleyan turns 175 in 2006. The official celebration will begin at Reunion and Commencement 2006. Institutional birthdays often occur in 25-year intervals. A quick look at the history of Wesleyan's anniversary c…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Museum on College Row

THE BONANG, KOTO, AXATSE, AND TABLA--musical instruments that may be unknown to many people--are crammed along with hundreds of other equally intriguing items from the World Music collection in a locked storeroom small…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Main Street’s New Buzz

ON A BRIGHT EARLY-AUTUMN SATURDAY AFTERNOON, pedestrians fill the central block of Main Street, which has been closed to vehicles for "Middletown Dances." A dance team from Middletown High School teaches "Hand Jive" on a…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006May 2, 2014

Valley of Extremes

IT ALL CAME DOWN TO THE WIND ON VENTIFACT RIDGE. The wind—thousands of years' worth of sand-filled storms and sustained breezes blowing in excess of 50 miles per hour—had carved dramatic features into the solid rocks an…

2006 Issue 1January 20, 2006April 25, 2014

Dance of the Genes

"One of the great lessons I've learned from Liz [Lerman] in the three years we've worked together is the importance of 'rattling around in somone else's universe,'" writes Center for the Arts director Pamela Tatge '84 in…

2005 Issue 4December 30, 2005September 30, 2014

Alumni Are Key to Wesleyan Excellence

Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle speaks to the impossibility of measuring certain pairs of observable phenomena with precision. It is doubtful Prof. Heisenberg had American higher education in mind; I bet he was…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Celestial Mystery Solved

The winking star created a sensation when Professor of Astronomy William Herbst and Catrina Hamilton-Drager Ph.D. ’04 introduced it at an astronomy conference three years ago. The two reported that the s…

2005 Issue 4December 20, 2005May 16, 2014

Aided By Nature’s Pharmacy

When the tiger moth caterpillar becomes infected with potentially lethal parasites, it heads for a natural pharmacy. Remarkably, the caterpillar develops a stronger taste for chemicals specifically found in plan…