Wesleyan University Magazine

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Dance Celebrates its 36th

“Dancing Legacies” celebrated 35 years of dance at Wesleyan with a gathering of many of Wesleyan’s most noted dance graduates during Homecoming/Family weekend this fall. The event featured a host of performances, exhibitions, lectures and workshops. Celebrants recalled the beginnings of dan…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Publishers and Editors

Wesleyan graduates are prolific authors, as the books section of this magazine attests, but they are also very active as publishers and editors. Johnny Temple ’89, for example, runs an award-winning, independent…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Celebrated Philosopher Norman O. Brown Dies

Norman O. Brown, the former Jane A. Seney Professor of Greek, died Oct. 2, 2002, in Santa Cruz, Calif. He was 89. His obituary in the New York Times described him as an “erudite and spectacularly playful philoso…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Leading Musician T. Viswanathan Dies

Tanjore Viswanathan, South Indian flutist and adjunct professor of music, died Sept. 10 at Hartford Hospital after suffering a heart attack. He was 75. Professor T. Viswanathan, or Viswa, as he was known to all,…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Glass Pavilion

College Row has looked pretty much the same for generations. A quick glance at the area between Memorial Chapel and ’92 Theater, however, reveals that change is coming, most visibly through the construction of an all-wea…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Global Conflict

Hanna Ingber ’03, a major in the College of Social Studies, reports on Wesleyan’s first Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns, which focused on “Cultural Roots of Global Conflict.” Attending the Shasha Seminar on gl…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Smoke Signals

ALDOUS HUXLEY AND GEORGE BURNS HAD AT LEAST ONE THING IN COMMON: Both believed a good cigar is essential to happiness. Huxley said a cigar is "much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Who Owns The Past?

KARIN HALVORSEN '97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The archaeologists around t…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Biology’s New Data Mavens

PEOPLE ARE DATA. That's the mantra for a new breed of biologists who use computers to sort through vast databases comprising billions of bits of information about genes. They are searching for patterns that reveal why o…

2003 Issue 1January 4, 2003May 5, 2014

Out Of This World

MARTHA GILMORE IS GOING TO MARS. Again. In fact, this time she's not only responsible for helping pick a landing site, she'll be doing some of the driving on the red planet, too. Gilmore, an assistant professor of earth…