Wesleyan University Magazine

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 one person is different from another, why one person's genes portend cancer while…

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…

2002 Issue 4December 30, 2002March 23, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Our roundup of noteworthy publications by Wesleyan alumni, faculty members, and parents. MICHAEL LOBEL ’90 Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002) In this richly …

2002 Issue 4December 30, 2002March 23, 2015

AUTHOR ESSAY: My Life in Heavy Meddling

Steve Almond ’88 wrote a book about the romantic mishaps of single men. Readers asked: Is the book autobiographical? He responds with thoughts about what is really at stake in the question. This past April, Grove Press …

2002 Issue 4December 30, 2002September 30, 2014

Keep Wesleyan Front and Center

David Bartholomew ’81 writes: When friends outside of Wesleyan ask how I became chair of the Wesleyan Alumni Association, they assume that I carefully considered the decision to run for the office, campaigned eagerly, a…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: A CHAPEL FOR ALL SEASONS

When Wesleyan men came home from the Civil War, a new era of campus expansion began. College Row, then known as Brownstone Row, came into its own with the construction of three of its five prominent buildings. Joseph Cum…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

WWII Documentary, The Costs of War

“The line between the poet and the warrior is very thin,” says Richard Hanley MALS ’93, as he describes the third, and last, episode of his television documentary, Connecticut and World War II. This final segment, titled…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

40th Anniversary, Celebrate World Music

On Feb. 21-23, Wesleyan will celebrate 40 years of the World Music Program with marathon concerts, panels of distinguished musicians and scholars, and special programs. Forty years ago, in 1961, Wesleyan’s small…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

Straight Talk About Vodou

It’s difficult to decide which is more intriguing: that Assistant Professor of Religion Elizabeth McAlister keeps a couple of zombies in her office, or the idea that she might not have the zombies (or the office at Wesle…

2002 Issue 4September 4, 2002May 5, 2014

National Debate, Wish Upon A Stem Cell

While the U.S. Congress continues to debate policy regarding human embryonic stem cell research, federally funded researchers nationwide, including some at Wesleyan, remain tantalized by possible scientific advances. At …