Wesleyan University Magazine

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 6, 2020

Eury German ’16: Dance as a Conduit to Self

Eury German ’16 had never taken a dance course until he stepped on Wesleyan’s campus. “I grew up in like a Latinx, male-dominated culture. Aside from social dancing, the arts—as a way to understand t…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020

A Meditation on Loss, Love, and Survival

[caption id="attachment_15757" align="alignleft" width="212"] Run Me to Earth, a novel by Paul Yoon ’02, brings Laos’s difficult history to light.[/caption] While conducting research for his 2017 story collection, The…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Scenes from Shangri-La, by Michael Yamashita ’71

Michael Yamashita ’71 (©Michael Yamashita) For more than 35 years, photographer Michael Yamashita ’71 has worked for Na…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Tuned IN

Question: Is WESU-FM, 88.1, the oldest college radio station? Answer: Maybe. Station Manager Benjamin Michael, who ha…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

WESU DJs Recall Their ‘Radio Days’

Doug Berman ’84, two-time Peabody Award-winning NPR producer and creator of Car Talk and Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

StARTup Incubator: Students Learn to Launch Original Business Ideas through CSPL 239

Middletown may not have an aquarium, but it does have a “Shark Tank” of sorts. In a similar spirit to the eponymous hit …

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Katie Vasquez ’20: Psychology Research Can Guide Us in Normalizing Generosity

Every year, hundreds of Wesleyan seniors produce thesis projects and performances on a wide range of topics. For her sen…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

StARTup Shark Tank: Students Pitch Next-Gen Socially Conscious Ventures

As part of the CSPL 239 Startup Incubator course offered in Fall 2019, students practiced pitching their startup busines…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020

Bright Ideas

Creativity often comes from a lot of hard work with a dash of kismet mixed in. Here, members of Wesleyan's creative comm…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020July 13, 2022

Student Artists’ Books: Advocacy Through Creativity

Each year, our Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) staff work with Wesleyan faculty to teach between 80 and 12…