Wesleyan University Magazine

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 business ideas in a “shark tank” event sponsored by Middletown Entrepreneurs Workspace …

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…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 3, 2020

Stanton Announced as Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs

[caption id="attachment_16043" align="alignright" width="200"] Nicole Stanton[/caption] Nicole Stanton has been announced as Wesleyan University’s 12th Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, with her te…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Re-embracing the Past to Create a Bold New Future: A Q&A with Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs Nicole Stanton

In December 2019, President Michael S. Roth ’78 announced the appointment of Dean of the Arts and Humanities Nicole Stan…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020

Inspiration for Hannah’s War: Dr. Lise Meitner

[caption id="attachment_15673" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Photo of Jan Eliasberg ’74, P’19 by Nina Subin[/caption] …

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 1, 2020

Profound Collaboration: The Creative Campus Initiative

A central focus for the Center for the Arts since 2006, the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) pushes the envelope on wher…

2020 Issue 1May 1, 2020May 6, 2020

Krishnan’s Students: “Feeling the Dance; Thanking the Ground; Releasing the Diva”

Mickey Kieu ’19, English major, dance minor, now a dancer in China: In the classroom, Hari Krishnan is a ve…

2020 Issue 1April 29, 2020May 21, 2020

Three Bronze Stars: Lovett ’45 Recalls WWII Medic Service in Italy

[caption id="attachment_16069" align="alignleft" width="983"] Francis Lovett '45[/caption] Francis Lovett ’45, who graduated from Wesleyan in 1948 after serving with the elite 10th Mountain Division in Italy during Wo…