Wesleyan University Magazine

[caption id="attachment_13157" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] The project 100/100—or 100 paintings of people who are a century old, or nearly so—was on exhibit at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery in New York City last year…

An unprecedented collaboration between a QAC class and a local nonprofit analyzes real-time recidivism data to inform public policy, and offers students exposure to the workings of halfway housing, its staff and formerly…

Many liberal arts colleges have come under extraordinary duress in recent years, and many universities (when not just focused on specialized research) seem to have abandoned broad, contextual learning in favor of vocatio…

Despite growing up in Connecticut, most of what I knew about Wesleyan as an adolescent was that a very bright friend of mine—Nick Encalada-Malinowski ’04—chose it from many other impressive collegiate options. Aside fro…

Dear Editor: When WWII brought the Enlisted Reserve Corps (ERC) to Wesleyan, many of us joined at our administrators’ urging us to stay in college. In a short time, a program by the Navy took precedence and we ERC were …

Wesleyan professors use data in unique and compelling ways throughout their teaching and research. So, we asked them to define what data means to them in five words or less. Their answers range from the surprising to the…

[caption id="attachment_13161" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] From 1963: Attending a College of Quantitative Studies tutorial group (L-R), Director of Projects Robert Singleton;  Thornton Page, Hon.’ 59; and Robe…