Wesleyan University Magazine

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019September 29, 2019

Game On!

Winning Winter [caption id="attachment_13153" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] Austin Hutcherson ’21[/caption] Austin Hutcherson ’21 (men’s basketball) earned First Team All-NESCAC honors this season and Tim Sestak ’20 (men’s hockey) was named an All-American and NESCAC Player of the Year. …

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 21, 2019

The Big Hopper Reveal (video)

The 32 students in Professor Voth and Assistant Professor Moller's sections of IDEAS 170 spent half the fall semester cr…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

On Solid Common Ground

A cosmic creative alumni collaboration makes a beautiful musical together: Director Tyler Thomas, choreographer Nora Tho…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

President’s Letter: Interdisciplinary Education

IDEAS is now a minor, and I suspect before too long it will take its place among the interdisciplinary majors offered at the university. I can hardly wait to see what faculty and students make of this addition to our edu…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 20, 2019

IDEAS: Putting the Art in Smart Design

Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thriv…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 21, 2019

Thinkers, Doers, Makers: The Inspired Ways Three Wesleyan Faculty Members Stock Young Designers’ Toolkits

The Space Between Associate Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza pushes her students to work across disciplines and towa…

2018 Issue 3December 5, 2018January 2, 2019

Historical Row: The WESt Coast

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the best-known landmarks in American history, at once an engineering marvel and an aest…

2018 Issue 3December 5, 2018December 7, 2018

The Invisible Woman: Avery Trufelman ’13

Avery Trufelman ’13 knows how to get inside your head: she goes through your ears. Trufelman is a producer on the show …

2018 Issue 3December 5, 2018December 12, 2018

Bill Shapiro ’87 and What We Keep

For their new book, Bill Shapiro ’87 and Naomi Wax interviewed hundreds of people about the single object that brings th…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Alumni Bookshelf

Helen Riess ’78 with Liz Neporent The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, …