Wesleyan University Magazine

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

POETS’ CORNER: DAVID LEE GARRISON ’80 AND KEVIN PRUFER ’92

Reunion Photo by David Lee Garrison ’80 We remember classes, football games, proms, and graduation, but we need yearbook pictures on our nametags to recognize each other. We are books …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

“WHO ARE YOU?” BY ELIZABETH LIANG ’92

“What Are You?” In her film, ALIEN CITIZEN: An Earth Odyssey, actor and writer Elizabeth Liang ’92 re-creates her one-wo…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

READY FOR THE NEXT PANDEMIC? Q&A WITH BEN OPPENHEIM ’02

Ben Oppenheim ’02, a senior scientist with Metabiota, a start-up focusing on epidemiological modeling and epidemic …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

TOWARD A GENTLER DEATH: A Q&A WITH KATY BUTLER ’71

In Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, award-winning …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

ROSENSTEIN ’80 MD HELPS WIDOWED FATHERS MOVE FORWARD WITH THEIR CHILDREN

The stories of these seven widowed fathers, who joined the support group founded by Donald L. Rosenstein ’80 MD and Just…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

THE BACK STORY—APOCALYPSE NOW: HOW VIRAL FEAR DISTORTS OUR WORLDVIEW BY DAHLIA SCHWEITZER ’98

In 1995, I saw a movie called Safe at an art house theater in downtown Washington, D.C. Written and directed by Todd H…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

THE POLICY ENTREPRENEUR, BY GABRIEL POPKIN ’03

One federal program provides health coverage to a fifth of all Americans and more than a third of all child…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

ALL THOSE MINDS LEFT BEHIND, BY JOSEPH J. FINS ’82, MD

From the headlines, it would be easy to think that the totality of health care policy is the fate of Obamacare, the th…

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

HEALTHCARE AND RACISM: A TOXIC MIX

Recasting Metabolic Syndrome Associate Professor of Science in Society Anthony Hatch, who has been living with type …

2018 Issue 1May 10, 2018December 12, 2018

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: WHEN FAT SHAMING PRECLUDES MEDICAL CARE

Laura Fraser’s elder sister Jan—here in a family photo with her dog—died of an aggressive cancer that went undiagnosed f…