Wesleyan University Magazine

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

GIFTS FOR THE COLLEGE OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Wesleyan’s College of the Environment (COE) has received two major gifts that together will provide $6.5 million in endowment to support its programs. Essel Bailey ’66 and his wife, Menakka, have increased their support of the COE with a new $4 million commitment that will fund a multipronged eff…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FRIES CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES COMMITTED TO CITIZENSHIP IN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD

[caption id="attachment_8505" align="alignnone" width="1400"] PHOTO: Rebecca Goldfarb Terry '19 During the dedication of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Trustee Mike Fries ’85 spoke on how Wesleyan had enlarged his …

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

MEET HAMILTON PRIZE WINNER AUDREY PRATT ’21

When 18-year-old Audrey Pratt of Needham, Mass., received a ticket to see Hamilton for her birthday, she never dared dream that Lin- Manuel Miranda ’02, Thomas Kail ’99, and members of the all-alumni Hamilton P…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

THE BACKSTORY: THE ASD BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLUES

BY JUDITH NEWMAN ’81 Judith Newman ’81 is the author of To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines (Harper Collins, August 2017). She lives in Manhattan with her twin sons, Henry a…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

We hear it all the time: The cultural and economic context into which our graduates enter is a global one. For many years, Wesleyan has energetically recruited students from across the United States because we …

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

COOK ’62 CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF MEDICAL THRILLERS WITH THE RELEASE OF CHARLATANS

In 1977, Boston ophthalmologist Dr. Robin Cook ’62 published a book that would spawn a new literary genre, change the public’s perception of medicine (and doctors), and a launch a literary career. That book was Coma—a me…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Illusory Bubble

I often hear students refer to the “Wesleyan bubble,” a term meant to suggest that life on campus is somehow apart from the world. In some respects, it is—by design. The opportunity to take a course with no app…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

YOUR SECRET’S SAFE WITH ME: DIPLOMATIC THRILLER WRITER MATTHEW PALMER ’88

Matthew Palmer ’88 is director of the Oce of South Central Europe in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Aairs. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished graduat…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FIVE JOIN WESLEYAN BOARD

KAREN DONFRIED ’84 Karen Donfried is president of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a nonprofit focused on strengthening transatlantic relations and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with seven…

2017 Issue 2August 1, 2017December 12, 2018

HISTORICAL ROW: WESLEYAN AND WORLD WAR I

[caption id="attachment_9391" align="alignnone" width="1039"] Courtesy of Wesleyan University Special Collections & Archives[/caption] In 1914, The Great War—known later as World War I—broke out in Europe. As Unit…