Wesleyan University Magazine

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

STEADY PROGRESS

In 2013 Antonio Farias joined the staff as vice president for equity and inclusion, and Title IX officer. Building on the work of his predecessors, he and his colleagues in the Office for Equity & Inclusion have developed robust policies and procedures for handling Title IX complaints and ed…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

WELL READ

Leo Durocher: Baseball’s Prodigal Son By PAUL DICKSON ‘60 BLOOMSBURY, 2017 In his newest book, Paul Dickson ’60 tells the story of one of the most memorable characters ever to walk onto a baseball field: Leo Duroche…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

ALUMNI NEWS

What does it take to replicate the Wes experience of campuswide collaborations? [caption id="attachment_9281" align="alignnone" width="803"] The Art Girl Army board—(l. To r.) Olivia Harris, Morgan Fletcher, Ebony…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

The Outlier

PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 CHARTS AN UNCOMMON LITERARY COURSE. PAGAN KENNEDY ’84 has always seen things a little differently. When she recently met Abby Solomon, a 21-year-old with a rare genetic condition that prevents he…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Game On

WHAT A YEAR! In April men’s and women’s lacrosse won Little Three Championships outright—the first time in history that both teams won the title in the same season. Wesleyan teams have claimed FIVE Little Three c…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

BRUMBERG ’17 WINS PRINCETON IN LATIN AMERICA FELLOWSHIP

Hilary Brumberg ’17, who volunteers at Wesleyan’s Long Lane Farm, recently received a Princeton in Latin America Fellowship to develop an environmental education program in Costa Rica. As a Princeton in Latin Amer…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

WINSTON HONORED BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT

Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award is the highest tribute paid by Germany to individuals for…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

REMEMBERING DR. PETER NOWELL ’48

Acclaimed cancer researcher Dr. Peter Nowell ’48, the Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at t…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

REMEMBERING WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER ’54

Actor William Christopher ’54, best known for his role as Father Francis Mulcahy in the popular television series M*A*S*H, died December 31, 2016, at his home in Pasadena, Calif. Christopher’s Father Mulcahy was a Rom…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

FERNALD ’50 LEAVES FINANCIAL AID ENDOWMENT OF $25 MILLION

Peter Fernald ’50 arrived at Wesleyan in 1946 from Illinois as a recipient of financial aid. He was awarded a Thorndike Regional Scholarship to promote geographic diversity. More than once in subsequent years he told …