Wesleyan University Magazine

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 her from eating more than a few bites at a time, she didn’t focus on Solomon’s str…

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 …

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

ALL-STAR, ALL-ALUMNI COMMITTEE TO CHOOSE HAMILTON PRIZE RECIPIENT

This spring, Wesleyan’s inaugural Hamilton Prize Selection Committee will choose the first recipient of the Wesleyan University Hamilton Prize for Creativity—a four-year full-tuition scholarship that will be awarded…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

President’s Letter

In March I received a carefully thought-out proposal for a resource center that would support students who feel themselves to be at risk because of their own experience on campus or who feel marginalized by long-term tre…

2017 Issue 1April 1, 2017December 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: Expanding Our Vision

When I was a young teenager, I devoured science fiction. I figured that by the turn of the 21st century we would have a colony on Mars, or at least the moon, so science fiction seemed like tomorrow’s news today. My re…