Wesleyan University Magazine

2016 Issue 2August 1, 2016December 13, 2018

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

As I write this in the first days of July, I am overwhelmed by the generosity shown by the extended Wesleyan family during the course of our THIS IS WHY fundraising campaign. When we started discussing a fundraising campaign in 2008, the financial world was teetering on collapse, and the economy in …

2016 ISSUE 1May 24, 2016December 13, 2018

GEOLOGIST TO GOVERNOR: LIVING THE OPPOSITE OF WOE

Irrepressibly optimistic, funny, self-deprecating, at times self-doubting but driven to tackle difficult challenges. The…

2016 ISSUE 1May 6, 2016December 13, 2018

WESLEYAN RESPONDS TO SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

Last fall President Roth took what some thought was a risk. Appalled by the Syrian refugee crisis, he issued a challenge…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

GRATITUDE FOR THE LATE PROFESSOR FIRSHEIN

I was very sad to hear the obituary news about my mentor, adviser, and friend, Professor Bill Firshein. I worked in Bill’s lab for two years and did my senior thesis with him, and I was one of the first students to gradu…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

KUDOS TO DR. MICHAEL GREENBERG ’76

Flipping through Issue 3, 2015, I came across the Newsmaker profile of Michael Greenberg ’76, PhD, in the Class Notes. The writeup was appropriately congratulatory, but he deserves so, so much more. Among other disorders…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

COMMENT ON PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION

For a retired physician now in my second career as an instructor in biology at the undergraduate level this article was of great practical interest. I often tell my students that a good indicator of how well they underst…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

ARGUS CONTROVERSY

Black Lives Matter. It was interesting to note the differing reactions of Wesleyan students to an Argus article using those words (Wesleyan, 2015, issue 3, page 13). It is not my intention to come down on either side of …

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016November 13, 2017

9/11 TRAUMA RESPONSE RELEVANT TO OTHER GROUPS

[caption id="attachment_6489" align="alignleft" width="200"] Clifford Chanin ’75, vice president for education and public programs for the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, in the museum’s soaring Foundation Hall. Phot: …

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: WHAT OUR READERS SAY

[caption id="attachment_749" align="alignleft" width="200"] William Holder ’75, editor.[/caption] I was a young reporter for the Middletown Press when it moved from its hole-in-the-wall location on the north end of Ma…

2016 ISSUE 1April 6, 2016December 13, 2018

SCHOLAR ATHLETE: SU PARDO ’16

Su Pardo ’16, pitcher for the Wesleyan softball team, is majoring in classical studies and economics. “I’d taken four…