Wesleyan University Magazine

ProfilesSeptember 15, 2015September 23, 2015

EDUCATOR MIDDY TILGHMAN ’03 KAYAKS ON THE “ROOF OF THE WORLD”

[caption id="attachment_6143" align="alignleft" width="752"] Middy Tilghman ’03, a physics major at Wesleyan and a kayaker, felt a postgrad pull to the unpaddled waters of the Pamir Mountains—the “roo…

ProfilesSeptember 15, 2015September 23, 2015

KATE GORDON ’94 BRINGS AN “ASTUTE POLICY MIND” TO CLIMATE-CHANGE ECONOMICS

[caption id="attachment_6151" align="alignleft" width="752"] Kate Gordon ’94 explores the impact of climate change on th…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 24, 2015

PATHOGENS AND BIOFUELS OFFER BIG QUESTIONS THAT MOTIVATE ERIKA TAYLOR

[caption id="attachment_6011" align="alignleft" width="752"] Erika Taylor, assistant professor of chemistry and of envir…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 16, 2015

JUST PUBLISHED

Richard Beach ’67, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, and Thomas Reynolds Understanding and Creating Digital Texts…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 15, 2015

SCHOLAR ATHLETE ANDREW YIN ’15

[caption id="attachment_5981" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] Photo by John Van Vlack[/caption] Community is import…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 15, 2015

HISTORICAL ROW: HENRY BACON’S IMPRINT ON WESLEYAN

Henry Bacon is known today primarily as the architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated in 1922. Be…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 15, 2015

BETWEEN THE LINES: MY CHARACTERS, MYSELF

In her essay “Revision as Creation,” May Sarton wrote, “… what is the value of the finished work compared to what… [the …

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015

TWEETS REVEAL PRIORITIES IN CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS

[caption id="attachment_6009" align="aligncenter" width="3596"] Assistant Professor of Government Logan Dancey says Twit…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015September 15, 2015

A SPARKLING WORK OF SCHOLARSHIP

The late Stanley Lebergott was a longtime professor of economics at Wesleyan with a towering reputation for his work in labor statistics. He also delighted in using data to both illuminate significant cultural trends and…

2015 Issue 2September 15, 2015

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

[caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="300"] President Michael S. Roth '78.[/caption] Early in my presidency, a Wesleyan faculty member described the difference between professors here and professors at…