Wesleyan University Magazine

On the Sunday of Homecoming/Family Weekend Wesleyan’s Legacy families filled Denison Terrace with their smiles—no doubt made wider by Wesleyan’s Little Three football win the day before. Gathered in family groupings, b…

  [caption id="attachment_1767" align="alignleft" width="240"] Reviewers have consistently praised Mary Roach ’81 for her insightful research into quirky topics.[/caption] Have you ever wondered why humans prefer …

[caption id="attachment_1776" align="alignleft" width="245"] RIchard Grossman, professor of economics.[/caption] On Saturday, June 28, 1919, the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdina…

[caption id="attachment_1770" align="alignleft" width="238"] Psychologist Lisa Dierker.[/caption] There are “number” people, and there are “word” people. Left brains, and right brains. “Quants” and English majors. Or so…

By Todd Stone ’05.  Alok Appadurai ’00 recently said that for most everything he has done professionally, he’s been able to take out his business card, look anybody in the eye, and say: “This is the work I do and I’m pr…

In Nataly Kogan’s native Russia, there’s a saying: “To write is like to pee. You should only do it if you can’t hold it anymore.” She gives the same advice to young people who ask her about starting a business. [caption…

Down a steep drop on an unimproved road in rural Vermont lies a picturesque 500-acre farm where Sivan Cotel ’05 is toiling with a small group of business partners to build a brand for a beverage most associated with the …