Wesleyan University Magazine

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Malamut’s Astronomy Draws on Hubble Observations

In the summer of 2010 Craig Malamut traveled to the Easter Islands to study and photograph a rare solar eclipse. Soon after his eclipse observations were completed, NASA used one of his photographs in their official materials about the event. He also spent a week collaborating with astronomers from …

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

From Mourning To Celebration: A Posthumous Book

The Voyage of the Rose City: An Adventure at Sea, the senior thesis of John Moynihan ’82, was published this fall, 29 years after his graduation and seven years after his death. Kirkus Review calls it “a sincere study o…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

New Paintings by David Schorr at Davison Art Center in Early 2012

The most recent work by Professor of Art David Schorr will be shown in February and March 2012 in the exhibition APOTHECARY (storehouse) at Davison Art Center. The show features more than 75 paintings of antique apotheca…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

Wesleyan Receives $2 Million challenge for Humanities Program

Wesleyan has received a $2-million challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help endow the Center for the Humanities. The grant requires Wesleyan to raise an additional $4 million in endowment funds over t…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 19, 2014

(Your) Brain on Culture

By David Coombs, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities. Will brain scans revolutionize the liberal arts? Is neurocognitive science going to become, as The New York Timesput it recently, “the n…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012February 26, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Education depends fundamentally on our ability to generate optimism and find reasonable (defensible) ways to sustain it. When our faith in the future is shaken, whether it be by technologies we don’t understand, economic…

2011 Issue 2June 21, 2011September 23, 2014

Not About the Pearls

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN JULES OPTON-HIMMEL ‘02 and SEAN PATCH ‘02 RARELY SPOKE OF OYSTERS. THEN THEY STARTED GROWING THEM. by Eric Gershon '98 It’s an overcast June morning on Ninigret Pond, a coastal lagoon in Charlest…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Darkly Funny World of Bruce Kaplan ’86

CARTOONS AS A DIARY OF ANGST By Lauren Weber ’94 You won’t find many unicorns or sunflowers in Bruce Eric Kaplan’s cartoons. If you did, the unicorn might be saying wistfully that he wished more little girls loved hi…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

The Real Value of Land: Ownership, Not Auction

ATTORNEY JOHN POLLOCK ’94 UPDATES HEIRS’ RIGHTS BY JIM H. SMITH, MALS ’02 Ervin and James Jones and their seven siblings inherited 38 acres of land in the hill country of eastern Alabama. The two brothers—elderly, poor …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011September 23, 2014

A Gift For When Experience Pays But Internships Don’t

Rebecca Friendly ’11 knows that she’s one of the fortunate 2011 graduates: She has a full-time position in the California office of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress (CAP), a policy institute and th…