Wesleyan University Magazine

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023July 4, 2023

From the Collections: African Material Cultures and the Archaeology & Anthropology Collections

Stories and legends abound regarding the Orange Judd Museum of Natural History, the teaching museum that existed on Wesleyan’s campus between 1871 and 1957—the giant ground sloth skeleton whose unwie…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 20, 2023

Nietzsch Factor: Wesleyan’s First Ultimate Team

At Long Lane fields in spring 2022, Nietzsch Factor, Wesleyan’s open division ultimate team, began practice. Gaelin “Ga…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Calls to Civic Duty and Fighting Injustice Echo throughout R&C 2023

Blue skies and temperatures in the 70s and 80s made for a picturesque Reunion & Commencement Weekend as graduatin…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Kantika: A Multigenerational Sephardic Saga

Elizabeth Graver ’86, P’25 is fascinated by the way individual lives intersect with history. Many of her novels feature…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Explosively Happy

Seniors let loose the tension of many months of hard work after turning in their final theses during the traditional ch…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Alumni News & Notes

This past February, Dr. Robert Abel ’65, P’93, ’98 journeyed to Africa to work alongside the staff at Rwanda Internatio…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

In Brief: Exciting news, scholarship, and announcements from around campus

Beginning in fall 2023, a new scholarship program will offer a group of exceptional students from Africa the opportunit…

2023 Summer IssueJune 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Letters to the Editor

In the absence of any Letters to the Editor for this issue, we turned to ChatGPT for a humorous look at the AI versi…

2023 Spring IssueJune 13, 2023June 13, 2023

In “Massive Power Ball,” Karen Xu ’22 explores intersection of sports and politics

“Fire Up” (2022), a work by Karen Xu ’22 from her exhibition "Massive Power Ball." Photo by Mark Brendel of Perceptions…