Wesleyan University Magazine

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011May 5, 2014

HISTORICAL ROW: ELIZABETH C. WRIGHT, FOUNDING MOTHER

Wesleyan graduates have a long tradition of founding educational institutions. Some were established to help right social wrongs. The Colored Normal School in Richmond, Va., the first public high school for African American students in the former capital of the Confederacy, was founded in 1867 by Ra…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection

From the Vault: Highlight from the Davison Art Center Collection Clare Rogan, Curator In the beginning was the mark. Contemporary artist Julie Mehretu began her career making small marks on paper, exploring how marks …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Five questions with DICK MILLER, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Q: In the fall, you’ll emerge from retirement to teach ECON 127, “Introduction to Financial Accounting,” a type of course that’s rarely been offered at Wesleyan. Why this course, why now and why you? A: Our students are…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

NEW TRUSTEES Join Board

Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson ’94 (Burlingame, Calif.) Clarkson is a director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a global venture capital firm. She manages the growth and expansion of the DFJ Global Network and serves on the boa…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Gift Establishes the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Wesleyan is establishing the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, which will support students who want to create programs and organizations serving the public good—anywhere in the world. The Patricelli Center …

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Patton Named Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science

The endowed chair was created with the generous support of Alan Dachs ’70, P’98, chair emeritus of the Board of Trustees. “I am delighted that Peter Patton will be the first to hold the Alan M. Dachs Chair in the Natura…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

Commencement 2011

When you are discouraged, stop and think about Rwanda’s recovery . . . or some other evidence of the value of persistence and knowledge and solidarity and connection; think about the friendships you’ve made here and draw…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011April 16, 2014

PRESIDENT’S LETTER

I am spending a good part of the summer off campus, doing research for a book on why liberal education matters. Recently I’ve been reading Thomas Jefferson and also some of his contemporaries. The political importance of…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Trusted Source

During the last six weeks of the 2010 elections, The New York Times, Politico, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bloomberg News, CBS Evening News, ABC News and more than 100 other news media outlets repeatedly referred to one…

2011 Issue 1January 15, 2011April 28, 2014

Vanished Port: Middletown and the Great Era of West Indies Trade

By Erik Hesselberg Middletown lies at a great bend in the Connecticut River, 26 miles up from where it flows into Long Island Sound. A four-lane highway by the river at Middletown separates the city from the waterfront.…