Senior Thesis: Peter Ketels Fulweiler ’23 Comments on AI and Surveillance...
Art, like many areas of creative expression, does not always get the full attention it deserves. On average, visitors only spend 15 to 30 seconds looking at an artwork before moving on, according to...
View Article‘Dance as Activism’ Students Create Movements to Poems from Browne’s ‘Chrome...
Students from the “Dance as Activism” course this spring will perform a new movement piece based on excerpts from Shapiro-Silverberg Distinguished Writer in Residence Mahogany L. Browne‘s poetry...
View ArticleWesleyan in the News: May 2023
President Michael S. Roth ’78 spoke about “Safe Enough Spaces” and their place in the debate around free speech at a symposium on Speech and Expression on College Campuses at Skidmore College on April...
View ArticleGarden Festival: A ‘non-traditional thesis’ for Earth Day
By Maia Bronfman ’24 Talia Zitner ’23 organized the Garden Festival under the mentorship of Professor of Physics Brian Stewart as a “non-traditional thesis,” about sustainability and community in...
View ArticleWesleyan Announces New African Scholars Program
A new scholarship program will offer a group of exceptional students from Africa the opportunity to join the Wesleyan University community. Beginning fall 2023, the newly announced Wesleyan African...
View ArticleSenior Thesis: Thomas ’23 Believes in Regenerative Agriculture
After working on a controlled environment aquaponics farming project at The Pomfret School, Brinton Thomas ’23 was a full-on believer in the concept. He thought it was the next phase in sustainable...
View ArticleBanned Books Distributed on Freedom to Learn Day
With access to knowledge under assault across the country, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department and the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism struck a blow for the freedom...
View ArticleGallery: Wesleyan Students Dance, Sing at Spring Fling
Hands touching the sky. Hearts vibrating to the beat of an amplifier with the bass maxed out. Cowboy boots scattered among the grass. Sunglasses of every shape and shade imaginable. Through all the...
View ArticleSenior Thesis: Koral ’23 Highlights Community Abortion Care Network in México
A patient sits on a cold, hard table under fluorescent lights while a doctor prepares to do their work. Acknowledging that there are limits to what medical practitioners can do, Isabel Koral ’23 said...
View ArticleWesleyan Announces 2023 Student Prize Winners
Paul Quach ’26 felt that immersing himself in the work of the Wesleyan Student Assembly was a great way to make an impact and to find his place at Wesleyan. Eliana Bloomfield ’25 found echoes of her...
View ArticleStudent Speaker Levin ’23 Will Miss People at Wesleyan
Before Ben Levin ’23 was a Wesleyan student, he visited a friend on campus. They ventured into a classroom together to find a student working through a math problem on a chalkboard while blasting punk...
View ArticleStudent, Two Staff Members Receive 2023 Peter Morgenstern-Clarren ’03 Awards
It started with Akansha Singh’s ’23 babysitter in India, Rashmi, who struggled to find a job after completing school. Rashmi married at 17 and had a child, a daughter she does not plan on educating...
View ArticleWesleyan University Celebrates 191st Commencement May 28
With an eye towards a bright future, the graduates of Wesleyan University’s Class of 2023 took their first steps out into the world on Sunday. At its 191st Commencement, held on Sunday, May 28,...
View ArticleGallery: Wesleyan’s 191st Commencement
At the sound of an emphatic drumbeat, the Class of 2023 and the faculty who led them to their degrees marched from atop Foss Hill on Sunday morning for Wesleyan’s 191st Commencement. Smiles of...
View ArticleStudents Inducted Into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence—a document written by a group of five men. Five months later, five different people gathered at the College of William...
View ArticleGallery: Alumni Celebrate Annual Reunion
Alumni from years ending in 3 and 8 gathered on Wesleyan’s campus in Middletown from May 25 to 27 for the annual Reunion celebration at Reunion & Commencement Weekend. From WESeminars to the annual...
View ArticlePublicly Financed Judicial Elections Viewed as More Legitimate, New Paper Says
Alyx Mark New research from Assistant Professor of Government Alyx Mark and Tiger Bjornlund ’24 shows that courts with publicly financed elections are viewed as more legitimate and less susceptible to...
View ArticleWesleyan Students, Alumni Earn National Science Foundation Fellowships
This spring several current and former Wesleyan students were awarded a National Science Foundation Award. This fellowship award is among the most prestigious available in the category. The National...
View ArticleWesleyan Team Wins Global “Map the System” Challenge
Three Wesleyan students’ in-depth analysis of the causes of and possible solutions for the problem of child marriage in Indonesia won the University of Oxford’s 2023 “Map the System” Challenge. The...
View ArticleWesleyan Students Receive Goldwater Scholarship
Two promising young scientists at Wesleyan, Aaron Berson ’24 and Jessica Luu ’24, were chosen for the distinguished Barry Goldwater Scholarship, given annually to hundreds of college sophomores and...
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