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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...

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‘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...

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Wesleyan 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...

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Garden 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...

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Wesleyan 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...

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Senior 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...

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Banned 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...

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Gallery: 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...

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Senior 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...

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Wesleyan 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...

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Student 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...

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Student, 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...

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Wesleyan 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,...

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Gallery: 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...

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Students 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...

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Gallery: 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...

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Publicly 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...

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Wesleyan 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...

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Wesleyan 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...

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Wesleyan 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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