David PesciGovernment Professor Elvin Lim says Santorum's attack on intellectual elites is a time-tested tactic
Prof. Ron Jenkins and his students brought classics to prison inmates, a play to the world
Government prof. says social issues rise over fiscal issues will blunt the group's influence
Bill HolderPresident Michael S. Roth and Professor Kari Weil have made a $100,000 gift to Wesleyan in support of endowment for financial aid. In announcing the gift, Joshua Boger ’73, chair of Wesleyan's board of trustees, said: “I can’t thank Michael and Kari enough for their generosity. Their gift represents the kind of ‘stretch gift’ that we are frequently soliciting from other alumni and their families, and I hope that all members of the Wesleyan community will follow their lead in making Wesleyan a philanthropic priority. Their support of financial aid underscores Michael's and Kari’s superb leadership and dedication to Wesleyan’s…
Associate Professor of Biology Michael Singer says there's a method behind fruit flies' alcohol consumption
Chair & Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies discusses this seminal film on Los Angeles' NPR station
"Apothecary" "Passing Time" and "A Late Christmas Gift: Contemporary Prints from Japan" are featured
The President uses Wesleyan Media Project study for a campaign ad, but did he manipulate the data?
The Astronomy Department Chair discusses the cosmic matter in space, and in us all
The former Squash Courts Building located at 41 Wyllys Ave. on Wesleyan’s historic College Row has opened as the renovated home for Art History, the College of Letters and the Career Center. Notably, several College of Letters and Art History alumni have provided gifts for the project to honor faculty members from their undergraduate days. David Resnick ’81, P’13, joined by his wife Cathy Klema P’13, contributed the lead gift to name the Art History Wing in honor of John Paoletti, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Art History. Resnick, now chairman of global financing advisory…
Asst. Prof says Connecticut educational systems suffer from income inequality, not teacher inequality
Seth Redfield had to cut short his first Astronomy 224 class of the 2012 spring semester, but he had a good excuse: he was presenting at an international press conference being held by NASA on one of its recent missions. Redfield, an assistant professor of astronomy, was chosen by NASA to be a non-mission expert to help verify results from the space agency’s ongoing IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) mission, an unmanned probe that analyzes the interstellar boundary that protects much of our solar system, including the Earth, from deadly cosmic rays from interstellar space. One of Redfield’s primary areas…