Lauren RubensteinPresident Michael Roth hopes Wesleyan's new online courses will shed light on how people learn
Odede '12 and Posner '09 run a girls' school, clinic, water and sanitation program in a Nairobi slum
Brian KattenThis fall, the Wesleyan softball team has expanded its efforts beyond the sports field in order to help others. In November, the team "adopted" a 13-year-old Cromwell, Conn. girl who struggles with multiple health problems, and donated to the Red Cross' Hurricane Sandy relief effort. Joining the Wesleyan softball team through the Team IMPACT program is 13-year-old Stephanie Lubogo (shown seated in middle of photo with younger sister Emily on the right). Team IMPACT matches local youngsters suffering from a variety of maladies with college athletic teams to boost their confidence and sense of belonging. Stephanie was born with an…
Olivia DrakePeta2 selected Wesleyan University as the 2012 “Most Vegan-Friendly College” in the small U.S. schools category. Wesleyan also won the contest in 2009. Tens of thousands of students nationwide voted for the nominees. According to Peta2, the number of vegan college students has more than doubled nationwide since 2005, and it only continues to rise as students learn about the routine abuse that animals face when killed for food. “When a school has chefs who specialize in vegan desserts on staff, you know you’re in for a treat,” Peta2 reported on Wesleyan's dining options. “This year’s (Halloween dessert) theme, Gotham…
Gina Athena Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology, associate professor of African-American studies, was invited to perform her avant-garde meditation, "Voodoo Doll, What if Haiti Were a Woman?" at two international conferences in 2013. Ulysse's piece focuses on coercion and consent inspired by Gede, the Haitian Vodou spirit of life and death. She intersperses the story with Haiti’s geopolitical history, statistics, theory and Vodou chants. On Jan. 12-19, Ulysse will attend the 8th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. There, she will join more than 400 artists, performers, scholars and activists who will…
Roth: Wesleyan is committed to meeting students' full need, though its economic model must change
Rosenthal and his son compiled and edited the legendary folk singer's private writings in this book