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Eric GershonBelow are several photos taken at Wesleyan's 179th Commencement Ceremony: View additional photos of Reunion & Commencement Weekend on Wesleyan's Flickr site.
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Google employee Doug Cody ’09 visited campus May 10 to record images for Google Maps. Here are some photos of the man-powered Google-bike that hauls the camera and computer:
Q: Tara, when did you join Wesleyan's Office of Admission? A: I started working at Wesleyan in July of 2007. Q: What are they key ways you recruit students to Wesleyan? A: We recruit students in many different ways. Prospective students and their families visit our campus at all times of the year. We also travel all over the country and the world to spread the word about Wesleyan. We see every activity we undertake as recruiting. Q: What percentage of your time is spent traveling? Which regions of the country do you oversee? A: I spend about six to eight weeks…
Bill HolderIn the video below, Joshua Boger '73, P'06, P'09, chairman of the Wesleyan Board of Trustees and founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, talks about his lifelong interest in chemistry, entrepreneurship, his Wesleyan Experience, and the toughest challenge of his professional life: developing cures for hepatitis C and cystic fibrosis. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFiJDK1I8xE[/youtube]
Cynthia RockwellThe nationwide tour of the Tony award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights ended its run with a Wesleyan flourish. Andy Peretz ’84, inspired by the Wesleyan on Broadway alumni events, began organizing an event in Miami to celebrate with the local Wesleyan community at the Arsht Center Theater. In The Heights, created and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02, was directed by Thomas Kail ’99, who agreed to conduct a talk for the alumni at a special reception at the Miami performance on April 2. “What an amazingly articulate guy, so full of life,” says Peretz of Kail, who also directed…
David LowMatthew Weiner ’87 was featured recently by Time magazine on The 2011 Time 100, a list that recognizes the most influential people in the world. This list includes artists, activists, reformers, researchers, heads of state, and captains of industry. Weiner is the Emmy Award-winning creator, writer and executive producer of the highly regarded dramatic series, Mad Men, which has been renewed by AMC for two more seasons. In Time, actress Elizabeth Moss who plays Peggy Olson on Mad Men, said: “Matthew Weiner is no less than a genius. His influence on the world of television is unparalleled. He created a…
Hollywood’s highly successful writing and producing team Alex Kurtzman ’95 and Roberto Orci were recently featured in in an article by Dorothy Pomerantz in Forbes, “Hollywood‘s Secret Weapons.” The duo has worked on a number of films that together have earned $3 billion at the box office in six years, including Transformers I and II, The Proposal, and the 2009 blockbuster Star Trek, and they are able to transform genre pictures into something very special to audiences and studio heads. This summer they are behind big summer movie, Cowboys & Aliens, starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford as 19th-century cowboys…