Olivia DrakeThe Newman's Own Foundation awarded Wesleyan's Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship a $30,000 grant on June 17. The award will fund grants for students doing unpaid internships or other extra-curricular experiences in social justice, corporate responsibility, international development, and related fields.
Bill FisherNandita Vijayaraghavan '13 is a government and East Asian studies major with a love of music. In this video, Vijayaraghavan describes why she chose to come to Wesleyan from her hometown of Chennai, India. She applauds Wesleyan's open curriculum. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ZlDPfvodA[/youtube]
At a special Reunion & Commencement appearance with all ticket sales going to financial aid, Amanda Palmer '98 played the piano and the ukulele and joyfully performed a set of her inimitable songs on the stage in Crowell Concert Hall on May 24. Her husband, Neil Gaiman, winner of writing honors from the Newbery Medal to the Hugo Award to the Will Eisner Comic Award, read from his work and joined Palmer in fielding questions from a rapt audience of alumni, parents and students. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://youtu.be/v8GwhGkZauI[/youtube] More information about Wesleyan's THIS IS WHY campaign and upcoming events can be…
Lauren RubensteinKrishnan "showed real accomplishment, charm and liveliness" at The LaMama Moves! Festival
Several Wesleyan alumni, staff and friends participated in the four-mile Hartford Marathon Foundation's Legend Run June 30 on Wesleyan's campus. The Legends Run brought legends Bill Rodgers ’70 and Amby Burfoot ’68 back to campus, along with some running stars of younger generations. (Photo by Steve McLaughlin) View more photos of the event in this Hartford Courant article:
Running legends Amby Burfoot '68, Bill Rodgers '70 return to campus for race
Barber recalls a time before formal psychiatric diagnoses existed, looking to literary descriptions of suffering
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Class secretary Lloyd Buzzell '68 reflects on lessons learned from his recent 45th Wesleyan reunion
Jenkins: Lontar are a true treasure of world culture, deserve to be recognized and translated
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded Wesleyan's Center for the Arts with a $6,200 grant. The funds will support a performance of "Who's Hungry" in September 2013.
Three professors will share the single largest grant awarded by the state for their research on epilepsy therapies