David PesciThe New York Times cites performances by Anthony Braxton, professor of music, and Braxton’s students Taylor Ho Bynum ’98, James Fei ’99, Mary Halvorson ’02, and Chris Jonas ‘99 in a round up of Jazz Festivals happening in and around New York City during the next few weeks.
Professor of Music Neely Bruce recreates a lost opera to critical and popular acclaim
Fisher co-founded the popular folk music quintet that had commercial and critical success in the 1960s.
Critically-acclaimed book of poetry by Rae Armantrout receives prestigious award.
Elizabeth McAlister and Gina Ulysse discuss the recent events in Haiti from a variety of perspectives
Professor Basinger discusses some of the defining characteristics of Nancy Meyers' films
Karen Collins a judge in a national science & math competition that awarded $100k in prizes.
Feature on a grant-funded prison education program created by two Wesleyan students.
Gary Yohe: Federal cost vs. benefit formulas may not tell the whole story on climate change.
Angus McCullough '10 is a finalist in a redesign contest for the Grand Concourse in Bronx, N.Y.
Mary Jane Rubenstein, assistant professor of religion, assistant professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, discusses some of varying attitudes among Episcopalians regarding the Vatican's recent offer to join the Roman Catholic Church. Episcopalian have been fractured by their church's recent acceptance of women and gays into leadership positions, with some dioceses reacting by splitting off and forming the Anglican Church of North America.
"Emergency Response Studio" a mobile exhibit constructed in response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2006 by Paul Villinski, reviewed recently by The New York Times, is on display outside the Ezra and Cecille Zilkha Gallery until Nov. 8. The exhibit began as a mobile studio that would allow Villinski to create art in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. It became a de facto piece of performance art in itself as Villinski's built an environmentally friendly mobile living space for the same price as the mobile emergency trailers FEMA provided, and with none of the toxic side effects.