With open and airy common spaces—including a glass-walled courtyard and cafe facing an outdoor plaza, Shanklin, and Church Street—Wesleyan’s new science building is designed to be a new campus hub.

Middletown lies at a great bend in the Connecticut River, 26 miles up from where it flows into Long Island Sound. A four-lane highway by the river at Middletown separates the city from the waterfront.

Technology influences the way we eat, sleep, exercise, and perform our daily routines. But what to do when we discover the technology we rely on is built on faulty methodology and legacy effects of ...

SINCE HER EARLY YEARS GROWING UP IN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Renee Romano has been a keen observer of racial relations in this country—and in ...

“Over the last several decades, thanks to the work of activist students, faculty, staff, and alumni, [Wesleyan has] become more aware of the ways in which the ideology of white supremacy has affected ...

Using experimental forms and immersive experiences, Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl reimagines the relationship between actor and audience, creating socially engaged art and theater as ...

A central focus for the Center for the Arts since 2006, the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) pushes the envelope on where art “belongs” at Wesleyan. With the aim of creating opportunities for artists ...

Above: Guests peruse books inside the library of The Barbizon Hotel for Women, photographed in 1950 for the New York Sunday News. A new book by Paulina Bren ’87 traces the decades-long history of the ...

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman ...

a powerful new mode of remote learning. During a regular academic year, many faculty use Wesleyan’s collections—including archaeological artifacts, ethnographic objects, fossils, and natural history ...

Jordan Pond at sunset. Photo by Will Newton/FOA. David MacDonald ’86, the head of Friends of Acadia, wants us to take responsibility for our National Parks. By Kaelyn Lynch I’m supposed to be ...

Professor Hari Krishnan examines and reclaims the original power of Bharatanatyam, the hereditary courtesan dance from South India, by reimagining it in the context of contemporary culture and a ...