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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.
“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 ...
As Christina Crosby lay severely injured in a hospital bed after a catastrophic bicycling injury, one of the first things the Wesleyan professor requested was for her partner, Janet Jakobsen, to read ...
When the coronavirus pandemic hit Philadelphia, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs, peaking at an 18% unemployment rate last June. That meant a significant number of people—as many as half of ...
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 ...
It was summer 2019, in the thick of the presidential primaries, and Evan Weber ’13, had an axe to grind with the Democratic campaign season. There were no events or policies that would encourage the ...
Todd Forrest ’91 wanted to change the world. So, he became a gardener. To be fair, not just any gardener. As the head horticulturist for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Forrest is the caretaker ...
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Colin G. Campbell’s presidency. At just 35 years old, Campbell was installed as Wesleyan’s youngest president on October 20, 1970, with the ...
A new book by Ahmed M. Badr ’20 illuminates the varied experiences and perspectives of young refugees around the world through their own literary and artistic expression. Stories of refugees in the ...
For over 173,000 followers between Instagram and YouTube, Haley Sacks ’13 is making finance fun. by Kira Goldenberg Haley Sacks had just returned from a business trip to California, only to find her ...
I write with encouraging news and a call to action. At a moment when the abject failings of the criminal legal system stand in such clear and crushing relief, the Wesleyan alumni community has an ...