IN THEY DAYS AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA, many were shocked by the depth of poverty in New Orleans. To others who were already fighting its effects in America’s inner cities, the unfolding story of failed ...

I’m supposed to be interviewing David MacDonald, but he’s the one asking all the questions. Before I can thank him for taking a Zoom call with me on what he called “a perfect Maine September day,” ...

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 ...

That would be our own High Street, of course, and the luminary who made the statement would be Charles Dickens. At least that’s the story according to a 1942 article about the DKE House by Lucy Colton ...

With nine syllables in just two words “pedagogical innovation” has a weighty feel. At once cumbersome and promising, it suggests “K–12 meets Silicon Valley.” Something school principals talk about, ...

Associate Professor of the Practice in Earth and Environmental Sciences Kim Diver and Sam Raby ’17 use cutting-edge visualization tools to inform and empower. But bringing data into such stark relief ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KARIN HALVORSEN ’97 HAS NO TROUBLE REMEMBERING AN AFTER-DINNER DEBATE she witnessed as an undergraduate on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily, co-sponsored by Wesleyan and the University of Virginia. The ...

President Emeritus Douglas J. Bennet ’59, P’87, ’94, Hon. ’94, who passed away in June at age 79, presided over a dozen years of remarkable progress at Wesleyan that reshaped not only the physical ...

Jeanine Basinger had never taught a film class in her life when she first arrived at Wesleyan on May 31, 1960. As the new marketing director of the University’s American Education Publications, she ...