Dozens of University students and community members gathered outside of North College in a planned demonstration to support Gazans currently under blockade by the Israeli government on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 4:30 p.m. Bearing signs decorated with red and green—the colors of the Palestinian flag—attendees proclaimed their support for the Palestinian liberation movement and, more […]
The Wesleyan Harm Reduction Initiative (WesHRI) began distributing Narcan—a potentially life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose in minutes—across campus in September 2023. Students can now obtain Narcan, also known as Naloxone, anonymously and at no cost through an online form. Modeled after the Middletown Harm Reduction, an organization co-founded by Livia […]
The three newest members of the Office of the President are University Presidential Fellows Pedro Dutra ’23, Sara Eismont ’18, and Anya Kisicki ’22, who will gain firsthand experience in higher education administration through their year-long fellowship. “The goal in establishing the Presidential Fellows program is to help broaden interest in and access to higher […]
The University welcomed the first cohort of 13 African students as part of the Wesleyan African Scholars Program beginning on Thursday, Aug. 24. The program is part of a new initiative that awards full four-year scholarships to outstanding students from Africa and was announced in an all-campus email from President Michael Roth ’78 on Tuesday, May 9. The […]
The University is continuing its steam-to-hot water pipe conversion and is currently on the sixth of nine phases scheduled to be completed by 2029. The half-finished project intends to reduce the University’s carbon footprint as part of their commitment to reach carbon neutrality by 2035. This past summer, the University converted the pipes for Nicolson 7; […]
Hamas—a Palestinian Islamist political and military organization—launched a large-scale attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory bordering the country, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. As the brutal war between Israel and Hamas fighters continues, its presence on the Wesleyan campus and in surrounding communities is impossible to ignore. Student activism has since […]
The University hosted this year’s Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium (KNAC) Fall Symposium, which brings together faculty and students from eight liberal arts colleges and universities in the Northeast to present astronomy student research and foster interaction between campuses. Astronomy and physics departments from Colgate University, Haverford College, Middlebury College, Swarthmore College, Vassar College, Wellesley College, […]
The Gordon Career Center (GCC)—the University’s office for assisting students in professional development through career advising, document review, recruiting, and educational programming—launched a new website in spring 2023. The new website is intended to serve as a digital career center that can provide comprehensive resources for students to explore potential careers and make informed decisions after graduation. GCC Director Sharon Belden […]
Professor of Accounting at Eastern Michigan University Howard Bunsis delivered the results of his external audit of Wesleyan’s finances at Russell House on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Wesleyan’s Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) sponsored the audit, which comes shortly after the AAUP launched its One Faculty! Campaign in Spring 2023 in an effort to institute a series of policy […]
Red & Black Cafe customers may have noticed a new area with paint jars on desks and paintings on walls behind the glass window next to the cafe’s entrance. This two-story facility at 45 Broad St. has served as a temporary workspace for seniors in the art studio program to work on their theses since the beginning of classes […]