Max Brivic

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History Professor Javier Castro-Ibaseta on "The Aesthetics of Resistance" by Peter Weiss

Assistant Professor in the History Department and the College of Letters, Javier Castro-Ibaseta arrived on campus this year from Spain.

Ghost Stories: Links to Japan’s Past

Although most ghost stories are told around a dark campfire with the purpose of terrifying the listener, on Feb. 4, some 30 students gathered in the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies to hear Professor Miri Nakamura tell a few Japanese horror stories for a completely different reason.

Special Collections & Archives: A Glimpse of the Past

Where on campus can you catch a glimpse of the first editions of Winnie the Pooh or lay eyes on a Shakespeare folio from the 17th century? The Special Collections and Archives, housed in Olin Library.

Service Course Changes Perceptions of Mental Illness

As students place headphones over their ears, they begin to hear voices.

WesGreeks Change the Meaning of Greek Life on Campus

If you talk to members of the newly formed Wesleyan Hellenic Society, also known as WesGreeks, their excitement about all things Greek is palpable.

Playing music with you're brain: Sitting in a room with experimental music professor Alvin Lucier

Professor Alvin Lucier may be the most famous professor here that you’ve never heard of.

Student Hosts Fancy Suppers

As we sat around a makeshift dinner table—a door propped up on milk crates—with Christmas lights and calm music in the background, we knew we weren’t in Usdan anymore.

College in Prison Pilot Program Underway

Despite heated debate and controversy surrounding the college-in-prison program proposed last semester, the groundbreaking program has been approved and inmates at the Cheshire Correctional Institution, in Cheshire, CT, began their classes at the beginning of fall semester.

Growing Green: Sustainable Landscaping Gains Ground

The administration has approved a proposal submitted by The Landscaping Committee—a subgroup of the Environmental Organizers Network (EON)—that calls for the use of native groundcover in place of grass in landscaping projects on campus.