Last Tuesday, in the Daniel Family Commons, Dr. John C. Mather delivered the 20th annual Sturm Memorial Lecture. A senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Flight Center, Mather earned a Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work in detecting the cosmic microwave background, strong physical evidence in support of the Big Bang theory.
Technically speaking, The Undergraduate Journal of Social Studies isn’t new. It’s more accurate to say that it was “brought back to life.”
When and how did you get involved with the Global Referendum for a Democratic World Parliament?
Being a Wesleyan student and a political activist has always gone hand-in-hand. For a left-leaning campus like the University, senior Bradley Spahn’s position as president of College Democrats of Connecticut comes as hardly a surprise.
Tonight, Thomas Kail ’99 will be offering a very special treat for Wesleyan alumni, students, staff, faculty, and parents at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway, in the form of a special performance of Kail’s latest project, Lombardi, which follows the life of famous football coach Vince Lombardi.
As any anarchist will tell you, anarchism and radicalism aren’t the most popular political movements in America today.
When transfer students are asked why they came to Wesleyan, they usually offer up something about how they desired more academic rigor or a change in social scene.
Most students here would not have pegged Wesleyan as an ultimate Frisbee powerhouse, but that is probably because most people are not aware of the fact that the University has three exceptional club teams that are very serious about the sport.
One year ago, Eugenie Carabatsos ’10 became the first rider from the Wesleyan Equestrian Team to win first place at the national level. After performing consistently well all year, Carabatsos has again qualified for nationals, which the team will attend later this year in Kentucky.
At the beginning of April, the Connecticut River flooded its banks, resulting in an annual freshet—a flood caused by a combination of heavy rainfall and the spring thaw.
Last Wednesday, a group of students gathered at a table outside Usdan with a firm goal in mind: to bring down one of the most well-known icons in the world.
“No, I’m not Batman,” said David Wolovsky ‘10. “But if I was, I probably wouldn’t tell you anyway.”
Professor of Religion Jan Willis wasn’t quite sure what to expect when she heard that she was one of a few individuals selected by the American State Department to attend a bilateral conference on religion in Indonesia.
Lydia Blanchard ’06 had always been really interested in baking, and she’d always wanted to open her own place.
Michael Foster ’87 first became interested in the mythical Japanese beasts known as “yokai” during graduate school when he was studying Japanese literature and folklore.
Tufts University in Boston recently enacted a new regulation preventing students from engaging in sexual activities in their dorms if their roommate is present.
Although the popular social networking site Facebook began at Harvard in 2004 and quickly spread to college campuses across America, college students are among the first to abandon or delete their profiles as younger teenagers and older adults join the site.