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.

Middletown lies at a great bend in the Connecticut River, 26 miles up from where it flows into Long Island Sound. A four-lane highway by the river at Middletown separates the city from the waterfront.

SINCE HER EARLY YEARS GROWING UP IN SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Renee Romano has been a keen observer of racial relations in this country—and in ...

Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thrive at the intersections of arts and sciences are the ones who will become a part ...

Baltimore City native and Johns Hopkins University Professor Lawrence Jackson ’90 created the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts to host sites of public engagement, through which the city’s ...

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 ...

Professor Hari Krishnan examines and reclaims the original power of Bharatanatyam, the hereditary courtesan dance from South India, by reimagining it in the context of contemporary culture and a ...

A central focus for the Center for the Arts since 2006, the Creative Campus Initiative (CCI) pushes the envelope on where art “belongs” at Wesleyan. With the aim of creating opportunities for artists ...

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 ...

In Fall 2019, students in Professor of Government Erika Franklin Fowler’s GOVT372 Political Communication in a Polarized Age course conducted a survey of Wesleyan students. Among the questions asked ...

Twenty-five years ago, 16-year-old Souleymane Ba ’03 left his home in Senegal, came to the United States, and, eventually, received a scholarship to attend Wesleyan. He participated in WoW (Wesl… ...

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 ...