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.

One federal program provides health coverage to a fifth of all Americans and more than a third of all children. It covers nearly half of all births. It consumes more than $500 billion annually, almost ...

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.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, who teaches writing at Wesleyan, talks about how her diverse family, roots in Philadelphia, and musical background have inspired her creative ...

I returned to my office in South College recently to pick up a few things, having not been there since the University’s transition to remote working and learning environments last spring. It was like ...

The Fremont Troll is 28 years old, 18 feet tall, and lurks beneath the Aurora Bridge in Seattle. It was Steve Badanes ’65 who put it there. Now the Howard S. Wright Professor of Architecture at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composer, book writer, and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 and director Thomas Kail ’99 have reunited to collaborate on Broadway with Hamilton, hailed by critics as one of the most original American ...

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 ...

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Philadelphia, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs, peaking at an 18% unemployment rate last June. That meant a significant number of people—as many as half of ...

Olivia Baglieri ’22 celebrates after scoring the game-winning goal against Tufts as field hockey upset the fifth-ranked Jumbos on Smith Field, 1–0, marking a signature win for first-year head coach ...