In 2007, Wesleyan magazine published an article about a groundbreaking new off-Broadway musical In the Heights, the first major show by a young composer Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 and directed by Thomas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Field Yates ’09 was a two-sport athlete and psychology major at Wesleyan. He now uses his people skills and sports insight to help lead ESPN’s NFL and fantasy sports coverage. Since graduating in 2009 ...

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.

Melissa Stern ’80. Photo: Alison Rosa. It is worth taking the time to get beneath the surface of Melissa Stern’s art. On first glance at her drawing “Wolf Dancer,” for instance, you see a shadowy ...

Above: Guests peruse books inside the library of The Barbizon Hotel for Women, photographed in 1950 for the New York Sunday News.A new book by Paulina Bren ’87 traces the decades-long history of the ...

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 ...

THE SOLUTION TO PERHAPS THE GREATEST MYSTERY of ancient Greece depended on a chance meeting near the remains of a Roman villa in Portugal in 1995. True, things got clearer as an unsuspecting woman ...

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 ...