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4 weeks ago | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Jeff Harder |Mike Mavredakis |Andrew Chatfield |James Sims
By: Jeff Harder and Mike MavredakisIt’s difficult to track every superlative that the Wesleyan’s men’s basketball team notched during the last six months. The team registered a 24-0 record in the regular season, setting a program record and becoming the first NESCAC team to complete an undefeated regular season since the league became a formal playing conference and championships began in the 2000-01 season.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | James Sims |Andrew Chatfield
Copper is essential for many key bodily processes—breathing, forming red blood cells and collagen, and keeping the immune system healthy. The body only requires trace amounts of the mineral in its cells, but an imbalance of copper can lead to serious neurological, cognitive, and muscular disorders, according to a recent paper published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) by Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Teresita (Tere) Padilla-Benavides and co-authors.
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1 month ago | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | James Sims |Andrew Chatfield |Ziba Kashef
Kica Matos, president of the National Immigration Law Center and the Immigrant Justice Fund, began her talk about “Championing Immigrants’ Rights in the Trump Era,” with a few statistics. She noted it had been only 34 days since Inauguration and already the president had issued 10 anti-immigrant executive orders and 36 anti-immigrant policies. “More than one a day,” she said before an audience of students, faculty, and staff at Beckham Hall on Feb. 26.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Andrew Chatfield |Mike Mavredakis |James Sims
The Wesleyan community has demonstrated a commitment to the University’s sustainability goals. Undergraduate participation in sustainability in coursework, workshops, and research incorporating environmental justice is on the rise, as is the University’s engagement with Middletown on sustainability efforts.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Andrew Chatfield |James Sims
President Michael S. Roth ’78 called for wider access to higher education in a piece for The New York Times on anti-elitism. Roth highlighted Wesleyan’s partnership with the National Education Equity Lab, a nonprofit that offers free college classes to Title I high school students to increase educational opportunities for low-income students. “Education transforms lives; we just need to make it more widely available.” Roth’s piece was mentioned in a later Boston Globe article.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | James Sims
In early 2025, Wesleyan University’s website will unveil a reimagined presence—a result of more than a year of innovative work to redefine this front door to the University. Led by University Communications in partnership with a newly formed web governance committee and collaborators across campus, this ambitious project is set to deliver a completely overhauled “core” website, including new sections for Admission and Aid, news, and events.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | James Sims |Mike Mavredakis
A month after one of the most momentous national elections in recent memory, the Wesleyan Media Project hosted their 2024 Post-Election Conference at the Frank Center for Public Affairs on Dec. 6. The all-day event featured four panels, moderated by Government department faculty members: Associate Professor of Government Logan Dancey, Associate Professor of Government Alyx Mark, Professor of Government Erika Franklin Fowler, and Assistant Professor of Government Justin Peck.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Andrew Chatfield |Mike Mavredakis |James Sims
Wesleyan’s Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter is inspiring the next generation of scholars to dig into the world of science and lend a hand to energize the young crop of students that will follow them.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Mike Mavredakis |James Sims
Wesleyan University will open a new art venue in the center of campus, built to highlight the Davison Art Collection, on Wednesday, Feb. 14. Two exhibitions will showcase works from the collection for the first time in over four years. The Pruzan Art Center, located at 238 Church Street in Middletown, between Wesleyan’s Olin Memorial Library and the Frank Center for Public Affairs, will be open Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu | Andrew Chatfield |Mike Mavredakis |James Sims
A student can be more than critical. A student can learn to follow, think independently, be creative, or love—or, all three. The act of being a student, as President Michael S. Roth ’78 explores in his, is one of pursuing freedom. “It’s so great to be a student, because you’re practicing freedom in a way that will increase your capacity to think for yourself and live with other people in a way that’s meaningful,” Roth said during a Feb.
