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Reflections on a MOOC 26 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
Forbes followed up with Professor of Psychology Lisa Dierker, who recently finished teaching her first massive open online course (MOOC), “Passion Driven Statistics,” on Coursera. Dierker discussed ho...
Rise of the Megacorporation 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics Richard Adelstein was interviewed for a Harvard Business Review podcast about the emergence of the modern megacorporation, as described in his recent book, The R...
Why Teach? 21 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Writing for The New York Times, President Michael S. Roth reviews a new book by University of Virginia Professor Mark Edmundson, called, Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education. Edumundson is a cham...
Snowden Tests Putin’s Machiavellianism 20 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
Writing in The Moscow Times, Peter Rutland explores the domestic Russian politics surrounding Vladamir Putin’s handling of the Edward Snowden affair. “In Russia, as most everywhere else, all politics...
Jack Hoy: Champion of Campus Diversity 20 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
The Hartford Courant profiled former Wesleyan Dean of Admissions Jack Hoy ’55 in its Extraordinary Lives column. Under his leadership, Wesleyan began actively recruiting black students for the first t...
What is Work Worth? 14 Aug 2013 | 12:50 am
Joyce Jacobsen, Andrews Professor of Economics, was a guest on WNPR’s “Where We Live.” In the wake of widespread demonstrations by fast food employees demanding livable wages, as well as earlier “Occu...
Dangerous Mercury Levels Found in Connecticut Fish 6 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Johan “Joop” Varekamp, Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, professor of earth & environmental sciences, professor of environmental studies, commented in a story on WFSB Eyewitness News 3 abo...
Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations 5 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, curator of cinema archives, reviewed in The Chicago Tribune a new book containing conversations between the former movie star Ava Gardner an...
Wesleyan’s Rich Architectural Legacy 30 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
The Hartford Courant has published a feature story on Wesleyan’s careful stewardship of its historic architectural jewels, dating back to the 19th century, including three buildings on the National Re...
Mapping the Local Interstellar Medium 29 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm
Assistant Professor of Astronomy Seth Redfield spoke to Forbes about creating the first comprehensive map of the local interstellar medium–the gas drifting between the nearest stars–which “will not on...
