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Anna Deavere Smith Starts Yearlong Artist Residency
Playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith Hon.’97 kicked off her artist residency at Wesleyan with the first public staged reading of her new work This Ghost of Slavery on Oct. 27. The next day, Smith was joined in conversation with Joshua Lubin-Levy ’06, director of the CFA, about her work and the theater’s role in exploring artifacts of history to understand the present.
December 2, 2024
Taming Chaos in Physical Systems Through Artificial Intelligence
Tsampikos Kottos, Lauren B. Dachs Professor of Science and Society, is collaborating with researchers from four other institutions to develop a physics-based AI platform, or “Physics-GPT,” to try to control chaos in systems.
December 4, 2024
New WESU Program Shares Community Engagement Stories
Wesleyan’s campus radio station, WESU, has launched Engage Radio, a new program to highlight the community engagement work of the university, its partners, and residents from across the greater Middletown community.
December 4, 2024
Wes in the News
Architectural Record
Architectural Record featured the new Pruzan Art Center, located between Olin Library and the newly renovated Frank Center for Public Affairs. The Pruzan project was headed up by the Peterson Rich Office architecture firm, founded by alumnus Nathan Rich ’02 and former Visiting Assistant Professor Miriam Peterson.
PENAmerica
Professor of the Practice in Letters Charles Barber was a finalist for PENAmerica’s 2024 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, for works that communicates complex physical or biological concepts to a lay audience. Barber’s book In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army, published in May 2023, tells the story of QuikClot, an emergency product that the army had resisted using.
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