News Listing

February 10, 2012
In a Q&A for ‘Under 30 CEO’ Earl O’Garro ’05 tells why he considered his start-up, Hybrid Insurance, a success no matter what happened—and in just one year it’s done more than a million dollars in business.

February 9, 2012
Attending a wedding in India, Lydia Wagner ’02 offers observations and photos in an enticing and conversational travelogue: ‘This place is chaotic and disturbing and you should totally go there!’

February 8, 2012
As CEO of Pictures of Health, Jonathan Schwartz ’87 enjoys working for private companies, where he doesn’t have to interact with “quarterly reports, analysts, and pesky journalists and bloggers.”

February 7, 2012
Lindsay Gaskins ’99 has led her company to impressive growth through her unflagging determination.

February 6, 2012
Melissa Stern’s exhibition, “The Talking Cure,” features her sculptures paired with an interactive “interior monologue” audio track and opens in Seattle in March.

February 3, 2012
Also an avid reader (averaging one book a week), writer Laura Fraser ’82 picks ten of her favorites that she read last year.

February 2, 2012
The New York Times reports that Lael Brainard ’83, U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, travels abroad several times a year to help coax European financial negotiations along.

February 1, 2012
Emory Professor Lawrence Jackson’s upcoming book, My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War (Chicago, May 2012), was a labor of love, filled with surprising discoveries.

January 31, 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film directed by Benh Zeitlin ’04, produced by Michael Gottwald ’06, Dan Janvey ’06 and Josh Penn, and co-written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar was warmly received at Sundance.

January 30, 2012
The Middletown Press dubbed Izzy Greenberg ’05—exec director of the North End Action Team and resident—‘Person of the Year.’

January 27, 2012
Fortune magazine recently interviewed Jonathan Bush ’93, CEO of Athenahealth, about how to make doctors more efficient.

January 26, 2012
A review David Leisner’s new album, Favorites, on classicalcommunications.com, praises Leisner for his intellect, technique, and the program he presents.

January 25, 2012
In Vogue (Sept. 2011) writer and educator Elizabeth Hun Schmidt ’89 talks about her interest in the educational reform movement and curriculum work at Brooklyn Ascend Charter School.

January 24, 2012
PBS NewsHour highlights the work of Alan Miller ’76, former investigative reporter, whose News Literacy Project teaches young people to become skeptical media consumers.

January 23, 2012
Chris Lake ’05 keeps his classmates and Wesleyan friends up to date by writing class notes on Wesconnect.

January 23, 2012
GQ sent Wells Tower ’96 to Canada’s Yukon Territory to check out new gold mania as the economy continues to slump.

January 20, 2012
Dr. Lori Verderame MALS ’89, who will be starring on the Discovery Channel’s Auction Kings as an expert appraiser, offers tips to protect your treasures on ABC-15.com in Arizona.

January 19, 2012
Prolific writer Steve Almond ’88 discusses how local bookstores are combating e-books and e-commerce by publishing special books of their own.

January 18, 2012
Paul Gionfriddo ’79 sees Romney attacking the individual mandate he created and President Obama defending the individual mandate he opposed, and he dreams for something better.

January 17, 2012
Performer, Educator, and Writer Una Aya Osato ’04, premieres LOL: The End, a three-person production (with her father and sister), at FRIGID NY Theater Festival in February.