STEM Unfiltered

Click through our gallery of STEM at Wesleyan! See below for how you can contribute.
The Soft and Active Matter research pod held their annual meeting July 22, 2026 in the Frank Center Forum. The pod consists of Professors Jennifer Mitchel, Grace Mackenzie-Smith, Francis Starr, Sonia Roberts, and Greg Voth and their research groups.
Be a radio telescope! Meredith Hughes’s radio astronomy class visited Haystack Observatory to tour their 37m radio telescope and the correlator that allows the Event Horizon Telescope to make images of black holes.

Radio Astronomy (ASTR240/540) field trip to Haystack observatory, Oct 27, 2026. Image credit: Jens Kauffman

CIS summer research students visit the CellTech Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, June 15, 2026.
The inaugural NSM graduate student poster session took over the third floor atrium of the Casper Life Sciences Building, October 19, 2026.

Do you have a photo of STEM, research, or community at Wesleyan to share with WAVES and the CIS? Submit it here!

The STEM Unfiltered Program is open to all students, staff, and faculty at Wesleyan! 

  1. Snap a photo of anything related to STEM at Wes: projects, presentations, programming, clubs, equipment, buildings, lab groups, PPE, experiments, [your idea here]!
  2. Submit it using this form. Be sure to provide an image description (alt-text), credit, and a caption. 
  3. If your photo is accepted it will be posted to cis_wesleyan on Instagram and added to the STEM Unfiltered gallery online. It might also be used in the website, newsletter, or Zine.
  4. Receive a prize when you reach 5, 10, 15, and 25 published photos.
  5. You may submit as many times as you want. Do not submit copyrighted, proprietary, or incendiary materials. Images must be related to Wesleyan, suitable for work, and not AI-generated. Not all submissions will be accepted or shared.