Wesleyan Advancing Visionary Exploration in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics
Summer 2025 is the fifth birthday of Wesleyan’s Inclusion in STEM initiative, now known as WesWAVES, or Wesleyan Advancing Visionary Exploration in STEAM. At five years old, WesWAVES is a multi-directional information bridge, connecting minds all over campus: channeling faculty expertise and life experience to the student body, enabling students to share advice across disciplines,…
The year was 1771, and Edmund Halley was on the verge of accomplishing what no one had done before: accurately calculating the distance between Earth and the sun. History books focus on the moment of his epiphany—the second the numbers all came together—but his discovery was decades in the making: astronomers had been working on…