Wesleyan Advancing Visionary Exploration in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics
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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,…
For many students at Wesleyan, getting involved in research can feel like stepping into an unfamiliar world. Labs can be intimidating, and the process of reaching out to professors or securing a research position aren’t always clear. Recognizing these challenges, Wesleyan Students in Research (WesSIR) organized the Shadowing and Lab Meeting Sit-In Week, an initiative…
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…
“What does research mean to you?” To the co-founders of Wesleyan’s newest student organization, WesSir, research is aplatform for cultivating a community. Founded this summer by Shekinah Mba (’26), Ethan Chu (’26), Diana Tran (’26), LaurenEldarazi (’26), and Abigail Oduro (’27), WesSir hopes to increase students’ comfort withfinding research opportunities and contacting faculty members. In…
I recently came across the New York Times article, “NASA Is Recruiting a New Class of Astronauts,” when researching potential candidates who could be the next featured profiles for Wesleyan University’s College of Sciences’ Inclusion in STEM Initiative. I don’t know about you, but I have always been intrigued by NASA’s space program and the concept of humanity going to…