This year’s Summer Science Symposium had record numbers of eighteen student speakers and 151 posters.
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There’s a new octopus in town!
Like the octopus the CIS is flexible, adaptable, inquisitive, highly intelligent, and is focused on reaching out to all sides of Wesleyan’s campus and community.
WesWAVES Expands On Inclusion in STEM
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,…
WesSIR’s Lab Shadowing Week: Breaking Barriers in Research
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…
StarGayzing makes the skies more inclusive
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…