Professor Tezak aims to create an intentional community in his lab with students from diverse backgrounds with diverse ideas and perspectives.
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…
Professor Grace McKenzie-Smith on Social Perturbations in Insects and in Physics
A large part of seeing oneself as a physicist is seeing others like oneself in positions of power in physics.
Trends in interdisciplinary studies at Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University’s major pairings are visualized in an interactive graph, with dot sizes representing major popularity, and the thickness of lines between dots indicates the frequency of specific major combinations. This visualization allows you to easily identify popular major combinations and trends in interdisciplinary studies at Wesleyan University. Data retrieved from Wesleyan’s major reports page. STEM (NSM…
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…