Usdan University Center is a gathering spot for everyone, creating a hub in the heart of campus. All are welcome to stop by and enjoy a comfortable, convenient place to p connect with classmates and/or family members, meet new friends… or simply hang out.

Usdan University Center

Food and beverages available for purchase on site.

Usdan University Center

Food and beverages will be available for purchase. 

Exley Science Center

Students must arrange in advance with their professors for parents to visit classes. Please plan to arrive on time and to stay for the duration of the class. We kindly ask visitors to follow any COVID-19 safety protocols established by professors for their class and come prepared to wear a mask if asked.

Locations throughout campus.

Visit the Campus Store located on the first floor of the Usdan University Center. 

Usdan University Center

Visit the campus bookstore located on Main Street.

413 Main Street

Stop by the Gordon Career Center and visit with staff to learn about the resources available to students to explore career paths and find meaningful work. All are welcome!

Gordon Career Center, Boger Hall

Advance registration through the Office of Admission is required. Register for the tour.

Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

Massive Power Ball by Karen Xu '22 is rooted in a close relationship to basketball. Growing up in China, Xu regularly played the game and watched broadcasts of the NBA. The past few years living in the U.S. have enabled Xu to gain a more complex understanding of her favorite pastime. In Massive Power Ball, Xu has created a character who may simultaneously be a surrogate for the artist, a basketball star, or the crowd of fans. Through animation and printmaking, Xu places that character in scenes that incorporate both communist propaganda and screenshots of basketball games. She inquires how basketball can be an arena for the clash and meditation of individual desire and collective force, extending the thrill of the game into her consideration of the dynamics of the China-U.S. relationship and Chinese Communist Party ideals. Xu’s playful criticality manifests in many different media including printmaking, collage, and video, embodying her basketball world of lighthearted fantasy within an uncompromising reality. This presentation marks the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition.

Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, 343 Washington Terrace

fron/terra incognita + Hostile Terrain (HT94) is an exhibition comprising a series of lectures, performances, readings, and art installations on the broad theme of borders, migration, displacement, and violence. Programming will provoke reflections on the territorial dimensions of borders and their consequential effects.

The exhibition is anchored by the Hostile Terrain (HT94) installation in the gallery. HT94 has been installed at many institutions both nationally and globally in 2021 and throughout 2022. The work of forensic anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason de León (University of California, Los Angeles), HT94 is a visceral and visual documentation of migrant deaths along the United States / Mexico border. ​The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. The installation is created by Wesleyan student volunteers, who record identifying details of each person and then pin the toe tags to a map of the border region.

Co-curated by A. George Bajalia, Benjamin Chaffee, Rosemary Lennox,  Paula C. Park, María Ospina, and Anu Sharma. 

Main Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace

Women at War features works by a selection of the leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current war, as represented in art across media. Several works in the exhibition were made after February 24, 2022, when Russia began full-scale invasion; others date from the eight years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist “republics” in Donbas in 2014

Zilkha South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Terrace

The posters and booklets in this exhibit are fragments of the rich history of Indian cinema and are illustrations of its importance in popular culture. The song booklets (which first appeared in the 1920s), are particularly unique to Indian cinema and contain songs, film stills, and a synopsis of the plot. This exhibit features materials from the 1930s through the 2010s, displayed in both the Rick Nicita Gallery, and a display case in the Center for Film Studies lobby.
Individual film posters and song booklets were chosen from CFILM Assistant Professor Anuja Jain’s personal collection, others were acquired through the Albritton Center Collaborative Project Faculty Grant, and others were donated from the South Asian collection at the George Eastman Museum.

Rick Nicita Gallery, Jeanine Basinger Center for FILM Studies

Stop by the Gordon Career Center as recipients of the 2022 Wesleyan Summer Grant share their experiences from this past summer. The Wesleyan Summer Grant Program allows students to pursue no- or low-pay career-related opportunities, including internships, volunteer work, research, and academic programs.

Gordon Career Center, Boger Hall 

Everyone—parents, families, and students—please visit the Office of Admission for a final weekend schedule (with updates and event locations), any pre-purchased meal tickets, nametags, and more.

McKelvey Room, Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

Join the Office of Study Abroad staff and students to discuss what families need to know about study abroad for Wesleyan students. Topics will include affordability and financial aid, sites and kinds of programs, credit transfer, health and safety, and the benefits of spending a semester or year studying in another country. Please come with questions.

Presenters include Emily Gorlewski, Ed.D., Director, Office of Study Abroad at the Fries Center for Global Studies.

Room 201, Fisk Hall

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Parents and families are invited to the Gordon Career Center to visit with staff.

Olson Commons, Gordon Career Center, Boger Hall

Join Assistant Vice President of Construction and Infrastructure Alan Rubacha for a walking tour of campus to highlight ongoing construction on a reimagined southeast corner of Andrus Field. At the core of this work is an extension and gut renovation of the Public Affairs Center (PAC), and a new Davison Art Center gallery building. The latter project is part of a broader effort to expand the arts as Wesleyan beyond the CFA, and make them part of an inclusive, accessible, and interdisciplinary network of buildings at the core of campus. 

Front steps of the Olin Library (rain or shine)

All are welcome to tour the IDEAS lab and take a peek at the advanced fabrication technology offered. Visit with the makerspace coordinator who will answer questions about the functioning of the lab and have a chat with an IDEAS professor to learn more about the nature of the program.
The IDEAS program is hosted and administered by the College of Integrative Sciences.

Lower level, Exley Science Center 

Join Suzy Taraba '77 MALS '10, Dietrich Family Director of Special Collections & Archives, as she discusses some of her favorite items from 25 years of working with Wesleyan’s exemplary collections. On view are materials ranging from a 13th-century manuscript to the poems of Phillis Wheatley to a contemporary artist's book.

Please note: This seminar will be limited to the first 20 arrivals.

Davison Rare Book Room, Olin Library

So how are you going to start a business with a liberal arts degree? Join WeSpark!, Wesleyan's new innovation and entrepreneurship alumni group, to learn how Wesleyan prepares students for a career in entrepreneurship. We'll hear from alumni leaders in finance and healthcare who will share their failures, successes, and learnings throughout their career.
Introduction by Makaela Kingsley ‘98, former Director of the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Matt Sorkin '15, Associate Director, Proto
Panelists:
• Jeff Grahling ’91, President and Founder, Circulo Health (healthcare)
• Cecilia Pohorille McCall ‘91, P’24, Director of Alumni & Parent Engagement, former co-founder, Rockcrest Capital, LLC
• Tom Policelli ’89, P20, ’22, Chief Executive Officer, PayMedix (healthcare)
• Breaux Walker ‘89, Managing Director, Architect Partners (crypto business development)

Room 115 Boger Hall

Advance registration through the Office of Admission is required. Register for the tour.

Meet in the lobby of the Stewart M. Reid House, Office of Admission

College of Letters Writer-in-Residence Charles Barber and Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC) President, Founder, and CEO Mark Masselli Hon'09, P'15, '16 will present their new book Peace & Health on the 50-year history of Middletown-based CHC. The CHC was founded as a free or low-cost medical and dental clinic in 1972 by college-dropout Masselli and a number of Wesleyan students, including now U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper '74, MA'80, Hon'10. After being almost shut down in the early years by the medical establishment, CHC is now the tenth largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the country, serving 150,000 Medicaid patients in Connecticut with a telehealth presence in many states nationally. In 2021, CHC created the second mass COVID-19 vaccine site in the country and has vaccinated more Connecticut residents against COVID-19 than any other health system. Barber will read from the book and Masselli will discuss the remarkable journey of the CHC.

Russell House

President Michael S. Roth ’78 will provide remarks. Immediately following the program please join us for the Homecoming + Family Weekend Kick-Off Reception. 

Beckham Hall, Fayerweather

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Passcode: 446072

Join students for lunch at Usan University Center and sample a variety of fresh, local, and made-to-order options from Bon Appetit, Wesleyan’s on-campus dining service. Enjoy salad bars, carving stations, hot entrees, numerous side dishes, beverages, and desserts. Vegetarian, vegan, and Kosher-style options are available.

Tickets: $20 adults, (Wesleyan students use their meal plans and should not buy tickets). Purchase  tickets when you register before October 21. A limited number of meals may be available on-site at the Usdan Univeristy Center cashier during dinner (second floor).  

Note: A select menu of a la carte food and beverages will also be available for purchase on-site at the Usdan Café, or you can visit one of the many restaurants in downtown Middletown.

Marketplace, Usdan University Center

Please join Wesleyan's Jewish chaplain, Rabbi David Leipziger Teva, and the Wesleyan Jewish community for Shabbat services. All are welcome. No reservations necessary.

The Bayit, 157 Church Street

Join the Wesleyan Athletics community to honor and recognize members of the 1980s All-Decade football team. Please register to purchase tickets separately for this off-campus event.

Courtyard Hartford Cromwell, 4 Sebethe Drive, Cromwell, CT 06416

Register for the 1980s All-Decade Dinner

A special Shabbat dinner is planned for all family members and friends of Wesleyan students. Together with students, faculty, and staff, we will welcome Shabbat with song, food, and our special joyful Ruach. We invite you to be a part of a memorable celebration of the Wesleyan Jewish family.

This dinner has reached capacity and there are no further avaible tickets.

Daniel Family Commons, Usdan University Center

The Ad Hoc Bach Collective, featuring Wesleyan student/faculty/staff/alumni/community members, presents their continuing series of concerts “For the Love of Bach," directed by Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Director of Private Lessons Nadya Potemkina. 
No tickets, all are welcome.

Memorial Chapel

NOPE
2022. USA. Dir: Jordan Peele. With Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya. 130 min.
In 1887, Eadweard Muybridge photographed a series of stills capturing the motion of a man on a horse. Today we recognize these stills as an early prototype of modern cinema, but oft forgotten is the man on the horse; his name remains unrecorded. NOPE imagines the lives of his descendants Otis and Emerald, their cinema-steeped lineage, and the strange phenomena haunting their horse ranch...

Admission is $5 per person.

Goldsmith Family Cinema, Jeanine Basinger Center for FILM Studies