Study Looks at Different Approach to Alzheimer's

An Illinois Wesleyan University professor and student are testing a drug that takes a different approach to Alzheimer's disease. Curent results show that Guanfacine may be effective at improving memory impairments.

About the Ides of March

Historically, the Ides of March was a day to settle accounts, a day when bills were due, says Jason Moralee, assistant professor of history at Illinois Wesleyan University. Today, we usually associate the day with a settling of another kind of account – the assassination of Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

Leap Year Lessons

Leap year reminds us that time is a man-made creation, says Linda French, associate professor of physics at Illinois Wesleyan University.Chalk it up to a stubborn universe that refuses to operate on Greenwich time, says French, who teaches students how time would be different if we judged it by a star other than the sun.

The Welfare Debate

The controversy over how to help poor people largely boils down to tension between the rhetoric of the "good Samaritan" and that of those who fear creating dependency and corruption, says Illinois Wesleyan University Associate Professor of Political Science Greg Shaw. In his new book, Shaw examines the history and rhetoric that have led to a stalemate in the discussion of welfare in America.

Five Books to Read Before You Die

What one book would you recommend people read before they die? That question was put to the faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. The results reveal a diverse group of authors - Fitzgerald, Woolf, Alighieri, Donne and Scarry.