The Global Flora Conservatory at the Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouses, it steel frame clad in high-tech plastic, rides the curve of the ridge outside the Science Center and soars to 40 feet at its southwest… More
This year’s Alumnae Achievement Awards go to Carol Remmer Angle ’48, a pediatrician and toxicology expert, and Diane Rowland ’70, a health-policy expert and advocate for health care for disadvantaged populations. More
Ellice Patterson ’16 created Abilities Dance Boston, a company that is welcoming of people of all physical and mental abilities. She aims to create a better understanding of disability culture, and allow the company’s dancers… More
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- We received an update today from Marian, aka “Bogie,” class of ’43, who at 97 says, “Gotta travel while you’re youn… https://t.co/uRTXWbSPcN
- RT @Wellesley: At today’s Climate Action Rally led by Renew Wellesley, dozens of @Wellesley student activists, faculty, staff, and… https://t.co/WD68r9NwFS
- RT @Wellesley: Nora Ephron ’62 described Ali MacGraw ’60, the Academy Award-nominated actress, “as a divine person who, in additio… https://t.co/nsrHT0H4bl
To honor the 50th anniversary of the Alumnae Achievement Awards, what if we just let their achievements inspire us to make an impact wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, and stop using them as a yardstick to measure our own supposed shortcomings?More
Window on Wellesley
This fall, the L-wing in the Science Center opened after a year of renovations. Among the new additions are a spacious data lounge, improved teaching labs and faculty labs, new active-learning classrooms, and plenty of common spaces for collaborating and relaxing.More
The College is building a new Science Center, renovating residential halls that have significant needs, and looking at how to become carbon neutral by 2040. Meet the man with the plan, Dave Chakraborty, assistant vice president of facilities management and planning.More
On the cover of Brenna Greer’s recent book, Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship , a fashionably dressed young African-American couple relax on a midcentury modern couch in front of a coffee…More
John Cameron, professor emeritus of biology, has cataloged some 1,600 objects from labs past. As Wellesley looks to the future of science on campus, Cameron showed us some of his favorite items from its past.More
WCAA
In the weeks before I started this job, I received two gifts from two important women in my life—one a childhood (and then Wellesley) friend, and one a professional mentor. My new coffee mug and my new insulated stemless wine glass are emblazoned with the same message: “You’ve got this.”More
Shivani Kuckreja ’16 is the young alumnae director on the WCAA Board of Directors, where she amplifies the young alum perspective.More
Astronaut Pamela Melroy ’83 joined conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for a musical look back at the summer of ’69.More
Shelf Life
Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love hones in on the life-changing experience of becoming your parents’ parent when they can no longer care for themselves.More
Amy Chu ’89 has published her second middle-grade graphic novel, Sea Sirens , inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Sea Fairies .More
End Note
The two of us were an unlikely pair: Renee was an 80-something, British-born widow who had been uprooted from her retirement community in Florida to join her son and his wife in Poland. I was a 22-year-old American completing an international fellowship working with Polish Holocaust survivors.More