Window on Wellesley

Portrait of Sheilah Shaw Horton, Wellesley’s new dean of students

Embrace, Engage, Empower

When Dean of Students Sheilah Shaw Horton looks to the future, she sees students who feel confident in their identities, are connected to each other, get enough sleep, and have a handle on their stress.More

Actaeon, 1924, Paul Manship, Bronze on marble period base, 25 5/8 in. x 31 3/4 in. by 7 7/8 in., Gift of Mary White ’79

The Sleek Shapes of Art Deco

After Paul Manship returned to New York from travels in Greece and Italy in 1912, he exhibited 96 cast bronzes made on his travels—and sold every single one. He was considered one of America’s preeminent sculptors in the period between the two world wars.More

A photo from the early days of Wellesley of students studying scientific models in College Hall.

Uncovering Science at Wellesley

There was plenty of excitement during an archaeological dig on Severance Hill last summer when Elizabeth Minor ’03, Mellon Post-Doctoral Scholar in Anthropology, and her students starting uncovering some unusual items.More

An architectural rendering of the T.T. and W.F. Chao Foundation Innovation Hub

The Science Center, Reimagined

The Science Center’s new addition will be sustainable, filled with light, and intuitive to navigate. It will promote collaboration across disciplines and have appropriately sized classrooms, more communal spaces, and better access and views to the surrounding landscape.More

Sports for Life

They are seven, some of the shining stars of Wellesley athletics through the decades. Some have competed in NCAA national championships and have garnered All-American honors. Some have taken home scholar-athlete awards and hold records in their sports. One spent 16 years building Wellesley’s athletic program into what it is today.More

From the Chair of the Wellesley College Board of Trustees

I believe what makes Wellesley great has been its ability to provide our students with an education and an experience that derive unique worth from melding learning and circumstance current to their times with timeless values particular to Wellesley.More

College Road

Dena Bodian has joined the Religious and Spiritual Life team as Jewish chaplain and campus rabbi. She comes to Wellesley from Colgate University, where she spent seven years advising the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and atheist student groups as the associate university chaplain and director of Jewish life.More

Pressing Matters of Art

The new printmaking studio where Phyllis McGibbon teaches boasts natural light, excellent ventilation, and a long, unbroken expanse of wall for displaying works in progress. Just as important, its proximity to new-media and other studios allows for collaboration.More

Look Up And Learn

Heather Corbally Bryant, lecturer in the writing program, hopes to help students put down their phones.More

Shedding Light On Clair de Lune

Gurminder Kaur Bhogal, Catherine Mills Davis Associate Professor of Music, has been teaching at Wellesley since 2006. Her book, Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune (Oxford University Press), was published this summer.More