And the Grammy Goes to…

Aaron Sheehan, a member of Wellesley’s music performance faculty, took home a 2015 Grammy for Best Opera Recording. He accepted the award alongside conductor Stephen Stubbs (left) for the Boston Early Music Festival’s recording of La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers by 17th-century composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Sheehan, who performs worldwide, sang the title role of Orphée.

“Winning the Grammy Award for Best Opera was completely unexpected,” Sheehan says. “The category was full of well-seasoned, former winners, so we definitely were the underdogs. The win is a wonderful and much deserved validation for the Boston Early Music Festival and for my own career path. I come away from this even more energized to continue to make music and art.”

Raven for Wellesley

For the second year in a row, a pair of ravens nested on one of the Science Center fire escapes. Biology professor Nick Rodenhouse says it is likely the same pair that raised a chick on campus last spring. A raven cam has provided a view of the pair as they rebuilt last year’s nest and settled down to raise a family of three nestlings, which hatched April 10–12. Little is known about the nighttime behavior of ravens, so students have been transcribing last year’s recordings with the goal of producing a paper on the nocturnal behavior of the pair.

Basketball Standout

For opponents of Blue basketball, facing Morgyne Weaver ’15 on the court was not good news. In the 100 games of her collegiate career, she scored 1,092 points and grabbed 589 rebounds. She is the fifth-highest scorer in College history (and only one of 11 to top 1,000 points) and eighth on the all-time rebound list.