Student Life

Lynne Viti and her Calderwood seminar students

Spring 2018

Writing for Real

By Catherine O’Neill Grace

The Calderwoods, as they’re known on campus, focus on writing for the “real world” rather than the academic one. The aim is for students (primarily seniors) to learn to translate complex arguments and professional jargon for a broad audience.More

Sidikha Ashraf '18 poses in front of a London telephone box

Spring 2018

A London View of South Asia

Sidikha Ashraf ’19 found that her time at King’s College in London helped her better understand her South Asian American identity.More

Spring 2018

Resilience And Resolve

By Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99

Looking back on her first semester at Wellesley after leaving Kenya, Sarah Nzau ’18 says if she could go back and talk to herself, she’d say, “It’s going to be hard, but then, you are going to be more resilient than you realize.”More

Emily Pearson ’20, Olivia Postel ’21, Dayna De La Cruz ’21, and Saanthia Vivekanand Bulchandani ’21

Spring 2018

How I Got to Wellesley

By Catherine O’Neill Grace
Photographs by Kathleen Dooher

As these students’ stories attest, a diversity of paths leads to Wellesley—a grandmother’s memory, a website visit, a college-fair encounter, a high-school counselor’s advice, an alumna’s encouragement, even a simple Google search.More

An illustration depicts an old-fashioned pen morphing into a pattern of digital pages.

Winter 2018

Humanities, Meet Technology

By Catherine O’Neill Grace
Illustration by Jamie Cullen

Whether you call it digital scholarship, digital humanities, or blended learning, access to and the use of a range of technologies is changing scholarship and breaking down walls that separate academic disciplines.More

Yona Levin ’18, Tashay Campbell ’18, and Anna Hunter ’19 pose by the student mailboxes in the Lulu

Winter 2018

Tanner 2017: Wellesley in the World

An editorial intern at a literary agency, an intern at the New York County District Attorney’s Office, and a reporter at the ABC News Beijing bureau… these are three of the students who spoke at this year’s Tanner Conference.More

Winter 2018

Resilience. Resolve. Balance.

By Paula A. Johnson, president

For young women especially, the relationships between health and success, growth and happiness, are vitally important, carrying profound consequences. It is critical that we are prepared to meet the needs of the students who come to us.More

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

Fall 2017

Dean About Campus

By Alice M. Hummer

The highest priority for Sheilah Shaw Horton, Wellesley’s new dean of students, is getting to know the Wellesley community. So far, she’s been very impressed with how supportive students are of one another.More