Student Life
Spring 2023
Tekla Carlén ’24, a medieval and renaissance studies and French major, spent her junior year in France through the College’s Wellesley-in-Aix program. “I chose this program because I wanted a language immersion program and to be able to take classes at a French university alongside French students,” she says.More
Spring 2023
Sophomore economics major Tenzin Yangchen ’25 is exploring career options. “Investment banking caught my eye,” she says, but there was a lot the first-gen student didn’t know.More
Spring 2023
“Sometimes, fundamental concepts such as connection, boundaries, respect, the gracious resolution of conflicts, and a sense of community have to be learned.”More
Spring 2023
I could point out the shy glances across the room that signaled a match in the making. Knew the right words to send in a text to make one sound both aloof and interested. In my mind’s eye, I was a coach of sorts. A coach with no real-life experience.More
Winter 2023
Launching the Class of 2022.5 In December 2022, 62 students celebrated their final semester at Wellesley at a festive gathering in the Alumnae Hall Ballroom. Melissa Jo Zambrana ’15, assistant director of alumnae engagement, welcomed…More
Winter 2023
Wellesley is well known as an excellent liberal arts college—but also as a decadent chocolate cake.More
Winter 2023
“My biggest shock was seeing the amount of Venezuelans that reside in Buenos Aires and how they have built solid communities and organizations. It has been an awesome part of this trip I was not expecting, but I have gotten to connect to my own roots.”More
Winter 2023
Wellesley’s new Anne Shen Chao ’74 Office of Student Success is focused on the development of the whole person, and this requires collaboration across the entire College.More
Winter 2023
Just before the curtains closed on the fall 2022 semester, the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre in Alumnae Hall was transformed into the colorful Kit Kat Club of Weimar Berlin for the musical Cabaret.More
Fall 2022
A few years into teaching her constantly oversubscribed course on culture and mental illness, Holly Walters, a visiting lecturer in anthropology, noticed something interesting about the students in the class. “I started to realize that the mix of the student body that I was getting was much more diverse than just anthropology majors,” she says.More