Window on Wellesley

Spring 2019

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Michelangelo in 3-D

The students in Michelangelo: Artist and Myth, taught by Professor of Art Jacki Musacchio ’89, learned how works of art were reproduced in the Renaissance—and in today’s world, using computer scans of original Michelangelos.More

STEM Scholar

“In the black community, there’s often a stigma around getting therapy,” Shania Baldwin ’21 says, but research could help break that stigma. “Data could show people that it’s OK to seek help.”More

Lights, Camera, Learning

Cathy Ye ’19 on her semester at Cinema Sarah Lawrence on Nantucket Island, learning professional filmmaking skills, and faking it till you make it.More

All-In With Millennials

Wellesley, Bates, Carleton, Middlebury, and Williams are participating in the three-year initiative funded by the Schuler Education Foundation to learn more about the philanthropic interests and priorities of millennials and develop new strategies to engage them.More

Treating the Whole Athlete

Just because she’s a sports psychologist doesn’t mean Jessica Pfeifer Stewart sits around talking free throws all day. “Athletes are people, too,” she says. “They’re going to be presenting with a lot of the same concerns as their peer population, but I also understand and appreciate them as a unique cultural population.”More

Leaving a Legacy: Athletic Director Belgiovine to Retire

If you want to know what Bridget Belgiovine has been doing the last 13 years, look around.More

The Female Gaze

Mickalene Thomas’s recent print, Clarivel with Black Blouse with White Ribbon, relates to a larger group of collages and paintings that also depict the named subject Clarivel.More

College Road

For a week in March, the faces of trans and nonbinary students gazed down from the walls of the Jewett hallway gallery—rich, beautiful portraits captured by fellow students, captioned with names and the pronouns the subjects use.More

The Origin of (Evolving) Species

Andrea Sequeira, a professor of biological sciences, is perhaps most at home in the field, tromping up and down volcanoes or trudging through vegetation while doggedly hunting for answers to big evolutionary questions such as, “How do new species form?”More

Civility in the Politics Classroom

For decades, when Kay Lehman Schlozman ’68 teaches political parties and elections she tells her students, “We’re going to deal with political matters, and we’re going do it civilly,” she says. During her long tenure at Boston College—and her two semesters at Wellesley this year as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science—those rules have held up.More

Circle of Music, Circle of Safety

Kera Washington ’93 didn’t come to Wellesley for music—but music captured her. Washington is a music teacher in the Boston Public Schools and the director of the College’s Yanvalou Dance & Drum Ensemble. She’s also its founder.More