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  • A photo portrait of Paul Fisher

    Portrait of the Artist as Enigma

    Fall 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Professor of American Studies Paul Fisher has spent the last decade in the company of artist John Singer Sargent and his circle. His new biography, The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World , was just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

  • The cover of Jet magazine from Sept. 15, 1955

    Black History in Your Hands

    Fall 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Through the efforts of Brenna Greer, associate professor of history, and Ruth Rogers, curator of special collections, the College has acquired a significant collection of 1950s Jet magazines covering the murder of Emmett Till and its aftermath.

  • Courtney Streett ’09 speaks in the Edible Ecosystem Teaching Garden.

    Climate Justice in Action

    Fall 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    In September, the Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment hosted the 2022 Project Handprint Symposium, which focused on the theme of health and environmental justice.

  • A photo shows, from left: Charlotte Howard, President Paula A. Johnson, Hillary Rodham Clinton ’69, Jennifer Hyman, Ann Mukherjee, and Andrea Jung

    A Critical Moment for Women

    Fall 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    In June, Wellesley sponsored a virtual event, “Building the new SHEconomy,” presented by Economist Impact.

  • We Belong in STEM

    Fall 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    “Wellesley College is proud of our record educating the highest numbers of women who go on to receive Ph.D.s in STEM fields among our liberal arts peers,” said President Paula A. Johnson at the official...

  • The cover of Mother Daughter Traitor Spy shows a painting of a woman in a black hat and black dress, her face partially hidden.

    Called to Spycraft

    Fall 2022

    New Works

    In Mother Daughter Traitor Spy , the first stand-alone novel from Susan Elia MacNeal ’91, author of the bestselling Maggie Hope series, readers get a cracking-good spy story told from a new perspective.

  • The cover of Good Grief depicts portraits of a pet bird, gerbil, cat, tortoise, fish and dog, each in a gold frame.

    A Poignant View of Lost Pets

    Fall 2022

    New Works

    Anyone who has ever loved and lost a pet will find comfort in Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter by E.B. Bartels ’10.

  • The cover of the summer 2022 issue of Wellesley magazine shows a photo portrait of Madeleine Korbel Albright '59

    Letters to the Editor

    Fall 2022

    Letters to the Editor

    Remembering Madeleine Meaningful read (“ The Negotiator ,” summer 2022). Secretary Albright was one of the most influential in our time. Thank you. Rosarie Jastrow Hartmeyer ’76, Moraga, Calif. Live Fearlessly Wonderful story on Madeleine...

  • A photo shows a bee walking into an extraction tube at one of the Wellesley hives.

    Plan Bee

    Fall 2022

    Feature Story

    The world needs researchers like Heather Mattila, professor of biological sciences at Wellesley, because bees, both domesticated and wild, are in danger.