Articles

My friends, and some of my professors, even, are not on campus with me anymore. But the trees are.

Thanks to Shreeya Lakkapragada ’26 and collaborators across campus, as of this summer, Wellesley has two new swings.

It’s incumbent upon college campuses to provide what I see as a powerful antidote to polarization: pluralism, and the dialogue and diversity of ideas that come with it.

Bringing the World to Wellesley I was excited to read about April’s summit, Renewing Democracy: Women Leading the Way ( “Citizenship in Action,” summer 2024), because I was reminded of Miss Ball’s Symposium on Africa...

When I was in sixth grade, my family moved from Harvard, Mass., to Colorado Springs, Colo. Our new house was on a ridge with a view of Pikes Peak, which famously inspired Katharine Lee Bates,...

Tributes to Wellesley alumnae by family and friends

The “Boston gentlemen” have played a key role throughout Wellesley’s history. Henry Durant, the Hunnewells, the Kidders, the Stones, and others were the movers and shakers downtown who brought their time and talent to Wellesley to build and strengthen the world’s exceptional college for the education of women. Nelson J. Darling, Jr., was one of those gentlemen.

For almost a decade, Sara Simon ’13 built a career as a data journalist, with positions at the New York Times , Vermont Public Radio, and Spotlight PA, an investigate newsroom covering Pennsylvania. But this fall, she began a Ph.D. in history at Northwestern University.

Charlotte Ashamu ’01 began her career working in global economic development before moving into the cultural heritage realm. She is now the director of international programs at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at Yale University. Her big push in this new role has been to launch the Yale Directors Forum, a global fellowship that provides training for leaders at African cultural heritage institutions.