• A photo of Founders Hall and a white rhodendron.

    Candidates for Office in the Alumnae Association

    Spring 2024

    WCAA

    Presenting the slate of candidtes to be elected at the annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association on Saturday, May 25, in Diana Chapman Walsh ’66 Alumnae Hall.

  • A photo of Laura Wood Cantopher ’84

    Looking Back and Looking Forward

    Spring 2024

    WCAA

    Laura Wood Cantopher ’84 reflects on her three years as president of the WCAA during a time of transition and excitment about the future.

  • Understanding the Clean Energy Transition

    Spring 2024

    Feature Story

    A t the end of 2023, a new electric power system quietly came online in Hawai‘i. Unlike its predecessors, this system doesn’t run on coal, natural gas, or fossil fuels of any kind. The Kapolei...

  • An illustration depicts a student reclining on a pile of symbols of education, incuding a book, a beaker, a pencil, and a triangle.

    What’s Your Major?

    Spring 2024

    Feature Story

    Sometimes, making a decision about what to major in at Wellesley is the art of the unexpected. Take Erika Liu ’15, who double majored in peace and justice studies and French cultural studies. She...

  • Photo of Pam Melroy speaking at a podium

    Charting a New Course for NASA

    Spring 2024

    Feature Story

    A hunk of metal—technically, part of a hold-down stud frangible nut—from mission STS-120 is affixed to a plaque in the office of retired U.S. Air Force Col. Pam Melroy ’83 at NASA headquarters. During the...

  • Rethinking the Renaissance

    Spring 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    The popular course ENG/HIST 221: The Renaissance interrogates the idea of the thing that historians and literary scholars have called the Renaissance.

  • Portrait of Courtney Coile

    College Road

    Spring 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    Courtney C. Coile, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics at Wellesley, will be the College’s next provost and Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 Dean of the College, succeeding Andrew Shennan.

  • A photograph of Untitled (Bronze)

    In the Abstract

    Spring 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    The Davis Museum is fortunate to have Untitled (Bronze), an outstanding work by Dyani White Hawk.

  • A photo portrait of Samara Pearlstein in the Jewett Art Gallery

    Drawing on Experience

    Spring 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    Samara Pearlstein touches a “little bit of almost every part” of the Wellesley College Art Department. She is the program coordinator for the department, the building manager for the Jewett Arts Center and Pendleton West, and a drawing instructor for the studio program in the summer. She is also the gallery director for Jewett Art Gallery.