• A photo portrait of Natalie Mendenhall '17

    In the News

    Summer 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    Natalie Mendenhall ’17, an audio producer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, participated in the Wellesley in Washington program and credits that experience with preparing her to become the news producer she is today. “I feel really blessed to be working in journalism at this changing time … people will always need the news.”

  • A photo portrait of Stephanie Kacoyanis '05

    Cutting-Edge Contralto

    Summer 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    Stephanie Kacoyanis ’05, with her commanding contralto voice, dramatic acting style, and striking bearing, has won Boston Globe accolades for “scorching the stage” in her operatic portrayals. Reviewers describe her powerful tone as “dark,” “majestic,”...

  • A photo portrait of Ariana Hellerman '03

    Solidarity on the Q35 Bus

    Summer 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    In November 2023, New York City officials erected a tent city at Floyd Bennett Field, an out-of-use airport facility in Brooklyn. Some 2,000 asylum seekers, all families with children, were settled there to face the winter ahead. “This is my backyard,” says Ariana Hellerman ’03. She decided to help.

  • A photo portrait of Meg Browne '79

    A Memorial at Long Last

    Summer 2024

    Class Notes: Profile

    In 1911, a fire broke out on an upper floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in lower Manhattan, killing 146 workers, most of them immigrant women. It was one of the worst workplace disasters in United States history. More than 100 years later, Meg Browne ’79 helped establish a memorial to the victims.

  • Alumnae Memorials

    Summer 2024

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Tributes to Wellesley alumnae by family and friends

  • A photo of a black lab sitting on a sofa by a curtained window

    Picture Ahead

    Summer 2024

    Endnote

    At 24, it seems like a lot of overt “Picture Ahead!” signs are right behind me. Like a road trip, college has a beginning and a destination. After has a beginning, too. But then it’s a series of vaguely defined experiences that make me feel like a tourist taking a photo I could get a better version of on a postcard.

  • Letters to the Editor

    Summer 2024

    Letters to the Editor

    AI and Human Rights I was glad to read the recent article on AI (“ AI’s Unanswered Questions ,” winter 2024) and to know that students are gaining practical experience analyzing and building AI tools...

  • Photograph of a copy of Wellesley News from Sept. 27, 1995. Headlines read "Wellesley women discuss their experiences at Beijing" and "College community responds to proposed changes to curriculum."

    From the Editor

    Summer 2024

    From the Editor

    Since I graduated 25 years ago, some of the details of being a student have changed (cell phones instead of landlines, Sidechat instead of Public, Lulu instead of Schneider), but the intrinsic Wellesleyness of Wellesley has not changed.

  • Pages & Playlists

    Spring 2024

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors