• Pamela Melroy ’83 and team on trip to International Space Station in 2001

    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.

  • A photo of visitors looking at artwork by Lorraine O'Grady '55 at the opening of her retrospective show, Both/And

    Back to the Davis

    Spring 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    More than 650 visitors thronged the Davis Museum’s opening on Feb. 8 celebrating the launch of Both/And , a retrospective exhibition of the work of Lorraine O’Grady ’55.

  • President Paula Johnson

    Expanding the Humanities’ Reach

    Spring 2024

    From the President

    Earlier this year, I had the privilege of honoring groundbreaking artist Lorraine O’Grady ’55 at Wellesley’s Davis Museum, which is hosting her first major career retrospective exhibition. Lorraine’s work is a powerful example of art...

  • Letters to the Editor

    Spring 2024

    Letters to the Editor

    Building Change I was impressed with Tonja Adair’s career in architecture, which had its beginning when she majored in architecture at Wellesley ( “Design with Community in Mind,” winter 2024). When I was a sophomore...

  • Photograph of an open book, an illuminated manuscript, made in 1430

    From the Editor

    Spring 2024

    From the Editor

    The spring of my sophomore year at Wellesley, with great relief, I declared myself an English major.