• An Artist Comes Home

    Winter 2024

    Feature Story

    Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And —the first retrospective of the acclaimed conceptual artist, cultural critic, and Wellesley ’55 alumna—is the debut exhibition at the newly reopened Davis Museum.

  • Andrea Sequeira, Gordon P. Lang and Althea P. Lang ’26 Professor of Biological Sciences, and Martina Königer, adjunct assistant professor of biological sciences, near some

    Reed All About It

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    “The big, ambitious question is to try to understand the fundamental traits related to invasion success. But our more specific, tangible goal was to understand what varieties of phragmites are present on campus.”

  • Photo of Hillary Rodham Clinton ’69

    College Road

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    Democracy summit to be held in April; Wellesley to stay test optional for up to five years; free laundry; the College welcomes robot overlords; Todd Nordgren is the new director of LGBTQ+ programs and service

  • Come to the Table

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    Founded in 1904 in College Hall, is student-operated café located in the basement of Founders Hall, serving coffee, pastries, and a variety of cleverly named sandwiches.

  • Yoon Sun Lee, Anne Pierce Rogers Professor in American Literature, professor of English; Dan Chiasson, Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English; Martha McNamara, senior lecturer in art; Cord Whitaker, associate professor of English; and Eve Zimmerman, professor of Japanese

    Humanities Reimagined

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    In January, the Mellon Foundation announced that it has awarded Wellesley $1.5 million for its proposal, “Transforming Stories, Spaces, Lives: Rethinking Inclusion and Exclusion through the Humanities.”

  • Illustration of a tree made of circles that call to mind the Earth

    World Building

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    In November, President Paula A. Johnson announced updates on initiatives enabled by the $50 million joint gift from Lulu Chow Wang ’66 and Susan L. Wagner ’82, the largest in the College’s history, as part...

  • Photograph of Kristine Meader ’21 among the trees on campus, wearing a down jacket and red knit cap, using binoculars to look for birds

    Avian Adventure

    Winter 2024

    Window on Wellesley

    Kristine Meader ’21, a postbaccalaureate fellow with Wellesley’s Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative, enjoyed Friday morning campus bird walks this fall.

  • President Paula Johnson

    The Proof and Power of Our Alumnae

    Winter 2024

    From the President

    We want to integrate the WCAA into the College in a way that will give alumnae greater representation within College leadership, deepen partnerships between them and the College, and create new opportunities for collaboration.

  • Illustration of a tree on a blue background with an incomplete rendering of a sapling growing in front of it

    AI’s Unanswered Questions

    Winter 2024

    Feature Story

    Wellesley faculty and alumnae are on the forefront of shaping how we coexist with AI—a space that has quickly become ripe for innovation, regulation, and deep thinking on ethics.