• A photo shows Tenzin Yangchen ’25 sitting with her laptop.

    An Intro to Industry

    Spring 2023

    Window on Wellesley

    Sophomore economics major Tenzin Yangchen ’25 is exploring career options. “Investment banking caught my eye,” she says, but there was a lot the first-gen student didn’t know.

  • Paula Johnson

    Lessons in Community

    Spring 2023

    From the President

    “Sometimes, fundamental concepts such as connection, boundaries, respect, the gracious resolution of conflicts, and a sense of community have to be learned.”

  • Freshink

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Alzheimer’s Fantasy in the Key of G by Kirsten Critz Levy ’74 shows a hazy photo of the backs of  four children who are looking into the distance.

    Voyage into an Alzheimer’s Brain

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    Alzheimer’s Fantasy in the Key of G by Kirsten Critz Levy ’74 is no traditional medical memoir. Levy embraces past, present, and future, mixing reality and imagination, to explore the confusing nature of her mother’s illness.

  • An all-text cover of this book by Jennifer Caplan '01 reads Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials

    Jewish Courage and Comedy Across the Decades

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    The relationship between Judaism and humor has been analyzed extensively over the years, including by none other than Sigmund Freud. In the years since then, of course, Jewish humor has evolved dramatically. Just imagine what Freud would have made of Seinfeld or Broad City .

  • The cover of The Sweet Spot is an  illustration showing legs of a woman seated on the steps of a brownstone with a baby in a carrier at her side and glass of wine in front her her.

    Where Everybody Knows Your Name

    Spring 2023

    New Works

    What do you find when you cross one calculating entrepreneur, an overworked ceramist, a vengeful ex-wife, and an enterprising young woman in New York City? That would be The Sweet Spot —the eponymous bar where many paths cross in this sweet and funny look at the village it takes not only to raise a child, but also to navigate the pitfalls of success and failure.

  • A photo of the amphitheater behind Diana Chapman Walsh '66 Alumnae Hall

    Candidates for Office in the Alumnae Association

    Spring 2023

    WCAA

    The slate of officers to be elected will be presented at the annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association in May.

  • A group of the alums and Rachel Stanley, associate professor of chemistry and the Frost Associate Professor in Environmental Science at Wellesley, took advantage of the spectacular view above during an excursion to capture the moment with the Wellesley banner. Pictured are: Zehra Fazal ’05, Olivia Lillich Hilton ’83, Rachel Stanley, Rose Baghdady Ganim ’90, Aliya Khalidi ’07, Joanne Van Cor ’76, Kristina Szilagyi ’09, Erzsi Szilagyi ’04, WCAA Executive Director Kathryn Harvey Mackintosh ’03, Elizabeth Gibbs

    Wellesley Is Everywhere

    Spring 2023

    WCAA

    In January, 22 Wellesley alumnae and their guests attended what were most likely the southernmost faculty lectures ever, in Antarctica.

  • Kathryn Harvey Mackintosh ’03

    Adventure in the Unexpected

    Spring 2023

    WCAA

    “The best thing you can bring on this trip is your flexibility,” our tour manager announced on our first day together. I sat on a bus in Buenos Aires with 21 Wellesley alumnae, their guests, and Rachel Stanley, associate professor of chemistry and the Frost Associate Professor in Environmental Science at Wellesley.