• Annie Jump Cannon looks through a telescope outside College Hall.

    A Few of Our Firsts

    FALL 2025

    Feature Story

    Astronomers, journalists, artists, lawyers, filmmakers, civil servants—Wellesley alumnae have broken barriers in countless fields.

  • Harriet Creighton ’29, the Ruby F. H. Farwell Professor of Botany, teaches a class in 1973

    Faculty, Research, and the Curriculum

    FALL 2025

    Feature Story

    Leaders in their fields and deeply committed teachers, Wellesley’s faculty have shaped generations of students and the College itself.

  • Photograph of Wellesley students dressed as lightning bolts at Tree Day in 1932

    Test Your Knowledge of Wellesley Traditions

    FALL 2025

    Feature Story

    How well do you know Wellesley’s traditions, current and defuct? Take our quiz!

  • Jocelyn Benson

    Jocelyn Benson ’99

    SUMMER 2025

    Alumnae Achievement Awards

    At Wellesley, Jocelyn Benson ’99 says, she learned the importance of women having each other’s backs. It’s the kind of support she has given and received in the past several years as Michigan’s secretary of state.

  • Photo of Sue Wagner

    Sue Wagner ’82

    SUMMER 2025

    Alumnae Achievement Awards

    Sue Wagner ’82 was just 26 when she took a life-changing risk: She left a stable Wall Street job as a vice president at major investment bank Lehman Brothers to co-found BlackRock.

  • Photograph of Karen Grigsby Bates ’73

    Karen Grigsby Bates ’73

    SUMMER 2025

    Alumnae Achievement Awards

    In 2011, Karen Grigsby Bates ’73 traveled to Orlando, Fla., microphone in hand, and did what she does best: She listened carefully, then masterfully shared a story.

  • Illustration of a lightning bolt hitting Galen Stone Tower in Green Hall while two students looking on from Severance Hill wearing raincoats and carrying umbrellas are awed.

    The Stuff of Legend

    SUMMER 2025

    Feature Story

    As the College enters its sesquicentennial year, E.B. Bartels ’10 got to the bottom of some of Wellesley's most famous lore.

  • Photo of Eunice Zhang ’27 in one of the Gothic stairways outside Founders Hall

    More Than Words

    SUMMER 2025

    Feature Story

    In the College’s new Narrative Lab, students look deeply into how narratives are constructed and the ways they create meaning.

  • Illustration of a small house divided into four panels; in the first, it is intact on a sunny day; in the next section, it is in flames; in the third, it is a charred skeletal remains; in the fourth it is under construction.

    When your home burns down

    SUMMER 2025

    Feature Story

    After losing her Altadena home to wildfire, Lynn Sternberger ’07 reflects on loss, accountability, and what it means to rebuild a community.