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    From The Editor

    SUMMER 2025

    From the Editor

    It’s a common impulse to leave your mark in places meaningful to you, and at Wellesley, it’s a joy to come across these reminders of former students—especially those near and dear to my heart, like Akasha and Grace.

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    A Historian Faces the Music

    SUMMER 2025

    Endnote

    Historians' obsession with facts can make it difficult to enjoy even the most engaging historical fiction, like the dazzling Broadway show Suffs.

  • Photograph of a female electrician at work in Clapp Library, which is under construction

    Clapp’s Next Edition

    SPRING 2025

    Window on Wellesley

    When the Clapp Library renovation was originally planned in 2022, it was conceived as a critical repairs project. But as the project unfolded, it became clear that Clapp’s future could be even brighter than initially envisioned.

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    Saved by the (Dinner) Bell

    SPRING 2025

    Window on Wellesley

    The College Archives includes fragments of the Japanese bell that was used as a fire alarm in College Hall, alerting residents to the 1914 fire.

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    College Road

    SPRING 2025

    Window on Wellesley

    Reports from Around Campus

  • Illuminating an American Artist in Florence

    SPRING 2025

    Window on Wellesley

    Professor of Art Jacqueline Marie Musacchio ’89 talks about the artist Francesca Alexander and her circle as if they were her own friends. It is a familiarity born out of years of research, culminating with her book The Art and Life of Francesca Alexander 1837–1917, published in February by Lund Humphries.

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    The Third Phase

    SPRING 2025

    Feature Story

    Around the world, people are retiring later. How do you decide when it’s time? And what comes next? We talked to Wellesley experts to find out what they are thinking.

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    Professors in Print

    SPRING 2025

    Feature Story

    From how to fix democracy with math to what twins teach us about improving humanity, Wellesley professors are tackling timely topics in recent books.

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    Corcoran Named WCAA Assistant Vice President

    SPRING 2025

    WCAA

    Erin Corcoran ’13, a longtime volunteer for the College, left her career in public service at the Pentagon to return to Wellesley as assistant vice president of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association.