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  • An illustration on the cover of RACE RULES depicts a Black person whispering behind her hand.

    Race Matters

    Spring 2024

    New Works

    Fatimah Gilliam, an Ivy-educated attorney who is CEO of her own diversity consulting group, aims her new book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, at people she thinks can change the way race is viewed and treated in this country.

  • Understanding the Clean Energy Transition

    Spring 2024

    Feature Story

    A t the end of 2023, a new electric power system quietly came online in Hawai‘i. Unlike its predecessors, this system doesn’t run on coal, natural gas, or fossil fuels of any kind. The Kapolei...

  • Photo of Pam Melroy speaking at a podium

    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.

  • 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.

  • A photo portrait of Camilla “Mia” Chandler Frost ’47

    Camilla “Mia” Chandler Frost ’47

    Spring 2024

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Camilla “Mia” Chandler Frost ’47, Wellesley College trustee emerita, passed away at the age of 98 on Feb. 7.

  • A photo of Prof. Joy Renjilian-Burgy

    Joy Renjilian-Burgy

    Spring 2024

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    A beloved member of the Wellesley community, Joy Renjilian-Burgy, associate professor emerita of Spanish, died on Jan. 14 at the age of 81.