• A photo shows Susan Reno Myers '74 embracing a giraffe.

    Sticking Her Neck Out for Giraffes

    Spring 2022

    Class Notes: Profile

    Susan Reno Myers ’74 brings unique energy to everything she does, whether it’s international finance, high school football coaching, or saving endangered giraffes.

  • Wellesley’s taxidermy passenger pigeon will be on display in the Science Complex.

    From the Editor

    Spring 2022

    From the Editor

    When I arrived at Wellesley in 1995, I was pre-med, which my friends find hard to believe now. My interest had more to do with my enthusiasm for the early years of the NBC drama E.R. —which I watched with many other Freemanites in our head of house’s apartment every Thursday—than with any aptitude for medicine.

  • Chipo Dendere

    Africa Illuminated

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    “The one thing I hear most from students is this idea that you can learn about Africa for the sake of learning about Africa, and not because it’s tangential to something else,” says Chipo Dendere, assistant professor of Africana studies.

  • Stacie Goddard

    A Pivotal Moment for Political Science

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Stacie Goddard, the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science and the faculty director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, studies great power politics and international security, including why and how states engage in war.

  • The great blue heron named George enjoys the sun on Wellesley's campus

    College Road

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    A great blue heron named George, Picturing Pompeii at the Davis, and the class of ’21 outcomes

  • Alexa Gross ’22

    Unraveling Family Ties

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Alexa Gross ’22 has moved between two worlds at Wellesley. In one, she’s majoring in neuroscience, focusing on mental health and emotions. In the other, she’s majoring in studio art, producing prints and photographs. But what seems at first like a double life is actually something more connected.

  • Wellesley College logo and Asian University for Women logo

    Support for Afghan Women’s Education

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    In January, President Johnson hosted a virtual roundtable attended by leaders in higher education, business, and government to generate ideas for supporting Afghan women’s education and empowerment, in collaboration with the Asian University for Women.

  • Ann Zhao ’24

    A Novel Approach

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Ann Zhao ’24 is cognitive and linguistic sciences major, DJs a WZLY show, writes for the Wellesley News— and just sold her first novel, Dear Wendy, to the Feiwel & Friends imprint of Macmillan.

  • Pashtana Durrani

    In Exile, but Undaunted

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Before last summer, human rights activist Pashtana Durrani lived in Kandahar, working as executive director of LEARN Afghanistan, a nonprofit she founded in 2018 to expand educational opportunities in the country. All that changed when the Taliban regained power in August.