• 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.

  • Jessica Wegner ’22 swimming the backstroke

    Back in the Swim of Things

    Spring 2022

    Window on Wellesley

    Swimmer Jessica Wegner ’22 came back to Wellesley in the fall of 2021, almost a full year and a half since she was last on campus. But the pause in her swim team career doesn’t seem to have held her back.

  • Paula Johnson

    A Seat at the Table

    Spring 2022

    From the President

    One of the great lessons I took from my career in academic medicine and public health is that when you are trying to solve large problems, it really matters who is around the table. If...

  • Candidates for Office in the Alumnae Association

    Spring 2022

    WCAA

    To be elected at the 142nd annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, which will convene at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 4, in Diana Chapman Walsh ’66 Alumnae Hall. Director, 2022–24 Briana Marisa...

  • A photo portrait of Dolores Arredondo ’95

    Candidate for Alumnae Trustee, 2022–28

    Spring 2022

    WCAA

    Dolores Arredondo ’95 has been nominated to serve a six-year term as alumnae trustee, from 2022 to 2028, succeeding Alvia Wardlaw ’69.

  • Kathryn Harvey Mackintosh ’03 poses outside Pendleton West

    Tradition and Transition

    Spring 2022

    WCAA

    As we chart our way into “the new normal,” I think a lot about the challenge to balance what we hold dear about our alma mater with a living, breathing institution that continues to evolve and thrive in a rapidly changing world.

  • Sarah Frances Whiting examines the bones in her hand using a fluoroscope in Wellesley’s physics laboratory in 1896. A Crookes tube is on the table in front of her.

    Artifacts Of Experiments Past

    Spring 2022

    Feature Story

    One night in 2019, packing up to move out of Sage Hall before its demolition, John Cameron, now professor emeritus of biological sciences, found a box labeled as containing film, But it held something unique. And historic—15 cyanotype prints from some of the first X-ray experiments done in the U.S.