• Photo of a fragment of a Japanese bell

    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.

  • Photo of Marisa Jaffe

    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.

  • An illustration depicts a woman seated at a computer looking out at a beautiful landscape.

    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.

  • A collage of an open book with various images coming out of it: a Wellesley lamppost, a Black hand with a ballot, a baby with an arm oustretched, a strand of DNA

    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.

  • Photo of Erin Corcoran

    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.

  • Photo of Pier Rogers

    Rogers Named Alumnae Trustee

    SPRING 2025

    WCAA

    Following her nomination by the Wellesley College Alumnae Association Board, the Wellesley College Board of Trustees has elected Pier Rogers ’75 to serve a six-year term as alumnae trustee from 2025 to 2031, succeeding Suzanne Frey ’93.

  • Photo of President Paula A. Johnson standing outside Green Hall

    Protecting Wellesley’s Promise

    SPRING 2025

    From the President

    “Our endowment allows the Wellesley community to be socioeconomically diverse and makes us a place where students can discover, in the words of our second president, Alice Freeman Palmer, ‘the wealth that lies in differences.’”

  • Illustration of two Black students in a cozy dorm room, talking while sitting on beds with matching bedspreads

    Strangers in a Small Room

    SPRING 2025

    Feature Story

    We explore the paths from first-year roommates to lifelong friends through the stories of alum roomies across the decades.