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  • Tragedy in a Big Small Town

    Winter 2024

    Endnote

    I was cooking pasta in my Portland, Maine, apartment late on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 25, after a few hours trying to make progress on a dataset for a story on pharmacies. At 8:29...

  • 2023 Alumnae Achievement Awards

    Fall 2023

    Feature Story

    This year’s recipients of Wellesley’s highest honor are Vanessa Ruiz ’72, Faith Vilas ’73, and Cecilia Conrad ’76.

  • Kristin Butcher ’86, Marshall I. Goldman Professor of Economics in the classroom

    How to Make an Economist

    Fall 2023

    Window on Wellesley

    “Women who enroll at Wellesley are about 7 percentage points more likely to major in economics, and that’s [almost] double the chances of majoring in economics at other institutions where non-enrollees went,” says Patrick McEwan, Professor of Economics and Luella LaMer Slaner professor in Latin American Studies. The question is why.

  • Members of WAAD, Wellesley Alumnae of African Descent, at a gathering.

    Significant Connections

    Fall 2023

    WCAA

    The Alumnae Association’s Shared Identity Groups, aka SIGs, founded and led by alumnae volunteers, have been offering engagement opportunities for over a decade.

  • A photo of Laura Wood Cantopher '84 and Kathryn Harvey Mackintosh '93.

    Bringing the WCAA and the College Together

    Fall 2023

    WCAA

    The WCAA board recently proposed a change to its structure and its relationship to the College. The goal of the proposed change is to further harness the power and influence of Wellesley alumnae—on our alma mater and in the world.

  • The cover of This is So Swkward depicts a container of stick deodorant.

    Pages & Playlists

    Fall 2023

    New Works

    Recent publications by Wellesley authors

  • The cover of Beyond This Harbor: Adventurous Tales of te Heart by Rose Burgunder Styron '50 depcits and abstract sea and shoreline.

    What a Life!

    Fall 2023

    New Works

    Rose Burgunder Styron ’50 recounts a glamorous and adventurous life as a poet, activist, mother, and wife in her delightful memoir, Beyond This Harbor.

  • An illustration shows a woman opening a window shaped like an open book.

    So You Want to Write a Book

    Fall 2023

    Feature Story

    Wellesley reached out to a range of alums in publishing—from author Jasmine Guillory ’97 to agents, editors, and a bookseller—for their thoughts about the industry today and advice for getting an idea out of the notebook and into the hands of readers.

  • Mila Cuda ’22

    Poetry for All

    Fall 2023

    Class Notes: Profile

    Though she had a considerable background in poetry by age 18, Mila Cuda ’22 initially resisted the urge to major in English. A spoken word poet at home in L.A., she thought studying creative writing would be too obvious a path—but she kept finding herself in English classes.