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A distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Deborah Chung ’74 developed a building product called “smart concrete.”
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On the last Saturday of each month, Jennie Gerard ’66 joins the Lake Merritt Weed Warriors, an all-volunteer band of gardeners she co-founded, to supplement public works staff by tackling much-needed weeding, planting, and mulching in the urban oasis in Oakland, Calif.
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At our 1973 commencement, 426 seniors listened as Shirley Chisholm wove her hard-fought “firsts” into a message for us about activism, laced with bold truths. That day, her powerful words propelled me into our generation’s revolutionary times. How would I live up to her charge?
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Stephanie Hsieh ’89, the new president of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, jokes that her path to the College was “the happiest accident of my life.”
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Stephanie Kacoyanis ’05, with her commanding contralto voice, dramatic acting style, and striking bearing, has won Boston Globe accolades for “scorching the stage” in her operatic portrayals. Reviewers describe her powerful tone as “dark,” “majestic,”...
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In 1911, a fire broke out on an upper floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in lower Manhattan, killing 146 workers, most of them immigrant women. It was one of the worst workplace disasters in United States history. More than 100 years later, Meg Browne ’79 helped establish a memorial to the victims.
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At 24, it seems like a lot of overt “Picture Ahead!” signs are right behind me. Like a road trip, college has a beginning and a destination. After has a beginning, too. But then it’s a series of vaguely defined experiences that make me feel like a tourist taking a photo I could get a better version of on a postcard.
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Since I graduated 25 years ago, some of the details of being a student have changed (cell phones instead of landlines, Sidechat instead of Public, Lulu instead of Schneider), but the intrinsic Wellesleyness of Wellesley has not changed.
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