For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.More
The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and…More
Wellesley faces, known and less known, from the magazine’s archives. We’ll be adding to this periodically. If there’s a face you’d like to see here, send us a suggestion. Most photos by Richard Howard.
Associate Professor of Economics Akila Weerapana
Flick Coleman, professor emeritus of chemistry
Professor of Astronomy Wendy Hagen Bauer
Class deans, 2011
Diana Chapman Walsh ’66, president emerita
Provost Andy Shennan
Associate Provost Robbin Chapman
Bob Allen and Roth Schmidgall, College groundskeepers
Layli Maparyan, executive director, Wellesley Centers for Women
Assistant Professor of English Sarah Wall-Randall ’97
Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28
President H. Kim Bottomly and Kimberly Dozier ’89
Professors of Economics Kristin Butcher ’86 and Marshall Goldman
Susan Lohin of the alumnae office
Longtime Professor of Physics Phyllis Fleming
Math Department, 2011
Adam Van Arsdale, assistant professor of anthropology
David Hawkins, associate professor of geosciences
Brett Dahaner, assistant professor of economics
Neuroscience faculty, 2012
Professor of Economics Dan Sichel
Don Leach, associate director of residence life
Angela Carpenter CE/DS ’99, assistant professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences
Jay Turner, associate professor of environmental sciences
Susan Reverby, professor of women's and gender studies
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