Spring 2024

A t the end of 2023, a new electric power system quietly came online in Hawai‘i. Unlike its predecessors, this system doesn’t run on coal, natural gas, or fossil fuels of any kind. The Kapolei...

Sometimes, making a decision about what to major in at Wellesley is the art of the unexpected. Take Erika Liu ’15, who double majored in peace and justice studies and French cultural studies. She...

A hunk of metal—technically, part of a hold-down stud frangible nut—from mission STS-120 is affixed to a plaque in the office of retired U.S. Air Force Col. Pam Melroy ’83 at NASA headquarters. During the...

Recent publications by Wellesley authors

Thumbnail reviews of new publications from the Wellesley community

Fatimah Gilliam, an Ivy-educated attorney who is CEO of her own diversity consulting group, aims her new book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, at people she thinks can change the way race is viewed and treated in this country.

The Wellesley Widows, the College’s oldest a cappella group (and one of the oldest in the country), celebrated its 75th anniversary with an on-​campus reunion weekend in March.

Presenting the slate of candidtes to be elected at the annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association on Saturday, May 25, in Diana Chapman Walsh ’66 Alumnae Hall.

Laura Wood Cantopher ’84 reflects on her three years as president of the WCAA during a time of transition and excitment about the future.

The popular course ENG/HIST 221: The Renaissance interrogates the idea of the thing that historians and literary scholars have called the Renaissance.

Courtney C. Coile, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics at Wellesley, will be the College’s next provost and Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 Dean of the College, succeeding Andrew Shennan.

The Davis Museum is fortunate to have Untitled (Bronze), an outstanding work by Dyani White Hawk.

Samara Pearlstein touches a “little bit of almost every part” of the Wellesley College Art Department. She is the program coordinator for the department, the building manager for the Jewett Arts Center and Pendleton West, and a drawing instructor for the studio program in the summer. She is also the gallery director for Jewett Art Gallery.

More than 650 visitors thronged the Davis Museum’s opening on Feb. 8 celebrating the launch of Both/And , a retrospective exhibition of the work of Lorraine O’Grady ’55.

Earlier this year, I had the privilege of honoring groundbreaking artist Lorraine O’Grady ’55 at Wellesley’s Davis Museum, which is hosting her first major career retrospective exhibition. Lorraine’s work is a powerful example of art...

Building Change I was impressed with Tonja Adair’s career in architecture, which had its beginning when she majored in architecture at Wellesley ( “Design with Community in Mind,” winter 2024). When I was a sophomore...

The spring of my sophomore year at Wellesley, with great relief, I declared myself an English major.

Tributes to Wellesley alumnae by family and friends

Camilla “Mia” Chandler Frost ’47, Wellesley College trustee emerita, passed away at the age of 98 on Feb. 7.

A beloved member of the Wellesley community, Joy Renjilian-Burgy, associate professor emerita of Spanish, died on Jan. 14 at the age of 81.

A successful working artist in New York, Juyon Lee ’18 credits the film classes she took with Prof. Eve Zimmerman for her Japanese minor and a first-year drawing class with professor of art Daniela Rivera with leading her where she is now.

Kat Craddock ’05 recalls having Saveur , the food and travel magazine, in her childhood home as early as 1994. In April 2023, she announced her acquisition of the publication. More exciting news followed: Kat announced that Saveur ’s print magazine would return.

When Savides Happel ’05 learned that her children’s bus route in suburban Howard County, Md., had been eliminated as part of the district’s adjustment of school walk zones, she got busy.

Amy Aparicio Clark ’92 is lead director in CVS Health’s philanthropy division, where she has developed grants portfolios addressing disparities in maternal health outcomes between white and Black women, and youth experiencing mental health challenges.

Super-recognizers are able to identify people, often out of context, even if they haven’t seen them for 10, 20, or even 30 years. Some uber-super-recognizers can recognize a face after having seen it only once, or when seeing only part of a face. Carolyn Kott Washburne ’65 says she’s good, but not that good.