The students in THST345 Practicum: Theatre Production had some help mounting the fall mainstage production, The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, in November 2024. The show was a special collaboration with Soonchunhyang University in South Korea. As part of a theatrical exchange, students from South Korea joined the Wellesley cast. Soonchunhyang’s actors incorporated song and dance into the play, dressed in traditional Korean hanboks (see photo). In January, the Wellesley students traveled to South Korea to mount the production there.
"There is a high amount of political engagement and interest across the campus. There is broad knowledge about politics by all Wellesley students, not just the political science majors.”
Firefly Sparkle from the Edge of Time
Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 dis-tinct star clusters that formed at different times, much like our own Milky Way. Cocooned in a diffuse arc, and resembling fireflies dancing on a summer night, the newly discovered galaxy—which the Wellesley team have dubbed the “Firefly Sparkle”—was taking shape around 600 million years after the Big Bang, around the time that our own galaxy was forming. Lamiya Mowla, assistant professor of astronomy, is co-lead author of a paper on the discovery published on Dec. 11, 2024, in Nature.
Commanding Moment
Juliet Homes ’25 (at center, below) has been selected as the Cadet Wing Commander of the 365th Cadet Wing of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, located at MIT. She is the first wing commander selected from Wellesley in recent history, the last on record being astronaut Pam Melroy ’83, 42 years ago. As the highest-ranking cadet in the program, Homes oversees the operations of the entire cadet training program, which includes students from MIT, Harvard, Wellesley, and Tufts. In May, she will be the first Wellesley student to commission into the U.S. Space Force, and following graduation she will attend the officer train-ing course in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Book Arts Turns 80
The Wellesley College Book Arts Lab celebrated its 80th anniversary on Sept. 26, 2024, with an event that brought together alums, students, and faculty. Founded in 1944 by rare books librarian Hannah French, the lab began with a 19th-century iron hand press in the basement of Clapp Library. French envisioned students using the press to connect with materials in the College’s Special Collections. Now temporarily housed in Green Hall during library renovations, the lab continues to inspire students through hands-on learning in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and more. Katherine Ruffin, director of the book studies program, says of the lab, “It’s a spirit, it’s a way of doing things. It’s more than just a place.”
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