Academics
Fall 2014
For those waiting in the Green Room of the Barstow Stage in Alumnae Hall, there’s new inspiration to go out and kill: a portrait of Nora Ephron ’62.More
Fall 2014
Grade inflation is like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it. Well, almost no one. For 10 years, Wellesley has pioneered an approach to grading that seeks to…More
Fall 2014
Amanda Trabulsi ’16, a Russian Area Studies major, sends a dispatch from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she is spending a semester at the American University of Central Asia.More
Fall 2014
In June 2013, Cassandra Pattanayak arrived on campus to launch a new initiative. Her position: Jack and Sandra Polk Guthman ’65 Director of Wellesley’s new Quantitative Analysis Institute (QAI). Her mission: To expand the role…More
Fall 2014
Blythe McVicker Clinchy, inaugural Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics and professor of psychology, died on April 23, 2014. She graduated from the Columbus School for Girls, received her B.A. from Smith College, M.A. from…More
Fall 2014
Dan Chiasson, profiled in “A Way of Words” (summer ’14), is just the latest in a long line of acclaimed poets teaching at Wellesley. Readers remind us that the line also includes Philip Booth and Richard Wilbur.More
Fall 2014
On the night of Aug. 5, 2012, as the car-sized robot named Curiosity slammed into Mars’ atmosphere at 13,200 miles per hour in its protective capsule, some 400 scientists were crammed into a basement…More
Summer 2014
Senior lecturer in theatre studies Diego Arciniegas likes to “provoke students” by telling them acting is not a creative art. “Of course, the work involves extraordinary creativity,” he says, “but acting is an interpretive art…More
Summer 2014
The next time you find yourself in search of adventure, consider a trip to Lake Baikal in Russia: a flight to Frankfurt, followed by a transfer to Moscow, and then a red-eye east across the…More
Summer 2014
The letters of Anne Whitney, a 19th-century American sculptor and poet, are a treasure trove of information about the globe-trotting intelligentsia of her time.More