• Illustration of a lightning bolt hitting Galen Stone Tower in Green Hall while two students looking on from Severance Hill wearing raincoats and carrying umbrellas are awed.

    The Stuff of Legend

    SUMMER 2025

    Feature Story

    As the College enters its sesquicentennial year, E.B. Bartels ’10 got to the bottom of some of Wellesley's most famous lore.

  • Photo of President Paula A. Johnson standing outside Green Hall

    In Praise of Academic Freedom

    SUMMER 2025

    From the President

    At this moment, we are seeing unprecedented attacks on higher education across the country, and the value of—and right to—academic freedom is being called into question. This is to the detriment of all of us.

  • Photo of Eunice Zhang ’27 in one of the Gothic stairways outside Founders Hall

    More Than Words

    SUMMER 2025

    Feature Story

    In the College’s new Narrative Lab, students look deeply into how narratives are constructed and the ways they create meaning.

  • Ministrations: An Encore in the Arts

    SUMMER 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Fran Lewitter Schulman ’75 earned her M.B.A. at Stanford and worked as an investment analyst in New York City, retiring in 2023 after a 40-year career. In retirement, she is just about as busy as she was as an analyst, she says, but her schedule is more flexible. She has time to visit with her son and grandchild, and she has gotten deeply involved in volunteer work, including co-chairing her 50th reunion this May.

  • Photo of Nancy “Nana” Lampton ’64

    From Corporations to Conservation

    SUMMER 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Nana Lampton ’64 had a circuitous path to serving on corporate boards and conservation work.

  • Photo of Kweilin Moore Ellingrud ’99

    A Global View

    SUMMER 2025

    Class Notes: Profile

    Growing up in many different countries, Kweilin Moore Ellingrud ’99 observed “two ends of the [gender equality] spectrum,” which got her thinking about how women “live and lead in different ways around the world.”

  • In Memoriam: Marjorie Agosín

    SUMMER 2025

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Marjorie Agosín, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, passed away on March 10, just shy of her 70th birthday.

  • Photo of a Wellesley lamppost with Lake Waban

    Alumnae Memorials

    SUMMER 2025

    Class Notes: In Memoriam

    Tributes to members of the Wellesley community

  • Three members of the class of 2020, wearing robes and red 2020 stoles, embrace outside Alumnae Hall

    2020 Commencement Celebration

    SUMMER 2025

    WCAA

    On May 23, more than 300 of the 569 members of the class of 2020 returned to Wellesley for their long-awaited commencement exercises, kicking off their first reunion weekend.