Science+Technology
Summer 2015
The room is hushed, the atmosphere focused and intense, as students in a botanical illustration class at the Margaret Ferguson Greenhouses zero in on their project for the morning—accurately rendering a narcissus bulb.More
Summer 2015
The spring of her sophomore year, buzzing with that special kind of excitement that comes from having wielded power tools, Elena Shaw ’15 hurried to Shakespeare House with her creation—a bottle opener. “I was like,…More
Spring 2015
“Winning the Grammy Award for Best Opera was completely unexpected,” says Aaron Sheehan, a member of Wellesley’s music performance faculty. “The category was full of well-seasoned, former winners, so we definitely were the underdogs. The win is a wonderful and much deserved validation for the Boston Early Music Festival and for my own career path.”More
Spring 2015
Through the Wellesley chapter of the national Science Club for Girls, students share their love of “STEM”—science, technology, engineering, and math—with young girls from all over Boston.More
Spring 2015
Before Lisa Stone ’88 co-founded BlogHer, the worldwide community of women bloggers, before she had garnered numerous accolades—before all of that—she was a single mom, trying to raise a young son.More
Spring 2015
Leaving Orbit is a heartfelt obituary of the final days of the NASA space-shuttle program, told poetically by Margaret Lazarus Dean ’94.More
Spring 2015
I want to congratulate those who in very recent years have transformed Wellesley magazine into a “must-read” for me along with a very few other publications. The timeliness of the main articles, the content and layout of the minor, won’t let me skip a page.More
Winter 2015
If you were an art major at Wellesley, you might have spent some time studying Sonia Delaunay-Terk’s Electric Prisms at the Davis. Now, Parisians are enjoying it, too.More
Winter 2015
This microscope was used in the late 1800s by Emilia Jones Barker, M.D., the College’s resident physician, who was also known as the “Little Doctor.”More
Winter 2015
Catherine Baltazar ’16 studied abroad in Ecuador, examining the ecological, social, and cultural effects the petroleum industry has on an indigenous community, Loma del Tigre in the Amazon.More