Science+Technology
Winter 2015
Jody Platto CE/DS ’15, a professional horse rider turned neuroscience major, spent the summer immersed in the world of pediatric neurology thanks to the newly created Wellesley College Class of 1989 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Summer Fellowship.More
Winter 2015
Carol Ann Paul, senior instructor of science laboratory emerita and a founding member of the neuroscience program, taught with passion at the College for 27 years (1983 to 2010).More
Winter 2015
I won big in the parking lottery of life years ago when I was assigned to the Founders lot in the center of campus. I’m thankful for it every winter when I don’t have to…More
Winter 2015
In the late 1990s, a cluster of weather-beaten wooden buildings stood quietly in the middle of a mesa in Los Alamos, N.M., framed by tall ponderosa pines. The buildings were abandoned in the mid-1950s, visited only by occasional herds of deer.More
Winter 2015
For Ashley Funk ’16, climate change is the defining issue of her generation. She is working tirelessly to safeguard the future of the planet.More
Winter 2015
Following the migration of the red knot, a threatened sandpiper, into far-northern Canada, a writer faces the extremes of the Arctic and the visible effects of climate change.More
Fall 2014
Alex Diesl, associate professor of mathematics, explains what a “noncommutative ring theorist” actually does.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
You don’t really understand the term “digital native” until you’ve seen a toddler make a swiping motion across a picture book, trying to get the story to advance.More
Fall 2014
What is the future of the College library as e-books and digitization become more common? Whatever happens, Clapp will still house books—including the priceless core collection donated by founder Henry Durant.More