For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.More
The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and…More
The numbers would suggest they do, at least when it comes to alumni giving. Last year, alumni participation rates at many coeducational peer liberal-arts colleges exceeded that of Wellesley.More
The Baltimore Wellesley Club welcomed classmates Jacki Musacchio ’89, professor of art at Wellesley, and Julia Marciari-Alexander ’89, the new director of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum, for an evening of art and socializing last fall.More
Lawry Jones Meister ’83 of Pacific Palisades, Calif., has been nominated to serve a six-year term as an alumnae trustee, from 2014 to 2020, succeeding Ruth Chang ’81.More
To be elected by the alumnae body at the annual meeting of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association on June 8 at 11:30 a.m. in Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall:More
