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
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
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
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
This summer and fall, the College continued to explore nonacademic development for the North 40—the 47 acres across Route 135 and the railroad from Munger and the Hazard Quad—the proceeds of which would be put into renewal of the core campus.More
And suddenly, there was purple. Everywhere. The class of 2018 arrived in late August, quickly donning purple shirts and caps, fanning out over campus. They are 593 strong, hailing from 44 states and the District…More
Professor of Astronomy Dick French sits in his office in Whitin Observatory and delicately pulls out a sextant, dating from the late 1800s. The brass instrument was used to determine latitude and longitude by measuring…More
What does it mean to be a women’s college in the 21st century, particularly at a time when gender definitions are more complex than just male and female? Earlier this fall, President H. Kim Bottomly…More
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
“Texts have meanings that are contained not just in their words, but also in the ways in which the material carriers of those texts—books—were designed and produced,” Assistant Professor of History Simon Grote says.More
In her new book, Domestic Disturbances: Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration , Irene Mata, associate professor of women’s and gender studies, examines Chicana/Latina immigrant stories.More