Window on Wellesley

Fall 2016

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A Night to Remember

Some 3,000 members of the Wellesley community and their guests cheered for Hillary Rodham Clinton ’69 in the Keohane Sports Center on Nov. 8 as reports from the polls began to come in, and wept at evening’s end when it became clear that the highest, hardest glass ceiling hadn’t been broken—yet.More

Helping Refugees at a Crossroads

“Wear the hat of a refugee,” Saraphin Dhanani ’16 was told. “Immerse yourself in their trials and tribulations and the pain and dwindling hope they face.” This was the advice Dhanani was given in Jordan her junior year.More

Sacred Spoon

Wakemia, large ceremonial spoons like the one pictured below, played a vital role in the spiritual and cultural life of the Dan peoples in Ivory Coast and Liberia in the 19th to early 20th…More

Blue Sports Legends Honored

In October, a large crowd, many on campus for Homecoming and Family & Friends Weekend, gathered in the Alumnae Hall ballroom as four Wellesley sports standouts were inducted into the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame.More

Crew Coach Celebrated

Blue Crew coach Tessa Spillane has selected as the Ernestine Bayer Award winner by USRowing.More

Serving Up Career Education

The newly hired staff of Wellesley’s reenvisioned Career Education program introduced themselves to the College community at an ice-cream social in September.More

All Together Now

Eliana Marostica ’18 understands the importance of time—being in time, being on time, and being able to find time.More

In Focus: Multiculturalism and Human Rights

Sofie Werthan ’18 on why she’s spending a semester studying multiculturalism and human rights in South Africa and what she’s learning from the experience.More

Lost: One Very Important Item

Want to announce an event? Need a contractor for your kitchen? Misplace your cell phone? The College’s electronic bulletins have a way of bringing the campus together in discussions over matters large and small. Every…More

College Road

Beth DeSombre, Frost Professor of Environmental Studies, spends her days in the classroom, but she’s out nights and weekends in coffeehouses and concert venues around the Northeast, guitar in hand.More

Matters of Choice

The small decisions that students make can have big consequences for them, argues Professor of Sociology Lee Cuba, co-author of Practice for Life: Making Decisions in College.More

When the Sacred Meets the Artistic

“I want my students to think about what it means to be human,” says Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, associate professor and director of the South Asia Studies program. She asks them to consider: “What is sacred to me? How does my humanity connect to the rest of the world?”More

Listen In

We spoke with Assistant Professor of Music Kaleb Goldschmitt—an ethnomusicologist and a scholar of popular music of the Americas, especially Brazil—about the Rio Olympics, Barry White, and why Taylor Swift might not be so bad.More