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
It’s the end of the semester, and exams loom. Students are slogging to the finish. Or not. Look again. A student sails free, back and forth under the canopy of leaves outside the chapel.More
It’s hard to imagine anything that doesn’t capture the wide-ranging interests of Nora Mishanec ’14. “I’ve always been a dilettante,” she laughs. “I like to do everything.”More
“You must roll your hoop,” said Class Dean John O’Keefe at the starting line of the 119th annual Hooprolling on May 3. “It’s not called the race where I wear my hoop around my waist and Hula-Hoop my way.”More
Throughout her long life, Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28 had a way of bringing people together. This spring, a year after Davis’s passing at the age of 106, the College community gathered to honor her legacy.More
A century ago, the Wellesley College class of 1914 graduated a mere 13 weeks after the devastating early-morning fire that robbed the College of its central building, but not its spirit.More
To the townspeople of Wellesley, it’s a premier place to walk dogs and dig in the dirt, victory-garden style. To most students, it’s terra incognita—a place they never set foot, unless they are into organic farming.More
In his research, Nicholas Rodenhouse, Frost Professor in Environmental Science and professor of biological sciences, focuses on how climate change is affecting migratory songbirds.More
Pauline and Henry Durant didn’t want buildings named after them, but they never said anything about birds. So when a pair of common ravens built a nest on a Science Center fire escape, they quickly became Pauline and Henry.More
Jordan Tynes calls the MakerBot Replicator 2x “the Easy-Bake Oven” of 3-D printing. And the College has three of them. Printers that crank out things instead of documents have been around for a while. But…More
The letters of Anne Whitney, a 19th-century American sculptor and poet, are a treasure trove of information about the globe-trotting intelligentsia of her time.More
In April, President H. Kim Bottomly announced the establishment of a revolving green fund to help support energy efficiency, renewable energy, and sustainable building projects on campus.More
Courtney Peterson ’17 showed up ready to play. Take, for example, the field hockey team’s NCAA Tournament Second Round game against Ursinus College last fall: Peterson, a first-year, stormed her way to a goal and an assist in her tourney debut.More
As seniors were processing across the stage on Severance Green, the Wellesley crew was seeing blue in Indiana, competing in their fifth consecutive NCAA Division III Rowing Championships. They came home toting trophies: The varsity-8…More
The next time you find yourself in search of adventure, consider a trip to Lake Baikal in Russia: a flight to Frankfurt, followed by a transfer to Moscow, and then a red-eye east across the…More
Senior lecturer in theatre studies Diego Arciniegas likes to “provoke students” by telling them acting is not a creative art. “Of course, the work involves extraordinary creativity,” he says, “but acting is an interpretive art…More
