Window on Wellesley

Summer 2019

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Stories in Motion

If you came to sit quietly for two hours, you came to the wrong place. The performers at the 17th annual Latinx Culture show had too much energy to keep it contained on stage.More

Community In a Cup of Sugar

Helen Wang, director of residence life and housing, considers learning to live in community a central aspect of every student’s Wellesley experience. “The residential context is one of the few remaining spaces in the nation where people from all walks of life can be together and intersect,” she says.More

Ethos Sings Again

When Jill Foye ’22 started at Wellesley, Ethos no longer had a singing group. But thanks to funds donated by alumnae in honor of the recent 50th anniversary of the organization, she and 10 other students came together last semester as the Harambee Singers.More

Poetry Lives at Wellesley

When National Poetry Month kicked off on April 1, poems by 29 members of the Wellesley community starting rolling on the Boston T, taking over space usually reserved for advertising.More

Treasure at the Transfer Station

Marie Crowley Sobalvarro ’88 was “shopping” at the TIOLI (Take It or Leave It) section of the transfer station in Harvard, Mass., when a large book caught her attention, and she took it home. When Ruth Rogers, curator of Special Collections at Clapp Library, saw it, she immediately knew it was valuable.More

A Good Day to Roll Hoops

The morning of this year’s race dawned cool and rainy, with light winds from the southwest, and although the slick pavement made the course more hazardous than usual, it didn’t faze Paige Hauke ’19. “Any Hooprolling day is a good Hooprolling day,” she says.More

Commencement 2019

When the class of 2019 gathered for the last time of their college career, the full range of commencement emotions was on display under the big white tent on Severance Green—joy, excitement, hope, sadness—as the…More

The Thesis Experience

Jocelyne Reahl ’19 wrote her thesis about about how the characteristics of ancient sediments reveal climate history; for her composition thesis, Demilade Adeboye ’19 conducted her piece Quartet for Strings.More

College Road

Marathon lost and found; new head of PERA and dean of religious and spiritual life; grading policy repealedMore

Online Safety for All

Ada Lerner’s research on inclusion security and privacy centers on how to provide the benefits of technology equitably across society.More

Ancient World, Modern Tech

Bryan Burns uses technology to allow his students to virtually move through an archaeological site from Early Mycenaean tombs in ancient Eleon, a dig site north of Athens.More

Eye on Africa

As she prepares to retire after 22 years in the Africana Studies department, Professor Filomina Steady isn’t slowing down. She has a new book, The African Diaspora Returns Home , in the pipeline, and her research remains very much on her mind.More