Window on Wellesley

Joy in Movement Masks and All

Without any competition on the immediate horizon, the cross country and track & field team’s primary training goal this fall has been to establish good habits and reinforce proper technique so they are prepared for future competition.More
Tatiana Ivy Moise ’21

Making Wellesley A Home

“I love connecting people to things that they need, or people to people whom they don’t even know that they need to meet, or could benefit from meeting. I love being that middle person, and that’s ultimately what College Government is,” says CG President Tatiana Ivy Moise ’21.More
MILLIE STONE ’23 and TARINI SINHA ’22

Life on Campus in 2020

Two students who returned to Wellesley this fall reflect on the good, the bad, and the unexpected on campus in the time of COVID-19.More
创建一个安全的校园和社会疏远

创建一个安全的校园和社会疏远

Once the decision was made to have students return to campus in the fall, it was all hands on deck as everyone raced to make sure it could happen, and would happen as safely as possible.More
A Time of Testing

A Time of Testing

This summer and fall, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Wellesley faced a daunting task: develop a testing program that would allow students to return to campus while keeping the Wellesley community safe.More
The wall of Sage Hall that forms the Focus is supported by steel beams during the construction of the Science Center

Science Rising

As construction workers on the new Science Center prepared to place the last piece of structural steel in the building skeleton, students, faculty, and donors were invited to sign the final beam, which had been painted a bright Wellesley blue.More
Abstract collage-like illustration made of young faces with different skin tones

Making Change

Wellesley for Black Students and the Native American Student Association each issued lists of demands amid nationwide protests over the summer.More
Valeria Yang ’21 and Bryn van Dommelen ’22 sit on tree stumps in the Sitting Circle in golden early fall light

Sitting Circle

Mika Taga-Anderson ’20, an intern for the Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative in 2019–20, created a sitting circle in a pine grove in the botanic gardens—an area that only wanderers who have left paths will happen upon.More
Illustration of a woman sitting on a dock, dipping her toe in the water while looking at a smart phone, while a design of linked circles representing connections grows from where her foot touches the surface

On-the-Job Experience, Online

COVID-19 may have put a stop to in-person internships, but Wellesley students still gained valuable on-the-job experience this past spring and summer, thanks to alumnae.More
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College Road

Things we miss about Wellesley; the launch of the Camilla Chandler Frost ’47 Center for the Environment; the Davis Museum in the pandemicMore
Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau

Music as a Lens on Race And Gender

Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau’s students may have had their semester upended, but they are finding respite in the upbeat rhythms of reggaeton, bachata, and merengue.More
Josh Lambert, the Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English

No Laughing Matter

Josh Lambert, the new Sophia Moses Robison Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, discusses one the first courses he’s teaching at Wellesley, ENG 290/JWST 290: Jews, African-Americans, And Other Minorities in U.S. Comics and Graphic NovelsMore
这张照片包括5个20的船员中介团队ers: Sooji Kang (cox), Rhiannon Mulligan, Frances Dingivan, Faye Washburn, and Maria Iannotti. Not pictured are classmates Alison Carey, Olivia Holbrook, Eve Montie, and Emmet Odegaard.

Tip of the Hat to the 2019–2020 Wellesley Crew

“Last year’s team was one of the best teams I have coached in my time here at Wellesley. They really functioned in a cohesive and competitive way, and I give a lot of credit to the red hot class of 2020 for fostering that kind of environment.”More