College News

An illusration depicts a stylized flower. A globe forms its center, and one of the petals in the face of a young woman.
Fall 2021
This spring, five faculty members—a marine ecologist, a poet-critic, a historian, and two political scientists—will team-teach a course called The Climate Change Crisis. Megan Núñez, dean of faculty affairs, points to it as a compelling example of the kind of curricular innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and focus on grand challenges that are called for in the College’s new strategic plan.More
President
Fall 2021
In August 2019, we began work on a strategic plan for Wellesley College, the first in recent history. While Wellesley’s longstanding mission—to provide an excellent education to women who will make a difference—is as crucial…More
A photo of AJ Guerrero and her cat
Fall 2021
Photo by Lisa Abitbol With Pride Warmest congratulations on your piece “ Support Across the Rainbow ” (spring 2021), and to Wellesley for hiring AJ Guerrero to coordinate its LGBTQ+ program! I feel it is…More
A photo shows a calendar page from March 2020
Fall 2021
When I returned to work in Green Hall in early September, in some ways, it seemed like time had been frozen at the moment we left campus. My calendar from 2020 was still on the…More
A photo of John Rhodes
Summer 2021
John Rhodes, senior lecturer emeritus of art history, died on March 21. For 28 years, from 1982 to 2010, John was a distinguished instructor in the art department and in the writing program. He was a co-author of an authoritative book on Wellesley’s landscape and architecture, published by the College in 2000.More
A photo of Dot Widmayer '52
Summer 2021
Dorothea “Dot” J. Widmayer ’52, professor emerita of biological sciences, passed away on March 6. Teaching introductory biology and genetics, and carrying out research on gene action and expression in the protozoan Paramecium aurelia, Dot had a great positive influence on many students throughout her long career.More
Clockwise from top left are photo portraits of Marilyn Twomey Smith ’70, Bunny Winter ’70, Andrea Levitt ’71, Lois Juliber ’71.
Summer 2021
祝贺这四个专门的志愿者honored with the Syrena Stackpole Awards at the virtual reunion in June.More
A. photo shows Muslim students flying kites while celebrating Eid on campus in spring 2021.
Summer 2021
The WCAA welcomes a pilot shared identity group, Wellesley Muslim Alums (WMA), which held its first event on Zoom in April.More
A photo portrait shows the new WCAA president, Laura Wood Cantopher '84, wearing a Wellesley-blue top.
Summer 2021
“My opportunities to be a Wellesley volunteer have been a sustenance through my whole life,” says Laura Wood Cantopher ’84, the new president of the Alumnae Association.More
Illustration of a mailbox with the spring issue of Wellesley magazine in it
Summer 2021
当我们努力成为生态和预算意识时,我们正在试行选择打印以确保我们邮寄打印版本Wellesleymagazine only to alumnae who wish to receive it.More