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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Family & Friends Weekend and Homecoming 2013 at Wellesley

    Wellesley is excited to welcome the more than 480 family, friends, and alumnae coming to campus for a weekend of fun, learning, nostalgia, and friendship building.

    September 27, 2013
  • Central St. in Wellesley by night

    Wellesley Night Lights Unites Students, Town, Merchants

    The second annual Wellesley Night Lights takes place September 26, with Wellesley Square merchants staying open late, offering specials (and refreshments) to students, and Wellesley singers and dancers performing outdoors.

    September 26, 2013
  • first edition of Darwin's "origin of species"

    WellesleyX: First MOOC Begins

    Wellesley's first massive open online course (MOOC) has started, but it's not too late to sign up to take Introduction to Human Evolution, taught by Adam Van Arsdale, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, this fall.

    September 25, 2013
  • headshot of Komunyakaa and Tremblay

    Fall 2013 Distinguished Writers Series Opens

    The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities Distinguished Writers Series kicks off on September 24 with a reading by poets Yusef Komunyakaa and Bill Tremblay.

    September 24, 2013