Spring Semester 2008
May 5-12 - Inauguration of H. Kim Bottomly as President of Wellesley College on May 9; two-day celebration for inauguration to be a 'green' event; representatives of institutes of higher learning from across the United States to attend festivities; panel discusses women as groundbreaking explorers and investigators
April 28-May 5 - 2008 Ruhlman Conference celebrates student research; Mayer lecture focuses on potential of stem cells; Wellesley receives education grant of $1.2 million; Budget, arrivals, departures top trustee meeting; Anita Hill and sociologist Eric Fassin to speak on Clarence Thomas hearings
April 21-28 - Dan Chiasson named a Guggenheim Fellow; Wellesley cheers for its students and staff running in the Boston Marathon;seniors participate in annual hoop-rolling competition; first-year student and cancer survivor leads Relay for Life effort; John Kerry's 2004 Campaign Manager Mary Beth Cahill speaks on the upcoming elections; co-founder of online publishing company discusses the future of his industry
April 14-21 - Aerowny Thomas presents a tribute to her father, poet Dylan Thomas, with poet Peter Thabit Jones; lecture on and demostration of Japanese kibuki dance; women's rights advocate Charlotte Bunch delivers the Domna Stanton lecture; Liza Pon speaks on budding yeast for the Helen A. Padykula lecture; activist Maude Barlow discusses the global water crisis.
April 7-14 - First-year student Margaret Chidothe receives one of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects for Peace; mini-Boston Marathon on campus; alumna competing to join LPGA; discussion on post-election conflict in Kenya; Harvard neurobiology professor Margaret Livingstone speaks on biology and art.
March 31- April 7 - President of Hearst Magazines to give commencement address; senior advisor to John McCain speaks on U.S. policy challenges; Suite Française serves as Wellesley's common text; Cornille lecture on Greek chorality; Ethos celebrates 40th anniversary; professor speaks on justice in the 21st century; favorite poem project.
March 17-24 - New Dean of Students and V ice President of Resources and Public Affairs named; Julie Norem, psychology, discusses the power of strategic negative thinking; a panel focuses on 50 years of advancement in women's rights in Tunisia; the Friends of Horticulture hosts its annual Spring Smoothie Night.
March 10-17 - Entertainer and activist Harry Belafonte lectures on social justice; Mock Trial team to compete in national competition; Turkish music concert in celebration of 800th birthday of Sufi poet Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi; Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Lesley University, speaks on the influence of media on children; Ronald Suny, University of Michigan, looks at the early life of Joseph Stalin.
March 3-10 - Boston Fashion Week founder Jay Calderin speaks on the revival of Boston's fashion industry; lecture focuses on intelligence and social equality; lecture on clinical health psychology by Dr. Stanley Berman; Upstage performs Uncommon Women; concert held by international music group Mala Punica.
Feb. 25-March 3 - Museum curator Okwui Enwezor speaks about African photography; Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts Dana Gioia lectures on the future of reading; premiere performance of music compositions for cello; panel of educators looks at federal education standards and urban schools
Feb. 18-25 - Wellesley reduces or elimates loans; actor LeVar Burton speaks as part of Black History Month; F.I.T. car program promotes healthy lifestyles; screening of Towelhead; Israeli environmentalist speaks on clean technologies; Newhouse fellow explores legacy of slavery in Mass.
Feb. 11-18 - Activist Elaine Brown delivers Quintessence Day lecture; ESP Jazz; Greenhouse Kids' Time; Professor Robert Paarlberg's new book Starved for Science; documentary of a patriot's rise from slavery to Capitol Hill; lecture on biomedical engineering
Feb. 4-11 - Journalist Gloria Steinem discusses reproductive rights; filmmaker screens documentary on Venezuela; Professor Kathryn Lynch talks Chaucer and food; speaker challenges American consumerism; alumna Rebecca Homan to speak on habitat loss; Upstage presents A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Dean's Extra Spring 2008
Jan. 28- Feb. 4 - Environmentalist Bill McKibben takes on climate change, astronaut and Wellesley alumna Pamela Melroy to speak, Wellesley Summer Theatre presents The Mai, Black History Month kicks off with showing of "Roots," students study active volcanoes, Wellesley awarded grant to support science research
Fall Semester 2007
Dec. 10-17 - Personal finance course, Johanna Peace '09 writes for CNNU, winter concerts, Schiff Fellowship winners, intramural sports update, botanic gardens host third annual light show
Dec. 3-10 - Olin offers engineering program for Wellesley students, Davis Scholar visits Supreme Court, the Beer Neccessities Wintersession course, Wellesley's Beth DeSombre release debut folk album, soprano Lisa Saffer to perform, iTunes U update
Nov. 26- Dec. 3 - Colin Channer on Caribbean literary tradition, Daniel Abramson on obsolescence in architecture, Upstage presents Ten Little Indians, lecture and workshop on Chinese calligraphy, senior gift campaign kicks off, lip-syncing rugby team takes top honors, renowned poet John Ashbery to read from his works
Nov. 12-19 - Jody Heymann lecture on children and working families, alumna architect to work on alumnae hall, charitable giving campaign, Yang Qiu works to alleviate medical problems for China's poor, Ruth Harriet Jacobs lecture on aging boldly, Indian filmmaker Vijay Singh speaks about his artistic journey.
Nov. 5-12 - Tanner Conference, trustee meeting update, Davis After Dark, environmental justice symposium, four generations of Navajo women speak on culture, Dan Huttenlocher on social networking
Oct. 29- Nov. 5 - Cantonese opera tells the stories of three women, Professor Flavia Laviosa coordinates film symposium on women in the Mediterranean, "Mystical Tree Tour" explores the pagan roots of Halloween, new fitness equipment, Triple Helix celebrates Mozart, students address issue of global climate change
Oct. 22-29 - Pamela Melroy '83 to command space flight, DMCC offers new podcasts, book artist Shirley Jones, sociology student fights injustice, author Meredith Hall reads from memoir, democratization scholar on Bush's legacy
Oct. 15-22 - Prof. Leslie Kurke on Greek prose, sustainability month, pedestrian signal installed, Prof. Margaret Cezair Thompson's new novel, faculty music concert, documentary on WWII
Oct. 8-15 - Wellesley October Weekend, homecoming, Fall Open Campus, Prof. Linda Carli on women conquering the "labyrinth" in the workplace, biographer on Ralph Waldo Ellison, professors sound off on Global Feminisms exhibit
Dean's Extra Fall 2007
Oct. 1-8 - Nobel laureate David Hubel on brain and visual perception, student puts research to good use, Harambee House renovations, Prof. Marion Just book on local TV news, Wellesley partners with Boston Library Consortium, Israeli poet Rachel Tzvia Back to read
Sept. 24-Oct. 1 - Actors from the London Stage present Macbeth, biochemistry student honored for research, Prof. Stephen Marini receives fellowship for research on religion, invasive species removal, "Russia Now" panel discussion
Sept. 17-24 - Davis Museum and Cultural Center reopening celebration, "Global Feminisms" display, concert 2007 kickoff, Pashington Obeng book on "forgotten" African Indians, women's studies department 25th anniversary, La Bohème simulcast
Sept. 10-17 - Newhouse Center welcomes scholars, student summer research, flower Sunday, Wilbur Rich publishes new book, Malone Scholars Announced, Daniel Kanstroom on immigration law
Sept. 3-10 - Wellesley welcomes President Bottomly, class of 2011 arrives, college rankings, day to make a difference
Spring Semester 2007
May 7-14 - Trustee meeting, Fulbright grants, hoop rolling, John Burt poetry book on history and psychology, student awards round-up, Wellesley's new offerings on iTunes U
April 30-May 7 - Ruhlman Conference, Patrick Hogan and Alan Richardson on literary universals, SEQs, Peggy Levitt book on religion and immigration, Brachman Hoffman biological science symposium, spring concerts
April 23-30 - Students receive awards and fellowships, Center for Work and Service awards service grants, Spring Walk about campus trees, Keith Eggener on Mexican architecture, Rose Styron '50 on poetry and human rights, Diana Chapman Walsh Farewell Festival, à la mode fashion show
April 16-23 -Three students receive funding from Kathryn Davis 100 Projects for Peace, Chris Hedges on "American Fascism," Spring Open Campus, Dan Chiasson and Kathryn Lynch publish new poetry books, Paul Josephson on nuclear power and politics, Brigadoon premiere, Daqing Yang on Sino-Japanese relations
April 9-16 -Trustees announce tribute to Diana Chapman Walsh '66, Marathon Monday T-shirt, Maureen Raymo on climate change, Gary Lorden on quantitative reasoning in TV shows, Evelyn White '76 on Alice Walker and Wellesley, Much Ado About Nothing and 4:48 Psychosis openings
April 2-9 - Alia Gurtov '07 receives Watson fellowship, James Anderson on closing the educational achievement gap, Carey Perloff on the public role of theater, Biological Chemistry 40th Anniversary Lecture Series, squash reinstated as varsity sport, WCW contributes to U.N. dialogue, annual Favorite Poem Project
March
26-April 2 - College takes stand against genocide in Sudan, experts tackle human rights and trafficking, Cirque du CS, Subhash Kak on religion in the age of science, Laura Maffei on tanka poetry, activist Neal Katyal on landmark Guantanamo Bay trial, Economics Alumnae Panel
March
12-19 - Madeleine
Albright '59 will be Wellesley's 129th Commencement speaker, Gerd
Korman on childhood refugee memoir, Jennifer Grossman on growing
up Asian American, geological society research presentations, student
athletes win honors, Brian Gothong Tan multimedia art
March
5-12 - Frank
Bidart wins Bollingen Prize, Diane Singerman on gender and Middle
East politics, Julia Bolton Holloway on women's creativity, Natasha
Sivananjaiah ’10 appears on "Design Squad" TV show,
Elisabeth Sussman on sculptor Eva Hesse, Chai Week Jewish life
celebration
Feb.
26-March 5 - Ming
Tsai on his career path and "east meets west" meals, Merck/AAAS
Undergraduate Science Research Program, Blue Notes Spring Teaser,
Vivian Louie and Lori Allen on politics and media in transnational
worlds, fitness and wellness workshop, Roxanne Varzi on mourning
and martyrdom
Feb.
19-26 - Edward
Lazear on "The Economy in a Changing World," mock trial teams qualify
for national tournament, Sports Center extended hours, David Lindauer
book on economics of development, Linda Hartling on overcoming
devalued feelings, RecycleMania 2007, Lady Aoi performance
Feb.
12-19 - Charlayne
Hunter-Gault on black economic empowerment, The Island of the
Mapmaker's Wife film premiere, Greenhouse Kids' Time, The
Betrayal of Srebrenica exhibit, students compete for JPMorgan
charitable donation, tennis coach Christine Franek earns honor,
medieval music concerts
Feb.
5-12 - Alumnae
Achievement Awards, religion and ecology forum, labyrinth opening,
Fine Arts Quartet concert, trustees approve several initiatives,
administrative forum on computer programs, A Little Night Music
Jan.
29-Feb. 5 - Wellesley
on iTunes U, online PE registration, Wang Campus Center wins medal,
Wilbur Rich book on David Dinkins and the politics of media, Davis
Museum curator Anja Chavez wins award, Brontë premiere,
David Sánchez concert
Dean's
Extra Spring 2007
Fall
Semester 2006
Dec.
11-18 - Greenhouse
Light Show, Parrandas celebration, Chamber Music Society,
Wellesley fall sports roundup, Arlene Zallman mourned, premiere
of Brontë, Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration
Dec.
4-11 - Image,
Sound and Glory exhibit, Professor Pat Berman receives
Fulbright, "Walking Man" moves, Schiff Fellowships, SEQs,
Ryerson on "Sex,
Soap Operas and Social Change"
Nov.
27-Dec. 4 - Lolita Common
Text Project, trustees and 2015 Commission, Josh Aronson on stereotype
threat, Craig Murphy book on UNDP, Roxanne Euben book on cultural
travel, Shakespeare
Behind Bars, ping pong exhibition, fall performances
Nov.
13-20 - Ann
Clwyd on human rights in Iraq, Jamaica Kincaid reading, Ann Tolkoff
'70 on urban education, Paul Wink book on early postretirement,
Cristina Pausini book on teaching Italian through film, 2006
orientation theme
wins award, Roseanna Means on women's health care
Nov.
6-13 - Election
Night 2006, board of trustees first quarterly meeting,
Triple Helix celebrates Mozart, state Senator Harriette Chandler
'59 on political careers, Davis Museum's online art database,
Juan Maura on women in colonial Latin America, The Women
of Lockerbie
Oct.
30-Nov. 6 - Standup
for Peace, Mary Cheney on presidential politics, Dia de los
Muertos celebrations, charitable giving campaign, computer
science and verified voting, Mamaland 2006
Oct.
23-30 - Tanner
Conference, graduate students sample liberal arts careers,
Family and Friends Weekend, French baroque dance performance,
Elizabeth DeSombre books on environmental topics, Upstage
presents The
Women
Oct.
16-23 - Julian
Bond on human rights, Evgeny Kiselev on Putin's Russia, media
career panel, Child's Garden events, film series on im/migration, An
Inconvenient Truth screenings, Slater International
Cultural Show
Oct.
9-16 - Jerusalem
Women Speak, Zili Misik concert, Katha Pollitt on social
change, Ruth Harriet Jacobs on successful aging, Alumnae
Clothes Cupboard rummage sale, Three Generations writing
prize
Dean's
Extra Fall 2006
Oct.
2-9 - Writing
from Africa symposium, Fall Open Campus, presidential search
meeting, Rosanne Hertz book on single motherhood, Fontijn
book on composer Antonia Padoani Bembo, breaking of the fast
Sept.
25-Oct 2 - History
in a Shoebox exhibit, "Shakespeare Wars," Renaissance
art symposium, Malone scholar awards, Watson fellow's theatre
project, students attend U.N. conference, Shostakovitch Centennial
Concert
Sept.
18-25 - New
tenure-track faculty, South Asia Studies launch, Spain in
Turmoil exhibit, Actors from the London Stage
Sept.
11-18 - Premiere
of Angel of Memory, Katrina relief, leadership series,
Valerie Ramseyer book on medieval religious transformation,
Silver book on philanthropic partnerships, Russia Now
Sept.
4-11 - U.S.
News rankings, welcome to class of 2010, William Joseph's
historic Chinese photos, new director of athletics, Day to
Make a Difference
Spring
Semester 2006
