The Campus
 Located
just 12 miles west of Boston, Wellesley’s 500-acre
campus of woodlands, hills, meadows, an arboretum, ponds, miles of
footpaths, fitness trails, and athletic fields and facilities borders
scenic Lake Waban. The 68 buildings on campus range in architectural
style from Gothic to contemporary.
Facilities and Resources
State-of-the-art
academic facilities, ranging from creative arts media to advanced
scientific research equipment support Wellesley’s
curriculum. These facilities are available to all students.
Classrooms
The three primary classroom buildings on campus are Founders Hall
for the humanities, Pendleton Hall for the social sciences and arts,
and the Science Center.
Science Center
The Science Center houses the Departments of Astronomy, Biological
Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geosciences, Mathematics,
Physics, and Psychology, as well as several interdepartmental programs.
The Center includes up-to-date teaching and research laboratories,
extensive computer facilities, and modern classrooms. The Science
Library contains more than 110,000 volumes, maintains subscriptions
to more than 725 paper journals and periodicals with additional journals
in electronic format, and provides access to online databases.
 Sage Hall, the
College’s original science building, dates
to 1927. The Science Center, encompassing Sage Hall and new construction,
was built in 1977 and won the Halston Parker Prize for architecture
in 1987. Renovations and additions to the Science Center were done
in 1991. The Center contains a variety of state-of-the-art instrumentation
including: a confocal microscope, two NMR spectrometers (one with
a micro-MRI accessory), a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer, energy dispersive
X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, microcalorimeters, an automated
capillary DNA sequencer, a high-power pulsed tunable laser, and a
16-node supercomputer equipped with state-of-the-art bioinformatics
tools. For more information, visit our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/ScienceCenter/mainpage1.html.
Botanic Gardens 
The
Botanic Gardens represent a historically significant component of
the College’s
campus. Dating from 1922, the Margaret
C.
Ferguson Greenhouses contain a diverse array of exotic plants representing
various climatic regions from around the world. The
22 acres of the Hunnewell Arboretum and the Alexandra Botanic Garden
showcase an extensive collection of hardy trees and shrubs for New
England, many having been planted in the early twentieth century.
All of the collections support courses and research in the biological
sciences. The Gardens are an outstanding teaching facility and community
resource visited by thousands each year. For more information visit
our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/FOH/home.html.
Observatory
The Whitin Observatory contains laboratories, classrooms, a darkroom,
and the Astronomy Library. Its research equipment includes 6-, 12-,
and 24-inch telescopes, state-of-the-art electronics, and computers.
The observatory was a gift of Mrs. John C. Whitin, a former trustee
of the College. Built in 1900, and enlarged in 1906 and 1966, it
is considered an unusually fine facility for undergraduate training
in astronomy.
 Computer Facilities
Students
have access to hundreds of computers in computing labs, classrooms,
and residence hall computing rooms. Advanced computing
and multimedia equipment and software are available in the Knapp
Media and Technology Center, located in the Margaret Clapp Library.
Wellesley’s ResNet provides support to students who use the
high-speed, campus-wide network from their own rooms to access electronic
resources both on campus and around the world. These resources include:
the College Web site; the library online catalog and full-text electronic
resources; centralized E-mail and conferencing provided via FirstClass®;
Element K® online courses for desktop applications, and an array
of instructional software. For more information visit our Web site:
www.wellesley.edu/Computing/computing.html
Knapp Media and Technology Center
The Knapp Media and Technology Center, located in the Margaret Clapp
Library, contains 43 computer workstations capable of viewing and
digitizing audio and video, scanning printed images, slides, film
and negatives and creating digital images and animations; audio and
video-production studios; a video-conferencing site; three computer
and media-equipped project rooms; two video-editing rooms; a large
format printer; and other multimedia equipment and software.
Information Services staff assist faculty, students, and staff in
the use of these resources and collaborate in the development of
multimedia projects.
The Knapp Center also provides support for course reserves, laptops,
cameras, and other equipment for check-out.
For more information see www.wellesley.edu/Knapp/.
Jewett Arts Center and Pendleton West
The
Jewett Arts Center consists of the Mary Cooper Jewett art wing
and the Margaret
Weyerhaeuser Jewett music wing. The art wing consists
of classrooms, studios, photography darkrooms, video and computer
facilities, art gallery, art library, and visual resources collection.
The newly renovated Jewett sculpture court is used for exhibiting,
gathering, and as a student workspace and lounge (enhanced by its
wireless accessible capabilities). The music wing holds the music
library, listening rooms, practice studios, classrooms, and a collection
of musical instruments from various periods available for the student’s
use. Music performances, theatre events, lectures, and symposia can
be held in the Jewett Auditorium, a 320-seat theatre. The arts facilities
of Pendleton West include drawing and painting studios, a sculpture
foundry, a printmaking facility, and a concert salon. A bridge links
the Jewett Arts Center to the Davis Museum and Cultural Center.
 The Knapp Social Science
Center
The
Knapp Social Science Center at Pendleton Hall East opened in January
2001.
The new Center was created to integrate the social
sciences
and to provide instructional space that is varied in design and layout.
The physical space includes case-study classrooms,
computer classrooms with individual student workstations, seminar
rooms, and
a video-conferencing facility. In addition to research facilities
for faculty and students, an archaeology laboratory and a media laboratory
were added which function as extended teaching areas. Public spaces
include a viewing room equipped with a large TV/VCR/DVD set-up, wireless
computing capability and a two-story atrium with bleachers and informal
seating. The Center was given by Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 and her
husband Cleon Knapp.
The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities
The
Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley
College was established by a generous gift from Susan and Donald
Newhouse in 2004. The Newhouse Center aims to enrich the intellectual
life of the Wellesley College community and, in particular, to promote
excellence and innovation in humanistic studies. The Newhouse Center
occupies a freshly renovated space on the second floor of Green Hall,
including office space for a collaborative research community of
resident scholars, and small and large seminar rooms that are the
site of faculty seminars and reading groups as well as a variety
of activities for the benefit of the community at large. In addition,
the Newhouse Center sponsors and coordinates many other programs
and activities on campus, including the Mary J. Cornille Distinguished
Visiting Professorship in the Humanities, the Common Text Project,
the Dorothy H. Magee Colloqium series, and more. For additional information
visit: http://www.wellesley.edu/NCH/
The
Davis Museum and Cultural Center 
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is the art museum of Wellesley
College. As a vital force in the intellectual and pedagogical life
of the College, the museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets
art in the belief that contact with original works of art is an essential
component of a liberal arts education and a key factor for understanding
the world in which we live. Located in the center of the campus,
the museum offers innovative exhibitions, technology-based installations,
lectures, symposia, films, concerts, performances, publications as
well as interdisciplinary projects that are developed in collaboration
with faculty. In addition, the museum provides a range of internships
in the arts on campus, throughout the country and in Europe.
The four-story
facility includes spacious galleries for the museum’s
permanent
collection that spans the 3,000 years of art history, temporary exhibition
galleries, cinema, and café.
For
additional information, visit the DMCC Web site: www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu
 Margaret Clapp Library
Wellesley
College Library received the first nation-wide “Excellence
in Academic Libraries” award. The combined Clapp, Art, Astronomy,
Music, and Science collections number over 1.5 million. The library’s
physical holdings are supplemented by a wealth of online materials
and through resource-sharing with the Boston Library Consortium.
Among the Library’s
notable features are the College Archives, the Book Arts Lab, where
typography and letterpress printing are
taught, and the Special Collections, which contain rare books and
manuscripts that support student research.
Research and Instruction specialists staff service desks, help with
in-depth research, and schedule hands-on sessions for professors
and their classes.
All
of the libraries offer workstations with elbow room, quiet and
comfortable study space, help from knowledgeable staff, and information
to enhance life and learning. Visit our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/Library/ for
details.
Lulu Chow Wang
Campus Center
 The mission of the Wellesley College Campus
Center is to enable faculty, students and staff as well as their
friends
and associates to play and work together in common space; to give
student organizations flexible meeting space; to allow small and
large groups of students to gather spontaneously and for planned
events. It is the gathering space for all members of the campus
community.
The
Center provides flexible space for members of the community to
eat together or have informal gatherings. It offers services
that are necessary and appealing for all members of the community,
including a bookstore that offers a variety of products and an
information center where the master events calendar is kept and
displayed. The Campus Center welcomes and encourages both planned
and spontaneous events all day and far into the evening hours.
It is a place for fun and relaxation, and also a space where
students, faculty and staff can get something done: have a meeting,
mail a letter, consult with a professor, purchase sundries, check
email, or make photocopies. The Center provides space and food
offerings that demonstrate its purpose as a multi-constituency
gathering place for coffee and meals, on weekdays, weekends,
and late into the night.
The
Campus Center fulfills the College community's need to be with
the smaller groups with which people identify, while never far
from the larger community. After students, faculty, and staff
leave their small group, they can immediately connect to the
larger community in open, flexible use space. The Center reinforces
the strongly held Wellesley value of small group experiences,
while underscoring that those groups are part of the larger whole
that is the College.
For more information, visit the web site: http://www.wellesley.edu/WangCampusCenter/
 Residence Halls
Residence halls are grouped in three areas of the campus: Bates,
Freeman, McAfee, Simpson West, Cedar Lodge, Dower, French House,
Homestead, Instead, and Stone-Davis are near the Route 16 entrance
to the campus; Tower Court, Severance, Cervantes, Lake, and Claflin
are situated off College Road in the center of the campus; and Shafer,
Pomeroy, Cazenove, Beebe, and Munger are located by the Route 135
entrance to the College. For more information visit our Web site:
www.wellesley.edu/
FirstYear/residence.html.
Continuing Education House
A “home on campus” for
Elisabeth Kaiser Davis Scholars and Postbaccalaureate students,
as well as for nonresident students
of traditional age, the CE House is a place where students gather
for programs, meetings, group study, or simply conversation. The
Office of Continuing Education is located here. For more information
visit our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/NSP/.
Child
Study Center
The Child Study Center, a laboratory preschool under the direction
of the psychology department, was originally designed in 1913 as
a school for young children. Students and faculty from any discipline
can study, observe, conduct approved research, volunteer, or assistant
teach in classes with children ages two to five. In addition to the
observation and testing booths in the historic Anne Page Building,
there is a Developmental Laboratory at the Science Center.
 Nannerl Overholser Keohane Sports Center
Classes for all indoor sports, aquatics, fitness, and dance are conducted
in the Nannerl Overholser Keohane Sports Center, which includes an
eight-lane competition swimming pool; badminton, squash, and racquetball
courts; two weight rooms; exercise/dance/yoga studios; volleyball
courts; and an athletic training area. The Field House has a basketball/volleyball
arena, two cardiovascular machine areas, indoor tennis courts, and
a 200-meter track. Outdoor water sports focus around the boathouse
on Lake Waban, where the canoes, sailboats, and crew shells are kept.
Wellesley maintains a nine-hole golf course; eight tennis courts;
soccer fields; an artificial-turf field hockey/lacrosse field; a
recreation field; a 10-lane track and a softball field. For more information
visit
our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/Athletics/main.html.
Alumnae Hall
The largest auditorium on the campus, Alumnae Hall seats more than
1,300 people and contains a large ballroom as well as the Ruth Nagel
Jones Theatre. Wellesley alumnae gave this building to the College
in 1923.
 Chapel
Presented
to Wellesley in 1897 by the son and daughter of William S. Houghton,
a former
College trustee, the Houghton Memorial Chapel
hosts weekly religious and spiritual services, musical performances,
lectures, and other College community gatherings. Stained glass windows
commemorate the founders and a tablet by Daniel Chester French honors
Alice Freeman Palmer, Wellesley’s second president. A smaller
multifaith Chapel, Muslim prayer room, and Buddhist/Hindu meditation
room are located on the ground floor level.
Schneider Center
Schneider
Center houses the following student offices: College Government;
the Schneider Board of Governors (SBOG); the Student Bursar; Wellesley
News; Legenda, the college yearbook; WZLY; Spectrum; Mezcla
and Wellesley Asian Alliance (WAA). Other
facilities and
offices
in Schneider
include a Student Leadership Resource Center; a lounge and kosher
kitchen for Hillel; Office of Religious and Spiritual Life; the Offices
of the Asian Advisor and the Latina Advisor; the Advisor to Lesbian,
Transexual and Transgendered Students; the Office of Residential
Life; the Office of Residential Life; and the Office of Summer
Programs.
 Harambee House
The
cultural and social center for Wellesley students of African descent,
Harambee House offers programs to the entire College community
that highlight various aspects of African, African American, and
African Caribbean culture. Harambee has a growing library dedicated
to the history and culture of African and African American peoples
and a library of classical jazz by Black artists, which is located
in the Jewett Music Library. Harambee House also houses various organizations
for students of African descent, and Ethos Woman (a literary magazine),
as well as meeting and function rooms. For more information, visit
our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/Harambee/index.html.
Slater International Center
Headquarters for international activities, Slater International
Center is dedicated to encouraging greater understanding among
all cultures through personal association and cooperative endeavor.
The
Center serves campus organizations, academic and administrative
departments that have an interest in international issues and helps
sponsor seminars
and speakers. The Office of the Advisor to International Students
and Scholars is located in the Center. The advisor counsels international
students, advises international organizations, and handles immigration
matters for students and faculty. The Center also coordinates a
peer advising group of international students to help newcomers
adjust
to the United States. International students can also use the Center
to study and meet informally. For more information visit our Web
site: www.wellesley.edu/SICISS/sic/sic.html.
 Society Houses
Wellesley has three society houses: Shakespeare House, for students
interested in Shakespearean drama; Tau Zeta Epsilon House, for students
interested in art and music; and Zeta Alpha House, for students interested
in literature. Each has kitchen and dining facilities, a living room,
and other gathering areas. Phi Sigma is a society that promotes intelligent
interest in cultural and public affairs.
 Green Hall
The
offices of the president, the board of admission, the deans, and
others directly
affecting the academic and business management
of the College are located in Green Hall. Named for Hetty H.R. Green,
the building was erected in 1931. The hall’s Galen Stone Tower,
a focal point of the campus, rises to 182 feet and houses the carillon
which is played for major College events.
President’s
House
Formerly
the country estate of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fowle Durant, Wellesley’s founders, the President’s
House is located on a hill bordering Lake Waban just south of the
main campus. It
is frequently the site of alumnae and trustee gatherings, and events
for faculty, staff, and students throughout the year.
Wellesley College Club
A
center for faculty, staff, and alumnae, the Wellesley College Club’s
reception and dining rooms are open for lunch and dinner to members,
their
guests, and parents of students. Overnight accommodations
are available for all members, alumnae, and parents of current and
prospective students. For more information visit our Web site: www.wellesley.edu/Collegeclub.
 Wellesley Centers for Women
The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) has been a driving force,
both behind the scenes and in the spotlight, promoting positive change
for women and girls for more than 30 years. The world's largest women's
research center, the WCW unites the Center for Research on Women
and the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies in an
interdisciplinary community of scholars engaged in research, training,
analysis and action.
Sustained by private
and public funding, WCW work focuses on the education, employment,
family life, wellness, and rights of women
and children from all walks of life. WCW has also published The Women’s
Review of Books. The WCW was instituted in 1974 under the name Center
for Research on Women by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. The
Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies, founded in 1981
with a gift from Grace W. and Robert S. Stone, is dedicated to the
prevention of psychological problems, the enhancement of psychological
well-being, and the search for a better understanding of human development.
The Stone Center fulfills this mission through education, research,
community outreach, and counseling with a particular focus on culturally
diverse populations.
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