Faculty Profiles
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Ellen B. Widmer
Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of East Asian StudiesB.A. Wellesley College; M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard UniversityI study traditional Chinese fiction, history of Chinese women's writing, history of the book in China, and missionaries to East Asia.
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Michael Wiest
Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceB.A., Dartmouth College; M.S., Ph.D., Michigan State UniversityMission: to determine the distributed neural correlates of perception.
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Howard Wilcox
Professor of Mathematics, EmeritusAB Hamilton College, Ph.D. University of RochesterRetired from Wellesley in 2007 after 37 years of teaching mathematics.
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Jeremy B. Wilmer
Assistant Professor of PsychologyB.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Harvard UniversityResearch focuses on using individual differences to isolate functional organization, biology/development, and utility of visual function in humans.
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Paul M. Wink
Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics; Professor of PsychologyB.A., M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)Psychology Department chair; research interests include adult development; positive psychology; religion and spirituality; altruism; narcissism; wisdom; cross-cultural conceptions of the self.
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Adele Wolfson
Nan Walsh Schow ’54 and Howard B. Schow Professor in the Physical and Natural Sciences; Professor of ChemistryB.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., Columbia UniversityBiochemistry research on hormone regulation of enzymes; educational research on core concepts in biochemistry, retention of women and minorities in science.
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Winifred Jane Wood
Senior Lecturer in the Writing ProgramB.A., University of Illinois (Urbana); M.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts (Amherst)Interests: language, writing, media, film. How students learn to write; how writing differs across settings; electronic discourse.
