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  • A woman in a white lab coat stands in front of rows of files.

    Meet Jennifer Schwartz, Wellesley’s New Medical Director of Health Services and Sports Medicine

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    • Administration
    Published:  December 18, 2019

    Physician Jennifer Schwartz joins Wellesley’s Health Services in an ongoing effort by the College to strengthen health care delivery on campus.

  • workers in an Amazon shipping warehouse

    How the Rise in Online Shopping Affects the Planet

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    • Research and innovation
    Published:  December 6, 2019

    Beth DeSombre, Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley, discusses the environmental repercussions of the rise in online shopping, why consumers make choices that harm the environment, and what a green shipping industry might look like.

  • Two students stand by a newly planted tree and have their picture taken with a cell phone

    A Digital Map Celebrates a Wellesley Tradition: Class Trees

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    • Student experience
    Published:  October 21, 2019

    Kristine Meader ’21 created an interactive map of Wellesley’s class trees.

  • A large full moon with a tiny astronaut holding an American flag floats above the observatory.

    Wellesley Physicist Researches the Moon Using Instrument Left by Apollo 11

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    • Research and innovation
    Published:  July 19, 2019

    Reflectors left on the moon 50 years ago by the Apollo 11 astronauts still yield significant data for scientists like Wellesley professor James Battat and his team of student researchers.

  • Students pull invasive plants out of the ground and put them in piles for later use.

    Wellesley Students Learn to Make Paper the Hard Way—from Plants

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    • In the classroom
    Published:  July 15, 2019
  • Child dressed in a lion costume and lion face paint laughs

    Why Do Kids Pretend to Be Animals? Wellesley Professor Explains

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    • Research and innovation
    Published:  June 26, 2019
  • A wheat field in India

    Nutrition Shock: How an Abundance of Food Can Lead to an Increase in Chronic Disease

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    • Research and innovation
    Published:  April 18, 2019

    Wellesley professor Gauri Kartini Shastry studies India’s Green Revolution to find a connection between a dramatic increase in the production of food grains and growth in chronic diseases—an unintended impact.

  • A woman holds an iPad with old photos of women.

    Wellesley Women Were Pioneers in Code Breaking and Code Making

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    • Wellesley in the world
    Published:  March 22, 2019

    Wellesley women contributed to code breaking during World War II and to breakthroughs in early computer science.

  • Enigma decoding machine in use, 1943.

    Clandestine Classes, Classified Homework, and Oaths of Secrecy: Wellesley’s WWII Code Breakers

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    Published:  November 12, 2018

    In recognition of Veterans Day on November 11, the Daily Shot honors Wellesley’s unsung heroines of World War II, students recruited to help crack enemy codes.

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