Daily Shot Gallery

Game of Thrones character Jamie Lanister reaches from a crowd of peasants as he fights to break through.

Cord Whitaker, assistant professor of English at Wellesley, reflects on the peasantry in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” compared with the history of the Middle Ages, and on how that history has been misinterpreted by white nationalists.

A line of students walk though the basement of the science building wearing purple gloves and holding brass microscopes.

Wellesley’s collection of antique brass microscopes, which is now moving to President Johnson’s office, offers a window into the College’s pioneering science curriculum.

Students on Severance Green enjoy the outdoors in spring.

Wellesley SMiLES and the Wellness Outreach Collaborative team up to provide each residence hall with its own collection of outdoor games and activities.

Students work under a hood in a lab at Wellesley.

Wellesley alumnae are awarded more science and engineering doctorates than female graduates of any other liberal arts college in the nation, according to the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and receive among the highest number of National Science Foundation grants.

A student and staff member sit in a recording studio, talking.

Tim Singleton, Wellesley’s assistant director of construction, talks with Rinako Sonobe ’20, an architecture major with a minor in math, about the steps Wellesley is taking to increase workforce diversity in construction and design in Massachusetts’ higher education community.

Students dressed in yellow sing inside the chapel

Students marked the end of the 2018–2019 academic year with the 120-year-old Wellesley tradition of stepsinging.

Two students look down on a section of the science center that was decorated in yellow streamers.

Happy last day of classes! Following one of Wellesley’s more recent traditions, the yellow class of 2019 took to the Science Center, academic departments, and other popular locations to leave one last splash of spirit.

Students of Beijing Normal University returning to the university on May 7, 1918, after being arrested for their involvement a

Mingwei Song, associate professor of Chinese at Wellesley, explains the significance of the student-led protests in China in 1919 that became known as the May Fourth Movement.

A group of students pose for a photo at the Camellia Leadership Awards.

The Camellia Student Leadership Awards, named for the tree given to Wellesley by the College’s founders, Henry and Pauline Durant, celebrate individual and collective leadership initiatives across campus and in the broader community.

Students walk on a pathway framed by a Wellesley lamp post and pink, blooming trees.

Wellesley College students walk through a campus in bloom on a sunny May day after enduring record amounts of rain in April.

As a 2019 Goldwater scholar, Ella Mullikin ’20 will continue to work toward her career goal of a dual-title PhD in biochemistry and astrobiology, with tuition support from the Goldwater Foundation.

Members of the accessibility and disability resources team sit around a table.

Wellesley College has enhanced its accessibility and disability services with a new name, additional staff, facilities upgrades, and a renewed mission that focuses on a highly personal approach to students who need resources and support.

The site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.

This year’s Stanford Calderwood Prizes in Public Writing were awarded to Sydney Hopper ’19 (humanities) for her paper on transcendentalist literature and tourism in Massachusetts and Ali Saueressig ’19 (social sciences) for her paper on education in rural Minnesota.

Five students speak into microphones at the beginning of the Ruhlman Conference.

A celebration of student achievement during the past semester, the Ruhlman Conference will feature over 300 student presentations on their projects and research with Wellesley faculty.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga's holds a press conference.

On May 1, Emperor Akihito of Japan will abdicate the Chrysanthemum Throne, marking almost two centuries since an emperor of Japan has stepped down. His son, Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan, will take his place. Reika Ishii ’20 explains the importance of the new imperial era in Japan.

Three members of the archives and special collections staff look at a book.

Wellesley alumnae and staff who work in library and archival services meet with students interested in learning about the field.

Six students stand in front of an art installation that depicts the inside of the MBTA's Red Line.

Students in Wellesley’s Dynamic Interface Design class built a multimedia installation in Pendleton West inspired by #PoetryontheT, showcasing poems members of the Wellesley community wrote for National Poetry Month.

The Harambee Singers revive a choral tradition at Wellesley that started with the Ethos Choir.

Tourists take photos of the Notre Dame cathedral after the April 2019 fire.

Wellesley professor and medievalist Cord Whitaker talks about the history and symbolism of Notre Dame and, in the wake of the destructive April 15 fire, how it might be rebuilt for modern times.

Student athletes pose hugging large cutouts of athletic director

A little rain didn’t stop the Wellesley community from honoring Bridget Belgiovine, the retiring director of athletics and chair of PERA, and celebrating the final days of the 2018–19 season at a community tailgate party.

Student Han Qiao ’19 creates a catalogue of campus bird population as a part of the Paulson Initiative.

Two students stand outside a building in Oxford, England.

Biochemistry major Hannah Jacobs ’19 recently traveled to Oxford University to connect in person with a mentor she met on The Wellesley Hive, the College’s digital networking platform.

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.