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Seniors create community in their advanced studio art seminar

Professor Adam van Arsdale reflects on researchers precisely dating Lapedo child, Neanderthal-Human hybrid, and how the process of replacement of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens may have played out.

Professor emeritus of Africana studies Selwyn Cudjoe reflects on the People's National Movement (PNM) in Trinidad and Tobago and their “obtuse rationalizations.”

During her 12 years at Salesforce, Amy Weaver ’89 made the rare jump from chief legal officer to CFO of the $37 billion tech company. Now, she is making another leap—to become CEO of Direct Relief.

Art professor emerita Bunny Harvey’s paintings have a “level of intensity that invites the viewer to engage, connect and discover a unity with the natural world beyond the scope of spoken narrative.”

Ivan Kurilla, U.S.-Russia relations scholar at Wellesley, said Russian/Soviet rulers long saw the U.S. as a nation worth emulating — whether in its economic prowess or its swagger on the world stage.

More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID. Why is there no national day to remember them? History professor Nina Tumarkin says: “We’re bad at memorializing; we’re bad at death to begin with.”

The US now has 24 medium-and heavy-duty EV manufacturing facilities, with nearly $9 billion in investments and almost 34,000 employees, according to The Big Green Machine tracker by environmental studies professor Jay Turner.

The Fulbright Program, the U.S. State Department’s top exchange program, has supported 400,000+ participants since 1946. Wellesley College was a top producer of Fulbright U.S. scholars in 2024-25.