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Mfoniso Udofia ’06 returns to Massachusetts to launch the Ufot Family Cycle, an ambitious nine-play series about three generations of a Nigerian American family

The College’s new BEAM initiative focuses on business, entrepreneurship, and money management offerings for students and alumnae

One morning last fall, Anna Stine-Uchino ’27 stepped out of Pomeroy Hall to head to class. “The air smelled just like California,” she says. “I said to myself, ‘This is a wildfire that shouldn’t be happening here.’”

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.

Professor Elena Creef spoke on GBH’s Under the Radar about actress Michelle Yeoh: “It’s taken Hollywood this long to finally give her attention and give her the love that she deserves.”

Angela Johnson ’91, board chair of Old North Illuminated, first saw Old North Church in 9th grade. The church and the Commonwealth made an impression, inspiring her to attend college in Massachusetts.

“There’s massive problems in higher ed… we focus on all the wrong ones,” said economist Phillip Levine. “We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.”

Curator Ernestine Fantl Carter ’27, who spent five years at MoMA in the mid-to-late 1930s, achieved landmark accomplishments, especially in terms of industrial, architectural and graphic design.