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For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.

My friends, and some of my professors, even, are not on campus with me anymore. But the trees are.

Jocelyn Benson '99, Michigan’s secretary of state, fought to restore trust in an election system Trump attacked, only to see it lead to the restoration of a man and a movement that seemed the opposite of almost everything she believes in. As disappointed as she might have been by the national result, her faith in democracy compelled her to accept it. “The will of the people will stand,” she said. “Whatever it is.”

4B is a radical feminist movement that started in South Korea and encourages the rejection of heterosexual dating, marriage and sex, as well as childbirth. According to Katharine Moon, a political science professor emerita at Wellesley College, the biggest difference between budding ideas for what the 4B movement could look like in the United States and what has already existed in South Korea is the centrality of marriage.

The Boston Globe gives an outstanding review of the first play in The Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06: "It‘s impossible to watch 'Sojourners' without thinking of the late August Wilson, who had a strong working relationship with the Huntington... Wilson’s goal was to capture the complexity and variety of the Black experience. I think he’d find a lot to admire in 'Sojourners,' and in Udofia."

The Ufot Family Cycle is a story of family, spanning generations, cultures and continents, and a production bringing together many partners, including greater Boston theater companies and the Prior Performance Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross. And it begins with the pen and life experience of Mfoniso Udofia ’06, award-winning playwright, first-generation Nigerian-American raised in the Worcester area.

Wellesley professors and students contribute to a first-of-its-kind digital repository for annotated philosophical works.

At the intersection of education and democracy, college presidents are leading efforts to empower the next generation of engaged citizens... This fall, Wellesley College will offer all sophomores a yearlong program focused on active citizenship and global challenges through the College’s new Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy.

Democrat Emily Randall ’08 won her bid for Washington’s 6th Congressional District, making history as the first woman and openly LGBTQ person elected to represent the district in Congress.