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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.

Seven students and alums from Wellesley were selected for Fulbright awards for academic year 2024-25

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.

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.

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.”

‘The Grove’ expands the Ufot Family Cycle with a humane and moving story. Playwright Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, who grew up in Southbridge, Mass., has dedicated her play to “the young woman I once was.”