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Who, in their postmenopausal right mind, would choose to serve once more in a role they had held fresh out of college? Especially when the position is located on the other side of the planet?

Leaders and activists from around the world gathered at Wellesley on April 6 to grapple with important global questions at the “Renewing Democracy: Women Leading the Way” summit.

Writer Bina Shah ’93 explores how Wellesley has been portrayed in literature—commercial, literary, genre, and the perennial favorite, the campus novel/coming-of-age story.

A t the end of 2023, a new electric power system quietly came online in Hawai‘i. Unlike its predecessors, this system doesn’t run on coal, natural gas, or fossil fuels of any kind. The Kapolei...

Sometimes, making a decision about what to major in at Wellesley is the art of the unexpected. Take Erika Liu ’15, who double majored in peace and justice studies and French cultural studies. She...

A hunk of metal—technically, part of a hold-down stud frangible nut—from mission STS-120 is affixed to a plaque in the office of retired U.S. Air Force Col. Pam Melroy ’83 at NASA headquarters. During the...

A novelist contemplates the beauty and impermanence of this world as she works to absorb the loss her of father.

Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And —the first retrospective of the acclaimed conceptual artist, cultural critic, and Wellesley ’55 alumna—is the debut exhibition at the newly reopened Davis Museum.

Wellesley faculty and alumnae are on the forefront of shaping how we coexist with AI—a space that has quickly become ripe for innovation, regulation, and deep thinking on ethics.