Schwarzman Scholar Diana Lam ’20 said she had no idea that Wellesley would change her life the way that it has. She hopes “to make a difference in the world and implement Wellesley’s motto”—“Non Ministrari sed Ministrare.”
2024.03.04 Volić voting and the Oscars Literary Hub
Macy Lipkin ’23 is a finalist in NPR’s 10 best college podcasts in America. The podcast follows a 2023 vote that is challenging oil exploration in the Amazon—and also threatening local people's jobs.
Two professors are using an interdisciplinary lens of population genetics and physiology to study the wet meadows on campus where phragmites—a common reed—have become dominant.
2024.02.24 Kurilla Russian history Voice of America News
History has been “used to legitimize the regime essentially since the beginning of Putin's rule,” says Cornille Professor Ivan Kurilla. With the war in Ukraine, it “finally took a central place in the state ideology.”
Activist Pashtana Durrani, scholar-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women, runs underground schools in defiance of the Taliban’s education ban.
2024.01.23 Levine class-based affirmative action The Washington Post
Implementing class-conscious admissions could protect racial diversity on college campuses, says Prof. Phillip Levine. But, unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
2024.02.22 Theran child influencers The New York Times
Clinical psychologist and psychology professor Sally Theran comments on the intersection between underage online content creation and the limits of consent.