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The Pinanski Teaching Prize
- Academic Life
![Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Irene Mata, speaks to her classroom](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Pinanski.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5778&fp-y=0.3802&dm=1709141225&s=374ccaff70ca69c4181137119c6cea44)
Annual teaching awards in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Recent winners include a music professor who spends long hours helping students bridge the gap between music and technology; a political science professor who highlights the role of women in political history and inspires students to build a better political future; and an astronomy professor who gives students high-level engineering challenges—and the skills, the confidence, and the collaborative spirit to meet them.
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![A Wellesley College student works on a mixed-media project in a new art studio within Jewetts Arts Center](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/limitlessness.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141241&s=b06829e8e182e976ed833c42faa2859d)