The Wellesley 100

A constantly evolving list of 100 marvelous things about Wellesley, including an invented language class, particle physics, and many women who permanently alter, for the better, the way the world works.

A Wellesley College student with cleats and Wonder Woman stockings on runs across a green playing field
63

Couch to 5K

  • Athletics
Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Irene Mata, speaks to her classroom
65

The Pinanski Teaching Prize

  • Academic Life
40

Visiting

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6

Campus-wide brain parties!

  • Academic Life
A still photo of a button adorned with hearts that reads "Wellesley is Inspiring"
17

The Honor Code

  • Academic Life
Students explore artifacts during and outside class for Adam Van Arsdale’s forensic anthropology class
30

Adam Van Arsdale’s forensic anthropology class

  • Academic Life
84

The Wellesley Centers for Women

  • Campus
58

The Curriculum

  • Academic Life
12

Majors

  • Academic Life
Wellesley College professor looks at sample in a lab science
1

The faculty

  • Resources
7

The liberal arts & sciences

  • Academic Life
A Wellesley College student works on a mixed-media project in a new art studio within Jewetts Arts Center
26

The limitlessness of educational options

  • Academic Life
Diego Arciniegas, Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, engages with a student who preforms on stage during a Theatre Studies class.
89

Highly personalized (and therefore effective) letters of recommendation.

  • Resources
Wellesley students use a telescope in the Whitin Observatory
60

The Whitin Observatory

  • Campus
Two Wellesley College students work on a science experiment in a labratory
70

Science Hill

  • Campus
51

Pendleton West

  • Campus
13

The First-Year Seminar

  • Academic Life
Two Wellesley College students work on their laptops in Jewett
61

The Jewett Arts Center

  • Academic Life
29

The English and Creative Writing Department

  • Academic Life
An iron railing decorated with Wellesley
93

The Schiff Fellows

  • Academic Life
86

The micro-MRI accessory

  • Academic Life
20

Mariana and Alberta in Cuba

  • Academic Life
11

The neuroscience major

  • Academic Life
A Wellesley College student sits and talks with her professor
82

Required writing courses—wait! stay with us!—that everyone loves.

  • Academic Life
Angela C. Carpenter, Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College, talks with a student
62

Angela Carpenter’s invented language class

  • Academic Life
85

The Wellesley Debates

  • Academic Life
Barbara Morris Caspersen Associate Professor of Humanities and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Irene Mata, speaks to her classroom
65

The Pinanski Teaching Prize

  • Academic Life
A Wellesley College student raises her hand in a seminar class while professor looks on
48

The Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing

  • Academic Life
A Wellesley College student holds out her hands in front of her, covered in dyed sand
91

Research

  • Resources

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