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 DJ speaks into a microphone at WZLY, the country's first all-women college radio station,
92

WZLY, 91.5 FM

  • Social Life
11

Guild of Carillonneurs

  • Social Life
58

The Curriculum

  • Academic Life
Grid List
86

The micro-MRI accessory

  • Academic Life
13

First-year seminars

  • Academic Life
51

Pendleton West and the Jewett Arts Center

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

Couch to 5K

  • Athletics
Seniors clap and cheer during graduation
99

Our alumnae

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

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

  • Academic Life
97

The Albright Institute

  • Resources
A group of Wellesley College students walk with the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center in the background
87

Lulu!

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

Research

  • Resources
16

Harambee House

  • Social Life
74

The Hive

  • Resources
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
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
24

Malinda Lo ’96

  • Alumnae
43

WHACK

  • Social Life
35

Acorns

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

The Jewett Arts Center

  • Academic Life
55

Ministrare Council

  • Resources
79

Vivian Pinn

  • Alumnae
Four college students laugh on a bench in downtown Wellesley
57

Wellesley, the town

  • Off Campus
59

What happens after Wellesley

  • Resources
23

Schneider Board of Governors (SBOG)

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

Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing

  • Academic Life
39

House Council

  • Social Life
8

Culture shows

  • Social Life
2

The campus

  • Campus
A group of students walk up a steps in Wellesley College's Green Hall
42

The surprisingly painless (and free!) process of applying

  • Admission and Financial Aid
36

Boston

  • Off Campus
Wellesley College student, Lilly Armstrong, and a group of friends, pose fora photo cheering on Lilly's dad who is running the Boston Marathon
77

The Boston Marathon

  • Social Life
Two Wellesley College students work in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
96

The HCI Lab

  • Resources
76

Elizabeth Ferrer and Sandra Riaño #timeisacircle

  • Alumnae
Two Wellesley College students play drums as part of Yanvalou Drum & Dance Ensemble, a group that performs the folkloric music and dance of Africa
94

Yanvalou

  • Social Life
A Wellesley College student leads a tour of two other students through the Davis Museum, explaining an art installation
81

The Davis Museum and Cultural Center

  • Campus
A Wellesley College student DJ speaks into a microphone at WZLY, the country's first all-women college radio station,
92

WZLY, 91.5 FM

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

Science Hill

  • Campus
53

Lake Day

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

Limitless educational opportunities from Wellesley (and friends!)

  • Academic Life
98

Liz Miranda’s call to action

  • Alumnae
Two Wellesley College students take a selfie in front of Diana Champman Walsh Alumnae Hall
90

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

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

The faculty

  • Resources
10

Kwan Kew Lai ’74

  • Alumnae
40

Office of Intercultural Education

  • Resources
15

Wellesley Career Education

  • Resources
Two students sit with their laptops in the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center
46

The Camellia Student Leadership Awards

  • Social Life
29

English and Creative Writing Department

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

The Honor Code

  • Academic Life
22

Duck Day

  • Social Life
Wellesley College's 14th President, Paula A. Johnson orders a sandwich in the student-run cafe, El Table
3

President Paula Johnson

  • Resources
66

Anna Rios, doing it anyway.

  • Alumnae
14

Flower Sunday

  • Social Life
Two college students walk through Wellesley College academic quad
56

Financial Aid

  • Admission and Financial Aid
Five Wellesley College students pose for a photo in front of blue canoes in a boat house
4

The importance of belonging

  • Social Life
38

Vicky Tsai ’00, choosing happiness

  • Alumnae
A mass of Wellesley College students enjoy a spring concert outside
100

The pluralistic, polyphonic, unclassifiable mass of humanity that is our student body.

  • Social Life
Students explore the Global Flora Collection at the Wellesley College Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouses
31

Clubs

  • Social Life
Kavi Thennakoon, Wellesley College alumna, poses for a photo while smiling
44

Kavindya Thennakoon ’19, building a brighter world

  • Alumnae
58

The Curriculum

  • Academic Life
Two wooden benches, constructed by students as part of The Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative, overlook Severance Green
88

The Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative

  • Campus
64

The Botanistas!

  • Social Life
Wellesley College field hockey player, Arielle Mitropolis, celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal.
68

Arielle Mitropoulos, feeling confident

  • Alumnae
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
An iron railing decorated with Wellesley
93

The Schiff Fellows

  • Academic Life
33

The residential experience, so like a fuzzy sweater

  • Social Life
78

LGBTQ+ Programs & Services

  • Resources
Books sit on a table in the Wellesley Clapp Library
49

Internships (funded!)

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

The Whitin Observatory

  • Campus
A Wellesley College student kneels, petting a certified service dog during a Paws for Wellness study break
73

Paws for Wellness

  • Social Life
Wellesley College student stands next to her research poster
75

Everything that is named

  • Campus
Wellesley College alumna, Serenity Hughes, smiles for a portrait, wearing a pink blazer
83

Serenity Hughes, finding a family

  • Alumnae
Person holding cone of blue ice cream.
5

Ice cream (and gelato)

  • Social Life
11

Guild of Carillonneurs

  • Social Life
21

Traying!

  • Social Life
32

El Table

  • Social Life
12

Majors

  • Academic Life
Wellesley College volleyball team player hits a volleyball across the net to the opposing team
67

Athletics

  • Athletics
72

The Wellesley-Brandeis Orchestra

  • Off Campus
Wellesley College Crew team poses for a photo after winning the NCAA DIII National Rowing Championship
95

Blue Crew

  • Athletics
71

The Knapp Media and Technology Center

  • Campus
19

The Whiptails

  • Athletics
27

Multifaith Center

  • Campus
Wellesley College student reads a copy of The Winter's tale by Shakespeare in a classroom
34

24-Hour Shakes

  • Social Life
37

Hillary Rodham Clinton ’69

  • Alumnae
50

Ophelia Dahl ’94, addressing the problem

  • Alumnae
25

Impressive-sounding (and -acting!) scientific equipment

  • Resources
18

Traditions

  • Social Life
7

The liberal arts & sciences

  • Academic Life
85

The Wellesley Debates

  • Academic Life
45

Rocío Ortega ’16, doing heroic things

  • Alumnae
41

Slater International Center

  • Resources
20

Mariana and Alberta in Cuba

  • Academic Life
47

Study abroad

  • Off Campus
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 student athletes run on a sports field with the Wellesley logo
69

The playing fields

  • Athletics
28

Our intentional endowment

  • Resources
80

More nearby cultural attractions than you can see in a year

  • Resources
Two students browse for books in the Wellesley College Clapp Library
52

Libraries

  • Resources
9

Malika Jeffries-EL ’96, doing the hard work

  • Alumnae
84

The Wellesley Centers for Women

  • Campus
54

Dolores Arredondo, protecting democracy

  • Alumnae
6

The best reasons to cancel classes!

  • Academic Life

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