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  • An illustration of hands of various skin tones cradling flowers, leaves, and grasses
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    One morning last fall, Anna Stine-Uchino ’27 stepped out of Pomeroy Hall to head to class. “The air smelled just like California,” she says. “I said to myself, ‘This is a wildfire that shouldn’t be happening here.’”

  • Illustration of s student wearing a graduation cap walking confidently as a hand of a person wearing a business suit points the way forward
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    The College’s new BEAM initiative focuses on business, entrepreneurship, and money management offerings for students and alumnae

  • Portrait of Mfoniso Udofia ’06 sitting in The Huntington Theatre with the stage behind her
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    Mfoniso Udofia ’06 returns to Massachusetts to launch the Ufot Family Cycle, an ambitious nine-play series about three generations of a Nigerian American family

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    The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and...

  • An illustration depcits the number 50 surrounded by figures of women conducting research, providing child care, and working in Washinhgton, D.C.
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    For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.

  • Cyanotype of a tree trunk
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    My friends, and some of my professors, even, are not on campus with me anymore. But the trees are.

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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?

  • Jocelyn Benson ’99, secretary of state of Michigan, spoke about protecting voters’ rights.
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    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.

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    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.