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When a family from Syria moved in next door to Kate Erickson ’05 in L.A., members of the Wellesley community from around the world reached out to make them feel welcome in the United States.

A thoughtful redesign of the Davis Museum doubles the number of objects on display and beautifully highlights the complex meaning and history of the art.

Hundreds of alumnae have worked in museums around the world. We spoke with two Wellesley curators about their lives, art, and why museums matter, now more than ever.

As senior curator of the Met’s incomparable museum of medieval art, Barbara Drake Boehm ’76 seeks to bring a lost world vividly to life.

What hubris to think that on this very day I could simply walk into the German Federal Archives and learn the history of my grandparents in relation to World War II. My grandmother’s voice echoed in my thoughts: “This history doesn’t belong to you, and you will never understand it.”

Women who talk too high get labeled shrill or childish. If they speak with deep voices, it’s lecturing or hectoring. What’s a woman to do? The Wellesley community weighs in.

Alumnae in politics discuss what advances—or hinders—the march toward gender parity in the political arena.

The weeks following Nov. 8, 2016, drew the campus together, brought shared values to the fore, and provided a host of educational moments—drawing on liberal-arts traditions of discussion and debate.

The legendary Wellesley Scream Tunnel might have been surpassed by the rapturous cheers that greeted President Paula A. Johnson—Wellesley’s 14th president and the first African-American to head the College—on Sept. 30 as she processed down the aisle of the vast tent on Severance Green.