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  • Illustration of two Black students in a cozy dorm room, talking while sitting on beds with matching bedspreads
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    We explore the paths from first-year roommates to lifelong friends through the stories of alum roomies across the decades.

  • A collage of an open book with various images coming out of it: a Wellesley lamppost, a Black hand with a ballot, a baby with an arm oustretched, a strand of DNA
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    From how to fix democracy with math to what twins teach us about improving humanity, Wellesley professors are tackling timely topics in recent books.

  • An illustration depicts a woman seated at a computer looking out at a beautiful landscape.
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    Around the world, people are retiring later. How do you decide when it’s time? And what comes next? We talked to Wellesley experts to find out what they are thinking.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.’”

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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.