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 raises her hand in a seminar class while professor looks on](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Calderwood20Seminars20in20Public20Wriring.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141229&s=c3479ab7a2ad578d8fa2a4e36a3a7c49)
![Two Wellesley College students work on a science experiment in a labratory](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Science20Hill.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141227&s=5804cddb6a00a3d17d689712456dfffb)
![Wellesley College's 14th President, Paula A. Johnson orders a sandwich in the student-run cafe, El Table](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Paula20Johnson.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141223&s=72beedd853d0e5124b6b778ca165931d)
![Wellesley College field hockey player, Arielle Mitropolis, celebrates with her teammates after scoring a goal.](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Arielle20Mitropolis2C20Playing20Fields2028Julia20Monaco29.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141193&s=77ae01537d0087f49defad6b4d2fe4ed)
![Two students sit at their laptops that are covered with decorative stickers](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/admission20process.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141238&s=75def978d6e09d1d5371d903995ac070)
![Two college students walk through Wellesley College academic quad](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Financial20Aid.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141210&s=8109c3fe3333f526f685a8b954c06e44)
![Wellesley College student reads a copy of The Winter's tale by Shakespeare in a classroom](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/2420Hour20Shakes.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141191&s=8ad42e6062da324284ff330d1563ccb8)
![Two students browse for books in the Wellesley College Clapp Library](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Libraries.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141216&s=faf7041f251124adce3032c7970e4a9b)
![A Wellesley College student leads a tour of two other students through the Davis Museum, explaining an art installation](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Davis20Museum.png?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141229&s=cc0689980f4b3f1c2234dbdf6a73eec2)
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![A group of students walk up a steps in Wellesley College's Green Hall](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Painless20process.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141221&s=dd8ced277903146bac1e078c566dabfd)
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![A still photo of a button adorned with hearts that reads "Wellesley is Inspiring"](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Honor20Code_0.jpg?w=600&h=337.37704918033&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141213&s=6681cdc94b114a6348f504f3731b913a)
![Wellesley College student stands next to her research poster](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Everything20that20is20Named2C20Research.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141209&s=39fd370b568cc3cebc864b4b9c711d9d)
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![Five Wellesley College students pose for a photo in front of blue canoes in a boat house](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Diversity20and20Inclusion.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5111&fp-y=0.293&dm=1709141207&s=8b8b34139ec2aedfaa01398ec68a9ac9)
![Two Wellesley College students play drums as part of Yanvalou Drum & Dance Ensemble, a group that performs the folkloric music and dance of Africa](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/wellesley20yanvalou.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141243&s=1440edaafcdc1dd5362e9e49c751c922)
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![A Wellesley College student raises her hand in a seminar class while professor looks on](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Calderwood20Seminars20in20Public20Wriring.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141229&s=c3479ab7a2ad578d8fa2a4e36a3a7c49)
![Wellesley College Crew team poses for a photo after winning the NCAA DIII National Rowing Championship](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/wellesley20blue20crew.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141243&s=6cd47f3bc90a32664b40636a50127c42)
![Wellesley College student, Lilly Armstrong, and a group of friends, pose fora photo cheering on Lilly's dad who is running the Boston Marathon](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Boston20Marathon.png?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141228&s=ac7e94373301acdd00611fd01cf2d58b)
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![Four college students laugh on a bench in downtown Wellesley](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Town20of20Wellesley.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141232&s=3f565b8a173fb09988d5ac14d41c7187)
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![Wellesley College professor looks at sample in a lab science](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Faculty.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141230&s=7d16382f8c991d1469140c95ef567fe0)
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![Students explore the Global Flora Collection at the Wellesley College Margaret C. Ferguson Greenhouses](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Clubs2028129.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141204&s=2053b155cc6de1e3f354ecf2a5487faf)
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![A Wellesley College student with cleats and Wonder Woman stockings on runs across a green playing field](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Couch20to205K_0.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141205&s=d8f8720fbef93dd2bf9389a88c161d97)
![A Wellesley College student DJ speaks into a microphone at WZLY, the country's first all-women college radio station,](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/WZLY2091.520FM.jpg?w=960&h=539.80327868852&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141235&s=bbd761ea801fa3cf34fd4aa3b03cff78)
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![Two Wellesley College students work on their laptops in Jewett](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Jewett.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141215&s=8f5da8cc4526fe7b56c822684341a61d)
![Books sit on a table in the Wellesley Clapp Library](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Internships.jpg?w=600&h=337.37704918033&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141214&s=43f689cd7517df092ece48e515e77948)
![A group of Wellesley College students walk with the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center in the background](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Lulu.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141218&s=5c9af51bf3ded1bd4ba9cb9a1609efd5)
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![Students explore artifacts during and outside class for Adam Van Arsdale’s forensic anthropology class](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Forensic20Anthropology.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141212&s=a798346b5e583325d4982b3e45dd78cd)
![Wellesley College volleyball team player hits a volleyball across the net to the opposing team](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Athletics.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141193&s=0290886d59f4bfd7d826bd5cac7ccc75)
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![Two Wellesley College students work on a science experiment in a labratory](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Science20Hill.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141227&s=5804cddb6a00a3d17d689712456dfffb)
![Wellesley students use a telescope in the Whitin Observatory](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Whitin20Observatory.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141233&s=aa1ea041ea07514c591ee9587076f656)
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![A Wellesley College student works on a mixed-media project in a new art studio within Jewetts Arts Center](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/limitlessness.jpg?w=900&h=506.06557377049&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141241&s=b06829e8e182e976ed833c42faa2859d)
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![A mass of Wellesley College students enjoy a spring concert outside](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/student20body.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141242&s=a672e890ab7c317243e3ba1e34ef4bf2)
![Two Wellesley College students take a selfie in front of Diana Champman Walsh Alumnae Hall](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Diana20Chapman20Walsh20Alumnae20Hall.png?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141206&s=a31f77a67087f4b34696fe9af851e797)
![Wellesley College alumna, Serenity Hughes, smiles for a portrait, wearing a pink blazer](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Serenity20Hughes.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141228&s=b899d3fb38668dbc179ca36792e5b726)
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![A Wellesley College student kneels, petting a certified service dog during a Paws for Wellness study break](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Paws20for20Wellness.png?w=869.65014577259&h=489&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141224&s=514a159e0a16c056a7d3f83957bb9af1)
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![Angela C. Carpenter, Associate Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College, talks with a student](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/angela20carpenter20invented20language20class.jpg?w=892.76967930029&h=502&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141239&s=1dda6ce58cc2b10e16c674a12c6d40db)
![Two students sit with their laptops in the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Camellia.jpg?w=600&h=337.37704918033&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141194&s=ec98e011004ae040f2313c92be584c1f)
![Two wooden benches, constructed by students as part of The Paulson Ecology of Place Initiative, overlook Severance Green](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/The20Paulson20Ecology20of20Place20Initiative.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141231&s=fbcc9a38110caa2abf24b2afd49613e2)
![A Wellesley College student holds out her hands in front of her, covered in dyed sand](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/research.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141242&s=bdd595860744215905970ba2cd13fe6f)
![Two Wellesley College students work in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/HCI20Lab.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141212&s=006884e41d5536cceacd713e4414f1cd)
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![Wellesley student athletes run on a sports field with the Wellesley logo](https://wellesley-college.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/w100/Playing20Fields.jpg?w=867.87172011662&h=488&q=90&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1709141226&s=688626989471310c7bbde4a94664934f)
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