Congrats to all the @wellesley.edu WCW interns, research assistants, and admin assistants who presented their research at the 2026 Ruhlman Conference, a communal event where Wellesley students have an opportunity to present their research work to a wide audience. [1/5] #womeninstem #edusky #phdsky

A little rain might have precluded the antique cars, but it couldn’t stop our 1s and 6s from having a blast at the annual Alumnae Parade last Sunday! 📸 Kelly Davidson

On May 2, Wellesley held “Imagining the Future: AI and the Liberal Arts,” a daylong event hosted May 2 by the Wagner Centers for Wellesley in the World, the Lulu Chow Wang ’66 Center for Career Education, and the AI Working Group. www.wellesley.edu/news/imagini...

What happens when large numbers of people “exit” their country due to political oppression? How does their absence change the culture? A new book by Professor Chipo Dendere examines how political regimes are shaped by death, diversion, and departure of voters. www.wellesley.edu/news/how-to-...

In a commencement speech at Wellesley College, pioneering educator Ruth J. Simmons—a longtime champion of the power of education to transform lives—urged colleges to continue to create spaces where young people can develop freely, through “unfettered learning and authentic self-expression.”

“To me, art exists on a continuum; it is culture,” said fine art collector Charlotte Newman ’04. “We put fine art on a pedestal, but I think that is almost to its detriment. We begin engaging art not through acquisition, but through seeing.” www.yahoo.com/entertainmen... 📸 Yahoo!

Join us for our FREE Virtual Summer Digital Wellbeing & AI Literacy Workshop! This experience is designed specifically for middle school girls and allies to learn how to build a positive online presence and support themselves and others in AI-filled social media spaces. #womeninstem #devpsy [1/3]

This academic year, Whitin Observatory celebrates its 125th anniversary, a milestone that honors not only a historic building, but generations of Wellesley students who found their place in the universe by looking up from Observatory Hill. www.wellesley.edu/news/a-place...

Meet our 2025-2026 interns! At the start of the academic year, seven @wellesley.edu students began internships through our Class of 1967 Internship Program, established by generous gifts from Wellesley College alumni and friends of WCW. #womeninstem #edusky #phdsky #socsky #gendersky [1/3]

We are currently recruiting @wellesley.edu students for the 2026-2027 Class of 1967 Internship Program! More info here: www.wcwonline.org/About-us-Ext... #womeninstem #edusky #phdsky #socsky #gendersky [3/3]

Chair of the French, Francophone & Italian Studies Department Sara Kippur joined the Lost Ladies of Lit podcast to discuss the glittering life and literary merits of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, an often-overlooked 20th-century figure. www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/294-...

Jade Kuan ’26 is one of only 39 students from across the U.S. to receive a 2026 Watson Fellowship. The award will allow Kuan to travel around the world to explore how people living with chronic and invisible conditions build networks of care outside traditional medicine. Congrats, Jade!

Aayah Osman ’27, Edylene Altidor ’27, and Emily Milfort ’27 have been named recipients of the 2025–27 Obama-Chesky Voyagers Scholarship for Public Service! www.wellesley.edu/news/three-w...

The Wellesley Community Fund supports creative projects produced by members of the Wellesley community that document, honor, and interrogate Wellesley’s past and present. www.wellesley.edu/news/telling...

We are currently recruiting @wellesley.edu students for the Class of 1967 Internship Program at the Wellesley Centers for Women! The program is open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Wellesley College. Interns work 8 to 10 hours per week throughout the 2026-27 academic year. [1/2]

The Diplomat’s Toolbox Crisis Simulation gives students a taste of decision-making under pressure. www.wellesley.edu/news/high-st...

Have you ever wondered about the history of foreign languages at Wellesley? In this project, Alex Butulis ’27, Freya Dogic ’28, and Marilla Malone ’28 compiled historical material & narratives about the foreign language curricula throughout Wellesley’s history: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/...

Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs Yuhua Ding talks about “The Immortal Magu: A Sixteenth-Century Chinese Painting Up Close,” which is currently on display at The Davis Museum until May 24. Read more from SamPan: www.sampan.org/post/once-in...

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Congratulations to chemistry and mathematics major Vivian Long ’27 and neuroscience major Tongtong Ye ’27, who both received 2026 Goldwater Scholarships! The awards support talented college sophomores & juniors who aspire to become the nation’s next generation of STEM researchers.

Coming up Wed, April 22 - An American in Italy: Francesca Alexander 1837-1917 A talk by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, @wellesley.edu Host: Keats Shelley House, Rome Admission is free but booking is required ksh.roma.it/events/ameri...

Congratulations to Reinaldo Moya, associate professor of music, who was recently awarded a prestigious 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship! Read more about his plans for the fellowship: www.wellesley.edu/news/reinald...

In March, students & faculty from Wellesley College, including Treya Pember ’25, Rosario Avila ’28, Anna Stone Ewing ’28, and Whitin Observatory Manager Jonathan Kemp, visited Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, stopping at overlooks to measure the darkness of the sky. cardinalnews.org/2026/03/31/p...

“I knew that I wanted to find a way to give back to a place that had already given so much to me,” said Alexis Griffin Bonhomme ’15. And she did just that. www.wellesley.edu/news/this-is...

Julia Pekowitz ’27 and her teammates competed last week in Bismarck, North Dakota at the Under 21 USA Curling Nationals Championship. Team Pekowitz came away from the week winning gold and Julia and team will be Team USA at the 2027 Junior Worlds in February. Congrats, Julia! 🥌

More than half of U.S. teens use chatbots to answer questions and help with schoolwork. Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing research lab, runs digital media workshops for teens: “Some of these teens can teach the adults a thing or two about AI.” https://bit.ly/4smpfNe

🎧 Kiss 95.1 FM in Charlotte, North Carolina featured a segment on American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s new book on Bad Bunny and their Bad Bunny syllabus. Read more: https://bit.ly/48kCjvf 📸 Frazer Harrison via Getty Images

In this Governing op-ed, Tamanika Ferguson of @wellesley.edu argues that state and local governments should create required, paid, voting seats for formerly incarcerated women on the bodies that shape jail and prison policy. 👉 Learn more: www.governing.com/policy/what-...

Wellesley Repertory Theatre’s final performance of the play-in-process Lifted, written by Mfoniso Udofia ’06, was presented on campus on March 29. The event was preceded by a reception celebrating 150 years of creativity on campus. 📸 Annielly Camargo

As a part of her MITEI Energy Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) appointment, Janina Shivdasani ’26 analyzed climate and energy research conducted at MIT and then translated those findings into something digestible for an audience outside of academia. https://bit.ly/4maOCju

Pioneering educator Ruth J. Simmons will deliver the address at Wellesley College’s 148th commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15. Throughout her distinguished career, Simmons has championed the value of higher education and the importance of expanding opportunities for all students.

Wellesley is known for producing secretaries of state and global ambassadors, but the College is less known for its role in educating Deaf women who have gone on to be top academic researchers in their fields. Read more: https://bit.ly/4s16oXL ✍️ Chaewon Han ’29

Iris Zhan ’27 writes for the Swellesley Report about the debut of American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s book “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.” Read more: https://bit.ly/47YWK0y

Students who choose to go to Wellesley know the College offers a world-class education, a serene campus, and a powerful alum network. But it also provides many perks and amenities they may not have heard about, such as free laundry and a lifetime of career advice. www.wellesley.edu/news/from-la...

In the Conversation, Stephen Chen, associate professor of psychology, writes that the ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi can inspire us to shift our focus from competition to contentment. Read more: https://bit.ly/4rHSppy 📸 Getty Images

The Conversation asked five scholars from Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya and Ethiopia to answer the question: Is the spike in oil prices hurting your country’s economy? Tsegay Tekleselassie, Visiting Lecturer in Economics, shared his thoughts on Ethiopia: Read more: https://bit.ly/40Ixnw8

“What does the Earth ask of us—not what more we can take, but what are we asked to give?” Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist, bestselling author, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, posed this question to a packed audience at a March 8 event at Wellesley. https://bit.ly/474W6OQ

“We need to mandate including [formerly incarcerated women] on the bodies that shape jails, prisons, parole, sentencing and reentry,” writes Tamanika Ferguson, a research scholar in Wellesley’s department of women's and gender studies. https://bit.ly/3PaTXuQ

“Because I grew up [Bangladesh], right in the middle of the smoggy, light-polluted city, I do not remember seeing any star,” says Lamiya Mowla ’13, assistant professor of astronomy. That changed when she arrived at Wellesley. https://magazine.wellesley.edu/issues/winter-2026/eyes-on-the-sky

Wellesley has long-standing connections to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Today, three Wellesley grads are among those leading changes at the MFA—curators Claire Howard ’05, Erica Hirshler ’79, and Christina Yu Yu ’02. https://magazine.wellesley.edu/issues/winter-2026/the-curators-circle

The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) and the Women’s Foundation of Massachusetts (WFMA) are pleased to announce their inaugural report on the Status of Women & Girls in Massachusetts. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/47mJO4o

Africana studies professor @kcarterjackson.bsky.social said she’s seen Underground Railroad hiding spots in attics, in cellars, and beneath false floors, but prior to now, she’s never seen one inside a drawer... Read more from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4b1pMNI

Next week, 3/10 at 12PM — "To Feel Well Late in Life." Part of Anthropology's Spring Colloquium Series. Presented by Aalyia Sadruddin, Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at @wellesley.edu. Learn more and explore other talks in this series:

Sick of the freezing temperatures? Tired from sledding or shoveling? Then take some time to curl up with a cup of hot cocoa and a recent book by a member of Wellesley’s faculty! https://www.wellesley.edu/news/a-dozen-new-books-by-wellesley-faculty

As fertility rates plummet in much of the world, Wellesley experts explain why it’s happening and what might be done to address it, and alums tell their own stories about their winding paths to becoming parents—or not. https://magazine.wellesley.edu/issues/winter-2026/where-are-the-babies

Thanks to cross-registration programs, Wellesley students can take classes at several of the College’s neighboring institutions: MIT, Babson College, Olin College of Engineering, and Brandeis University. Read more from Chaewon Han ’29: https://www.wellesley.edu/news/education-rooted-in-community

On March 3, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Associate Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College, and her co-author Vanessa Díaz will be at Harvard Book Store for a discussion of their new book: https://www.harvard.com/event/diaz-rideau

The Department of Religious Studies at @wellesley.edu invites applications for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in #Religion in the Americas, beginning in fall, 2026. ➡️ Indigenous religious cultures, Christianities, Black & Diasporic religions. Apply by March 9. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w...

A poet and a mathematician from @wellesley.edu in the same poli sci section at Harvard Book Store. @dchiasso.bsky.social

Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Linda Charmaraman talked to PBS about a three-year study that found social media use did not predict teens’ anxiety or depression. https://www.pbs.org/video/25000-teens-3-years-groundbreaking-social-media-and-mental-health-study-tuljeq/