June
Dear Wellesley: Caitlin Bailey ’16 Writes from Beijing
Today we kick off a Summer Postcard series featuring letters from students. Caitlin Bailey ’16 is an Albright Fellow who is spending the summer in Beijing.
Naa-Sakle Akuete ’08 Profiled By Fast Company Magazine
Naa-Sakle Akuete ’08, pictured here age 3, with her mother. Akuete recently started a business that would allow her to work closely with her mother and give back to their native Ghana.
Michael Jeffries in the Boston Globe: Rachel Dolezal a Lesson in How Racism Works
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, the activists who started the Black Lives Matter campaign, should be household names, not Rachel Dolezal, according to an op-ed in the Boston Globe by Wellesley's Michael P. Jeffries.
Wellesley Students Give Peace-Building Presentation at The Hague
Students in Catia Confortini’s senior seminar in Peace and Justice Studies recently gave a presentation at the 2015 Women’s Power to Stop War conference, hosted by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in The Hague, Netherlands.
Alumna Receives Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association
Alicia Lopez ’91 received the Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association on June 19. Her mother, Sonia Nieto, received the same award 26 years earlier.
Laura Stevens ’11 Tackles Scientific Mystery in “Nature”
Laura Stevens ’11 co-authored an article in the prestigious scientific journal Nature this month. Her team's research addresses a phenomenon that has been puzzling scientists for years.
Kathryn Lynch Pens Washington Post Op-Ed on The Value of The Humanities
Wellesley's Kathryn Lynch penned an op-ed in the Washington Post exploring the unintended consequences of cuts to humanities programs.
Alumna Awarded Prestigious Short Story Award
Brenda Peynado '06 has been awarded the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Short Story Award, one of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a creative writer.
Wellesley Student Wins Prestigious Journalism Fellowship
Xueying Chen ’16 recently visited media organizations and cultural landmarks in Japan as a Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Fellow.
Wellesley Honors Three Professors with Pinanski Teaching Prize
Wellesley professors Barbara Beltz, Philip Kohl, and Winifred Wood were honored with the Pinanski Teaching Prize during Commencement exercises on Friday. The Pinanski Prize celebrates extraordinary teaching in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Alumnae Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Sarah George ’14, one of five alumnae to win a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, is studying how the formation of the Andes Mountains in northern Peru and Ecuador may have caused the Amazon River to reverse its course.
Sesame Street Improves School Readiness, Educational Outcomes
New research, coauthored by Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and University of Maryland economist Melissa Kearney, found that children who had greater access to Sesame Street in the show’s early days had improved educational outcomes.
A Short Time Remains For The 2015 Participation Challenge
Alumnae, don’t miss your chance to join in the 2015 participation challenge. Just a few days remain to max out the challenge—54 percent participation and $500,000.
Trees That Fall or Are Removed at Wellesley Are Recycled for Other Uses
There are roughly 8,000 trees on campus. When trees are lost to storms, pests or diseases, structural problems, or other reasons, they are recycled for use elsewhere on campus.
Wellesley Student Wins Goldwater Scholarship
Carina Belvin ’16 won a Goldwater Scholarship, which supports outstanding undergraduate students in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering.
Jewett Arts Center Receives Getty Foundation Grant
The Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College was announced as a recipient of a grant through the Getty Foundation’s 2015 Keeping It Modern conservation initiative, which funds "the study of exceptional architecture."
Wellesley MAPS (Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students) Wins Regional Award
Danielle Gore ’15 founded Wellesley’s chapter of the Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students (MAPS) in 2014. The branch recently was named MAP’S Chapter of the Year for the New England region.
TwitterTrails Tracks What’s True, False on Twitter
A tool developed in Wellesley’s Social Informatics Lab enables journalists to quickly examine a claim made on Twitter, track how far the claim has spread, and determine whether it appears to be true or false by analyzing crowd behavior.
Wellesley Concludes Second Annual Walking Challenge
As the 2015 Walking Challenge concludes, a look at how investments in employee health are paying off—for the College and for employees—in measurable ways.
Town of Wellesley and Wellesley College Announce Completion of North 40 Sale
The Town of Wellesley takes ownership of the parcel known as the North 40; Wellesley College will participate in planning for the property.
Wellesley Community Children’s Center Art Show
The Wellesley Community Children’s Center promotes hands-on learning through art. The center displayed the children’s work in a show for family, friends and guests during Week of the Young Child in May.
Press Release: Sesame Street Improves School Readiness
New research, coauthored by Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and University of Maryland economist Melissa Kearney, finds that greater access to Sesame Street in the show’s early days led to improved early educational outcomes for children.
Wellesley Celebrates Reunion 2015
The Wellesley College Alumnae Association welcomes the classes of the 0’s and 5’s to campus for Reunion 2015 this weekend, June 5–7.
Alumnae Association Launches New Online Community
The Wellesley College Alumnae Association recently launched a new Online Community that provides personalized content for users based on class year, geography and shared interests.
The Science Behind Color Perception
A new paper by Wellesley researchers, based on a study of how people viewed the image known simply as "The Dress," explores how people can see wholly different colors in the same image.