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ICYMI: The Science Summer Research Program wraps up each year with a poster session where students share with the commun...
08/20/2026

ICYMI: The Science Summer Research Program wraps up each year with a poster session where students share with the community what they learned while working on their projects. Wamda ’27 (first photo) said one thing she learned from doing research was that “a lot of it is trial and error” and that professors are open to taking suggestions from students. ”[Research] is not as intimidating as it may sound,” she said. “While you’re in the lab, it’s a lot of teamwork and getting to know yourself and the project."

In July, Mika Taga ’22 returned to campus at the invitation of Anne Beckley, Wellesley’s senior outdoor gardens horticul...
08/19/2026

In July, Mika Taga ’22 returned to campus at the invitation of Anne Beckley, Wellesley’s senior outdoor gardens horticulturist, to create a collaborative, ecological, ever-changing installation in the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens.

She invited the campus community—including children from the WCCC—to help! The result is The Nest, a site-specific woven sculpture encompassing a northeast corner of the gardens bordering Route 135. 🪹

Photos by Samara Pearlstein, Anne Buckley and Darlene Howard

From Professor Ismar Volić: The founders believed self-government could rest on reason. Two and a half centuries later, ...
08/18/2026

From Professor Ismar Volić: The founders believed self-government could rest on reason. Two and a half centuries later, that ideal remains as relevant as ever. Mathematics cannot replace politics or absolve us from the hard work of citizenship. But when nearly 80 percent of us worry about where democracy is headed, and its traditional guardians are absent or compromised, it matters enormously that rigorous, tested ideas for fairer systems exist.
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Democracy, we like to think, runs on ideals like freedom, equality, the consent of the governed. But look under the hood and you'll find something less lofty – mathematics.The idea that democracy depends on math is not new. From ancient Greece onward, votes had to be counted and seats had to be di...

ICYMI: Astronomer Nicole Tan ’20 had an asteroid named after her! 🔭
08/12/2026

ICYMI: Astronomer Nicole Tan ’20 had an asteroid named after her! 🔭

From a little red dot, into infinity and beyond.

Molly Wasser ’09 is a communications specialist for NASA’s Planetary Science Division. After Artemis II captured the fir...
08/11/2026

Molly Wasser ’09 is a communications specialist for NASA’s Planetary Science Division. After Artemis II captured the first images of the moon on its mission in April, Molly and her team chose which photos to release and wrote the accompanying captions. “It was a true career highlight,” Molly says. “I’ve been trying to get people to care about the moon for almost a decade.” 🌒🌓🌔🌕

Molly Wasser ’09 communicates for NASA about asteroids, aliens, and the moon

“If you want to be a diplomat, it’s important to look outside yourself and have an openness to learning,” says Mónica Ba...
08/07/2026

“If you want to be a diplomat, it’s important to look outside yourself and have an openness to learning,” says Mónica Ballesteros Arias ’11. That’s a lesson she took away from her time at the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, established by Madeleine Korbel Albright ’59, the first female United States secretary of state. More from Wellesley magazine: https://bit.ly/4g2dVCN

Mónica Ballesteros Arias ’11, who hails from Mexico City, serves as deputy chief of staff for David Kershenobich, Mexico’s secretary of health.

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