While she didn’t know she’d be working on the city of Boston’s Climate Ready Boston program, Alisha Pegan ’16 had hoped for a long time that she would one day work in environmental studies.
“I...
Founded just over a year ago, Wellesley Against Mass Incarceration (WAMI) recently finished a major campaign: the campaign to stop calling campus police. Now they are gearing up for their next campaign,...
Chemistry major Catherine Pugh ’19 has spent the past year studying the modification of sulfonamides (sulfa drugs), a kind of antibiotic that was among the first widely used antibacterial drugs in the...
Chemistry major Catherine Pugh ’19 has spent the past year studying the modification of sulfonamides (sulfa drugs), a kind of antibiotic that was among the first widely used antibacterial drug, to combat...
It is no secret that Wellesley has a strong LGBTQ+ community. We all know about the office of LGBTQ+ student life and its leader, Leah Fygetakis. This year, the office started a new student-led group called...
Not everyone has been to Waban House or Cheever House, two large, stately houses located a few minutes off campus. Those who have, however, have gotten a glimpse of some groundbreaking research. These...
In 1921, the Wellesley College Outing Club started a new tradition: the annual Winter Carnival. Over the following decades, the carnival included a wide range of events, from sledding to skiing competitions...
For several years, there has been no major advocacy organization for disabled, neurodivergent and/or chronically ill students at Wellesley. The issue of inaccessibility, and of a lack of spaces in which...
Margaux Delaney ’20 spent the summer as an intern at the American Shakespeare Center (ASC), a Shakespeare theater in southern Virginia, and gave a Tanner presentation on her work on Oct. 23. As an English...
You may have seen posters around campus or received emails from the Stone Center, Wellesley’s mental health center, about the many support groups and workshops offered by Wellesley. Groups like Complex...
Every year, Convocation is a different color. This year it seemed to be sunshine yellow, with bright outfits peeking out from under the class of 2019’s senior robes. A sea of first-years in purple t-shirts...
Leslie Andrews’s ’82 love of golf has lasted for years. She has been a certified Ladies’ Professional Golf Association (LPGA) instructor since 2002 and served as the director of instruction at Randall’s...
The Wellesley College softball team opened its 2018 season with an appearance at the PFX Spring Games conference in Clermont, Florida, the world’s largest college softball event, on March 23. The Blue...
Note: Leslie Feinberg used both she/her and zie/hir pronouns over the course of hir life. This article follows the style of Feinberg’s literary executor and uses both sets of pronouns.
The online 20th...
Have you ever thought about becoming an emergency medical technician (EMT)? Do you know what to do in the face of a medical emergency? To these questions, members of the Wellesley College Emergency Medical...
It can be hard to keep the 52-year-old “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” from feeling a bit...dated. Once boundary-pushing, the play’s self-awareness is par for the course for a 2018 audience...
The speed at which the titular monarch in “King Lear” descends into madness varies greatly between productions. Is Lear entirely cold and collected until he’s pushed to his breaking point by the...
“The Wolves,” written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Lily Odekirk ’18 for Upstage, revolves around the
lives of a high school girls’ indoor soccer team, telling its story only through the...
The Killers’ “Wonderful Wonderful,” the band’s fifth studio album and their first in five years, continues in the epic vein of their latest album (2012’s “Battle Born”), with little left...
For a production set in a small black-box theatre, Wellesley Repertory Theatre’s production of “Terra Nova” is oddly majestic. The minimalist set is in front of a backdrop of breathtaking Antarctic...
Just before the release of Disney’s new live- action remake of “Beauty and the Beast,” Bill Condon, the director of Disney’s new live- action remake of “Beauty and the Beast,” told Attitude...
Wellesley Upstage’s production of Machinal managed to bring genuine emotion despite having some issues with pacing.
The play, loosely based on housewife Ruth Snyder who was executed for the murder of...
The character dynamic in Rajiv Joseph’s “Guards at the Taj” starts off simple. The only speaking characters in the play are two guards in charge of protecting the newly-built Taj Mahal, one who is...
The Shakespeare Society’s production of “Henry V” opened last Thursday, just two days after the election results. I do not think anyone expected the four-hundred-year-old play to be so topical before...
“It’s all red and gold / and Nat King Cole / and tinsel on the tree,” croons Kacey Musgraves in “Christmas Makes Me Cry,” a track from her new album, “A Very Kacey Christmas.” The song paints...
Poet and Georgetown University professor Mark McMorris has been writing poetry for over two decades now, and it shows. His latest work, “The Book of Landings,” explores the form of lyric poetry, deconstructing...
Walking out of the theater after seeing Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” I felt conflicted.
On the one hand, “Miss Peregrine’s Home” is a faithful adaptation of...
An IBM supercomputer named Watson was commissioned by Fox to make a trailer for their new film “Morgan,” which came out in theaters Sept. 2. The trailer came out on Aug. 31, and is the first ever to...
This article contains spoilers for several current television shows.
On April 8, “Sleepy Hollow” killed off Abbie Mills, portrayed by Nicole Beharie, one of the show’s two lead characters and...
In an early scene from Disney’s “Zootopia,” rabbit protagonist Judy Hopps (voiced by Ginnifer Goodwin) looks up at a police department receptionist (a cheetah voiced by Nate Torrence) with a...
A New York judge’s ruling last month to deny recording artist Kesha Rose Sebert (called Kesha or Ke$ha by her fans) an injunction against producer Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald has been met with widespread...
