The Wellesley College hoop rolling race on Saturday morning featured all you could ask for: dozens of gowned young women speeding their wooden hoops across campus; at least one student wiped out, but bounced back nicely; and the winner (Alex Nagourney, a physics major from Glen Ridge, NJ) got carried by classmates and dunked in [...]
Wellesley College seniors decked out in their graduation gowns will take their colorfully decorated wooden hoops for a spin this Saturday morning at 9am as part of the school’s 118th annual hoop rolling race. If you’ve never seen this spectacle, it’s worth a look. The beauty of it is that it’s over in a matter [...]
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum will unveil a recently acquired painting called “Lady from Lima” on Friday, April 26. The museum says this “Portrait of a Young Woman,” nicknamed “Lady from Lima,” was painted in Peru during the 18th century and has never been publicly exhibited. According to Davis Museum Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art [...]
Wellesley College and Babson College students separately celebrated spring with concerts on campus over the past week. Seems the thing to do by performers these days is to post Instagram images of the crowd going crazy: Macklemore at Wellesley College: Steve Aoki at Babson: A pre-concert photo, too, at Babson. [...]
Wellesley College is publicly showing support for Katelyn Campbell, a West Virginia high school senior who has made headlines for speaking out against her high school’s principal and an abstinence-only sex-ed assembly that Campbell said students were forced to attend. The speaker at the assembly denies saying some of the things Campbell has relayed. Campbell [...]
The bells at Galen Stone Tower at Wellesley College will ring Tuesday afternoon in memory of those who died at the Boston Marathon yesterday and in support of those recovering and otherwise affected. There will be a concert on the @wellesley carillon today from 2:40-2:50 followed by tolling of the bells in memory of the [...]
Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Barack Obama, has been named as Wellesley College’s commencement speaker for the ceremony slated to take place on May 31. Jarrett is also chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls. Jarrett has a background in Chicago politics, and before joining the Obama administration, was CEO [...]
