Sporting a green apron over a black pantsuit, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright '59 stood proudly behind the deli counter at El Table on Jan. 24 in order to introduce the student-run co-op's most recent addition to their menu, "The Madeleine All-Bite.
The shuttle that services the three-college consortium now makes later runs on weekends, to facilitate easier travel between Wellesley, Olin, and Babson.
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On Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:30 p.m, the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities will host renowned author Pico Iyer as part of its Distinguished Writers Series. Iyer is the author of seven non-fiction books and several novels. In 2008, he published the book The Open Road, chronicling over 30 years of traveling with the 14th Dalai Lama.
The Secretary of State visits Myanmar to recognize the strides that the country has made since electing a president, and also to encourage further improvement.
PRESIDENT Kirsten Dorozynski Dear Wellesley, Hello! My name is Kirstin Dorozynski and I am running for College Government President. I believe that, first and foremost, the CGP is the chief spokeswoman for the student body. The CGP speaks not for a select group of people, but for the interests of every single member of our community.
Campus societies have recently received a spate of negative attention for their initiation practices. Tau Zeta Epsilon (TZE) has been criticized by students for dressing initiates like dogs and requiring them to bark when they encounter full members of TZE.
After over two years of consultation, research and testing, the administration selected Google Apps for Education as the College's new emailing system.
Five of the Seven Sister colleges will collaborate with the U.S. State Department to increase female participation in politics and the public sector through the Women and Public Service Initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ‘69 announced on March 11.
After less than a month in office, Leah Fygetakis, director of LGBTQ programs and services, identified a void in the way queer issues are handled on campus.
Last Wednesday, March 2, seniors and faculty gathered in Pendleton Atrium for wine, cheese and discussion on a topic that many believe is seldom brought up in day-to-day campus conversation: Wellesley's endowment, budget and alumnae giving.
"March 8, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day (IWD)—and as many of you know, this anniversary is important to me," Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 proclaimed in her address from the U.S. State Department yesterday morning.
The Office of Admission saw a two percent increase in applications this year, according to administrative officials. Over 4,400 women applied for a spot in the Class of 2015.
On Feb. 24, students, faculty, and other members of the community gathered on the steps of Jewett to rally in response to the Wisconsin legislature's proposed anti-union bill to promote political awareness and change.
Marilyn Crandall Jones '70 "It didn't happen quite the way it sounds," Alumnae Achievement Award recipient Marilyn Jones '70 said of her plan to enter medical school after majoring in art history at Wellesley. "I started out thinking I was going to be a doctor because both my parents were doctors.
The College's Alumnae Association presented Alumnae Achievement Awards to Marilyn Crandall Jones '70, Sarah Milledge Nelson '53, Reena Raggi '73 and Susan Wunsch Rice '67 during a ceremony in the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall on Thursday.
Two weeks ago, College President H. Kim Bottomly announced that the College's new tri-partite structure to further commitment to diversity inclusion has neared completion.
Six alumnae who graduated in the decades spanning from the 40s to the 90s gathered in Tower Great Hall to share their college experiences with students at Wellesley Memories Night on Thursday.
A winter season with an unusual amount of snow, old Wellesley facilities and rising global temperatures has recently culminated in the form of flooding damage to various buildings across campus.
After being in Wellesley Square for more than fourteen years, Ann Taylor, formerly located at 73 Central Street, sold its last pair of dress slacks when it closed this past week.
Exchange bus, Wellesley-Babson-Olin shuttle, Health Services all forced to halt operation
At 10 a.m. last Tuesday, Feb. 1, students logged onto FirstClass received an announcement that the MIT Exchange Bus and Wellesley-Olin-Babson Shuttle would not be running the next day due to inclement weather.
On Jan. 20, 2011, Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright '59 contributed to an open panel discussion titled, "Sustainable Solutions through International Aid" in Alumnae Hall upon the culmination of her second annual self-titled Institute for Global Affairs.
It happens every year: summer approaches, and spring semester commences. Students become inevitably concerned with course schedules, degree requirements and transcripts.
This year's wintersession housing policies are a continuation of last year's, when available dorms were reduced to the new dorm complex of Bates, Freeman, and McAfee.
Established through the Jerome A. Schiff Charitable Trust, the Schiff Fellowships are annually awarded to 10 to 15 students, giving each a minimum of $2,000 dollars to support their senior thesis work.
Comittees developed to evaluate the overall academic experience as well as three task forces to evaluate the Sciences, Arts and Foreign Languages and Literature.
Phusion Products announces new caffeine-free formula
On Nov. 18, Massachusetts became the fifth state—following Washington, Michigan, Utah and Oklahoma—to ban the sale of Four Loko and similar caffeinated alcoholic beverages.
On Friday, Nov. 19, cast member Jim True-Frost led class discussion in WRIT125 "‘The Wire' and the American City," drawing on his experience working on all five seasons of the series that ran from 2002 to 2008.
On Tuesday, Nov. 16, a screening of a 2009 Sundance Film Festival documentary portraying the phenomenon of honor killings in Iraqi Kurdistan was held in Collins Cinema.
Culture Shock, an event that sought to test students preconceived notions about race, sexuality and privilege was held in the Campus Center this past week.
Students on both Wellesley and MIT campuses speak out on cross-registration
In its fifth decade, the Wellesley-MIT Exchange program continues to tout its original intent to give students academic and social variety, but time has allowed for the exchange to become seemingly one-sided.
In the time since, part of the transition to a new, unified communications system has progressed with the launch of MyWellesley, a centralized portal, and Sakai, the selected learning management system which will become the primary tool for conferencing.
On Sunday, Oct. 31 Brazil elected Dilma Rousseff of the ruling center-left Workers' Party, as the nation's thirty-sixth president, and its first female president.
he Project's website features a video archive of LGBT adults who have overcome bullying and found happiness, including Project Runway's Tim Gunn, as well as supporters of the Project, including President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton '69.
On Saturday, Oct. 23, nine Wellesley students joined fellow student climate activists from around the state of Massachusetts at Institute Park in Worcester.
The Committee for Political and Legislative Action (CPLA) hosted a mid-term election panel last Thursday, Oct. 28 with sociology professor Tom Cushman, political science professor Chris Stout, and economics professor Akila Weerapana to discuss critical election issues.
Last Monday, student-led Wellesley Energy and Environmental Defense (WEED) organized its first Meatless Monday, a sustainability initiative that called for the majority of the College's dining halls to serve only meat-free dishes for the entire day.
While still immersed in the turmoil surrounding her more recent study on U.S. syphilis experiments in Guatemala, Reverby received the news that she was recently named one of the three winners of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society's 2010 Book Award.
Four seniors were notified last Wednesday that they are in contention for the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a one-year grant for independent study and travel outside the United States.
On Oct. 30, James Kofi Annan, an award-winning human rights activist and Richard Lui, a service-oriented MSNBC anchor, will speak at Wellesley College about sex trafficking, community service and activism.
"Hello my friends, I see you all. It's a great pleasure to be here speaking about the Na'vi language," Frommer said—entirely in Na'vi, the artificial language he created for the blockbuster film "Avatar." The diverse crowd of professors, students and fans who attended filled the room to its capacity.
Due to the larger-than-expected size of the class of 2014, the college's office of admissions has faced decisions as to how to balance the size of the student body going forward as well as the acceptance rate for the class of 2015 and future classes.
Sometime before noon on Monday Oct. 11, a third party, unaffiliated with the College, came onto campus and distributed flyers on the windshields of cars in the DC lot.
While this year's percentage of students studying abroad is comparable to those of the past ten years, each falling within 41-44 percent of the junior class going abroad, it is certainly a huge drop from the 52 percent of the Class of 2011 juniors who went abroad in the last academic year.
Next week the Tanner Conference will celebrate its 10th anniversary, showcasing Wellesley in the world and highlighting student achievement off-campus.
Divorcehasbeenagrowing phenomenon among married couples in the United States. In order to cater to this rising trend, the Huffington Post will feature a news section specifically tailored to divorce—starting Nov. 2— with Nora Ephron '62 to serve as the section's chief editor, alongside senior editor Willow Bay.
In the late 1990s, Brockton High School of Brockton, Mass. was a school that needed help. However, in the past decade, Brockton chose to change their instruction methods.
On Saturday Oct. 16, the College will be a stop on a tour of college campuses that feature modernist architecture. The tour will be sponsored by DOCOMOMO-US, a national branch of the Paris-based advocate group for the protection and conservation of Modern Architecture and Urbanism.
In a world of users and consumers, beneath a sky with a hole torn in its ozone layer, the Wellesley College community has decided to take a definitive stance on sustainability: the campus is deeply invested in trying to make Wellesley as green as possible.
Anna Tang, a former Wellesley student accused of stabbing her then boyfriend in his Massachusetts Institue of Technology dormitory in October 2007, is set to have her trial on June 22-23 of next year, postponed from the previously set May 24 date.
College hosts former Secretary of Homeland Security, author of Patriot Act
"Concerns for the safety of our public do not disappear from our headlines for very long," said Jonathon Imber, professor of sociology, in his introduction to a lecture by Former Secretary of Homeland Security and coauthor of the Patriot Act Michael Chertoff in Tishman Commons on Oct. 4.
Students housed at Regis College this semester awoke last Friday, Sept. 24 to an e-mail from Wellesley College Campus Police stating that an incident occurred nearby their dormitory during the night
Adele Wolfson will assume the new position as director of the 3-College Collaboration on July 1, which aims to increase academic collaboration and communication between Wellesley, Olin and Babson by building on the three colleges' geographic proximity and complementary educational strengths.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on Engineering and the National Science Education, has put forth a call to address 14 global engineering challenges. Wellesley, in collaboration with Babson College and Olin School of Engineering, is partaking in the action and sponsoring the Boston Grand Challenges Summit.
Despite the media's portrayal of the economic situation, Irma Tryon and Folly Patterson, from the Center for Work and Service, and Sue Sours, from Wellesley Center for Women, argue that Wellesley seniors should have nothing to fear. The fields doing well include health, technology, education, government and utilities.
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