Convocation 2025 marked the beginning of the academic year and the College’s 150th anniversary

A conversation about grief, loss, and how we memorialize our pets with authors E.B. Bartels, Rev. Sarah Bowen, and Karen Fine DVM

Even months later, the pain of losing a pet can still hit without warning. The trigger might be noticing — for the umpteenth time — how empty the house feels since your cat died, or stumbling across t...

Host Peter O'Dowd grapples with the complex grief of losing a pet.

An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed.E.B. Bartels ...

The Davis Museum operations team installs the spring 2025 special exhibitions

The Davis Museum highlights the many ways artists celebrate nature.

Students, staff, and faculty welcomed first-years and their families on move-in day.

The economics professor has taught at Wellesley since 2000

Wellesley College is one of the most academically challenging institutions of higher education in the country, and we are widely acknowledged as the top women's college in the world. We prepare studen...

Wellesley Humanities Faculty Receive $1.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant

Rebecca Renner is the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, which was named a most anticipated nonfiction book of 2023 by BookPage. Renner is also a con…

Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, essayist, and novelist, who has worked as a volunteer in wildlife and raptor rehabilitation. She is the author of The Radiant Lives of Animals, Dwellings: A Spiritu…

Meet Banu Subramaniam, Wellesley’s New Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies

Maddalena Bearzi is the author of Stranded: Finding Nature in Uncertain Times and Dolphin Confidential: Confessions of a Field Biologist, and she is the coauthor of Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Li��...

Rosanna Xia is the author of California Against the Sea, which examines the future of our vanishing coastline in the face of rising water. She is also an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Ti…