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Jump to navigation Wellesley Magazine Alumnae Association Wellesley College Search form Search Search Enter your keywords In this Issue Features Winter 2024 AI’s Unanswered Questions Wellesley faculty and alumnae are on the forefront of shaping how we coexist with AI—a space that has quickly become ripe for innovation, regulation, and deep thinking on ethics. More An Artist Comes Home Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And —the first retrospective of the acclaimed conceptual artist, cultural critic, and Wellesley ’55 alumna—is the debut exhibition at the newly reopened Davis Museum. More The Matter of Things A novelist contemplates the beauty and impermanence of this world as she works to absorb the loss her of father. 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More Window on Wellesley A New Lens on Accessibility Accessibility isn’t just thinking, ‘OK, we’re meeting the law….’ Our students today are thinking, ‘I want equal access, I want to level the playing field.’” More Humanities Reimagined In January, the Mellon Foundation announced that it has awarded Wellesley $1.5 million for its proposal, Transforming Stories, Spaces, Lives: Rethinking Inclusion and Exclusion through the Humanities.” More Reed All About It The big, ambitious question is to try to understand the fundamental traits related to invasion success. But our more specific, tangible goal was to understand what varieties of phragmites are present on campus.” More WCAA A Plan for the Future In pursuit of Wellesley College’s mission to provide an excellent liberal arts education to women who will make a difference in the world, the WCAA desires to integrate the organization into Wellesley College, effective as of June 30. More Candidate for Alumnae Trustee, 2024–30 Susan Harmon ’67, of Seattle, has been nominated to serve a six-year term as alumnae trustee, from 2024 to 2030, succeeding Grace Toh ’83. More New Works A Life in Leadership At age 12, Wellesley College President Emerita Diana Chapman Walsh ’66 knew she would write a book someday, a beautiful book. That sense of clarity inspired her to write this thoughtful and honest look at her personal history—from childhood, her Wellesley education, marriage and motherhood, through her work as president of the College. More In Brief Thumbnail reviews of new publications from the Wellesley community More Endnote Tragedy in a Big Small Town I was cooking pasta in my Portland, Maine, apartment late on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 25, after a few hours trying to make progress on a dataset for a story on pharmacies. At 8:29… More Memorials David Ferry David Ferry, Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English, died on Nov. 5, 2023, at 99. He taught at Wellesley from 1952 to 1989. David was an exemplary scholar and teacher, a giant of our faculty, a translator and poet of the highest order, and a major figure in American literature. More Alumnae Memorials Tributes to alumnae from friends and family More AI’s Unanswered Questions An Artist Comes Home The Matter of Things In this Issue Class Notes Topics Web Exclusive About Gallery Past Issues Make a gift Contact From the President From the Editor Letters to the Editor Window on Wellesley New Works WCAA Class Notes Endnote Topics Academics Alumnae Lives Arts+Culture Athletics College News Faculty Politics+Society Science+Technology Student Life Past Issues Facebook Twitter YouTube Tumblr LinkedIn Flickr Instagram Privacy Policy Terms of Use Report a Problem on this Site Log In © 2016 Wellesley...