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Soccer star Kristine Lilly taking part in Title IX panel at Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: January 30, 2012

From Wellesley College: In honor of National Girls and Women in Sport Day, the Wellesley College Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics will host Title IX: 40 Years & Counting, a panel event on Monday, Feb. 13. The event celebrates 40 years of Title IX, the legislation that positively influenced the growth and culture [...]

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Wellesley College greenhouses get ghostly

By bbrown | Published: January 20, 2012

The Wellesley College Botanical Gardens, in conjunction with the school’s Jewett Gallery, next week will begin hosting an art exhibit among its many plants.  Greenhouse Ghosts features life-sized white silhouettes of threatened, endangered and extinct species, presenting a stark contrast against the colorful plant life. Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan. 26. 4-5:30pm, Botanic Gardens Visitor Center [...]

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2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan visiting Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: January 10, 2012

Wellesley College’s Newhouse Center for the Humanities late next month will feature Jennifer Egan, winner of the 2011 Pulizer Prize for her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad, as part of its Distinguished Writer Series (I can honestly claim to have read this book and another of hers). Her talk will take place at [...]

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Wellesley Summer Theatre’s “Season’s Greetings” delivers post-holiday gift

By dcb | Published: January 6, 2012

Christmas comes but once a year with good reason, as Alan Ayckbourn’s dark comedy, “Season’s Greetings,” put on by The Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, reminds us. Everything about the setting and circumstances seems typically English — relatives are gathered to celebrate Christmas. There is a well-stocked home bar and a nearby pub, which, under ordinary [...]

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“Season’s Greetings” starts up this week at Wellesley Summer Theatre

By bbrown | Published: January 3, 2012

From Wellesley College’s Wellesley Summer Theatre: “It’s Christmas in suburban London, and things couldn’t be going less well for Belinda and Neville and their disfunctional relatives. This black comedy features furtive trysts under the tree, a horrifying puppet show and a few madcap mistaken assumptions. Join us for the holiday festivities as we laugh at [...]

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Sneak peek: Wellesley Davis Museum readies for Radcliffe Bailey exhibit

By bbrown | Published: December 15, 2011

Wellesley College’s Davis Museum is ramping up for the northeast premiere of artist Radcliffe Bailey’s exhibit, called Memory as Medicine, running Feb. 15-May 6. A free opening reception will be held from 5-7pm on Feb. 15. Museum director Lisa Fischman says in a statement: “Bailey’s art, informed by a strong social and historical consciousness and [...]

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Umbrella-based art exhibit literally opens up at Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: December 6, 2011

Eye of the Storm student exhibit opens at Wellesley College’s Jewett Art Gallery:  

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Show us your Wellesley tattoos

By bbrown | Published: November 30, 2011

We came across perhaps the ultimate Wellesley tattoo from Wellesley Underground — a 2008 Wellesley College grad’s ode to the classic lamp posts on campus AND to the inimitable Oscar Wilde (and came across another from a 2007 grad with just the lamp post, below) Which of course leads us to ask: What other Wellesley-themed [...]

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High over Wellesley: Asteroid 2005 YU55

By bbrown | Published: November 10, 2011

Sharp-eyed Wellesley College faculty and students (and one professor’s six-year-old kid) Wednesday night caught a glimpse of an asteroid passing relatively close to earth. They grabbed these images via a 24-inch telescope at Whitin Observatory, which was outfitted over the summer with a new camera system. According to Wellesley, “2005 YU55, which is approximately 1,300 feet [...]

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Nine Armenians comes to Wellesley College Theatre this week

By bbrown | Published: November 7, 2011

From Wellesley College Theatre: This three-generation drama about an inescapable ethnic legacy tells the story of an American college student choosing to visit Armenia after the death of her grandfather, heeding his call to seek out her ancestral history. Join us as we dance, sing, eat, make music, cry, laugh, scream, and support each other [...]

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Wellesley choirs to perform this coming weekend

By bbrown | Published: November 7, 2011

 

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Wellesley College students get creative with a mouse

By bbrown | Published: November 3, 2011

Two separate Wellesley College teams have been recognized for their innovation in this year’s User Interface Software & Technology Student Innovation Contest, during which they were challenged to come up with cool new uses for Microsoft’s TouchMouse, which supports natural gestures for moving your way around a computer. One group put the TouchMouse to use [...]

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Wellesley College outdoes itself for Halloween

By bbrown | Published: November 1, 2011

Haunted Whitin Observatory at Wellesley College  

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Free Shakespeare this week in Wellesley: The Tempest

By bbrown | Published: October 19, 2011

Actors from the London Stage will perform Shakespeare’s The Tempest this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7pm at Wellesley College’s Alumnae Hall. The performances are free and open to the public. Wellesley College describes The Tempest as conjuring up “a world of innocent lovers, bawdy buffoons, mystical beings and a spectacular storm that transforms everyone [...]

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Wellesley College Fall Frenzy concert: Ellie Goulding

By bbrown | Published: October 18, 2011

Ellie Goulding, a rising singer/songwriter out of the UK, will be belting out tunes at a Fall Frenzy concert at Wellesley College on Nov. 14. The concert is free for Wellesley College students and will cost $10 for off-campus guests (ticket info to come). Goulding has made a name for herself of late for her [...]

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