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Wellesley College Davis Museum readies Calculated Risks exhibit
From the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College: Calculated Risks, an exhibition celebrating the inventive diversity among the faculty studio artists at Wellesley College, will fill the special exhibition galleries of the Davis Museum from Sept. 15 – Dec. 12. Featuring 12 artists who range from emerging to internationally acclaimed, the exhibition displays [...]
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Wellesley College, Babson rank well on US News & World Report list
Wellesley College tied for 4th on the US News & World Report ranking of top Liberal Arts colleges, while Babson College kept its 14-year streak alive as the top ranked entrepreneurship program. The magazine’s survey is sliced and diced in so many ways that it seems most schools get listed one way or another.
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Wellesley College Alumnae Hall gets a makeover: A first look
Wellesley College‘s Alumnae Hall, a venue for public and student activities on campus, has undergone an $18 million makeover, its first-ever renovation since being built in 1923. The hall re-opens this fall (photos courtesy of Wellesley College). Now called Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall in honor of the college’s 12th president, the facility features a [...]
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Wellesley to host composers, free concerts
I’m one of those people cursed by being able to only remember a few jokes, and they’re all bad and old. One bad taste sample from my childhood: “What ever became of Arthur Fiedler? Answer: “He’s de-composing” (though now that I think about it, not sure he actually was a composer…he was a legendary Boston [...]
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Wellesley College grads head off into the wider world
Wellesley College celebrated the graduation of 589 students on Friday. And who says journalism is dead? They heard from award-winning broadcast journalist and alum Lynn Sherr as well as student speaker Mira Sethi, who is going to work for the Wall Street Journal. (Photo: Richard Howard)
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Wellesley College turns purple
Purple is the official color of Wellesley College’s Class of 2010 and they let that be known on campus this week. See lots of photos here from Doug on Picassa.
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Summertime at Wellesley College
Just because Wellesley College commencement takes place on May 28 doesn’t mean the school is shutting down for the summer. The Wellesley College Summer School is offering a variety of full credit college classes this summer including: Drawing, Photography, Digital Imaging, Human Biology, The Art of Screenwriting, Studies in Fiction, Jane Austen’s Novels, Shakespeare, The [...]
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Wellesley College makes HuffPost’s anti-party school list
Doubting it’s as quiet as it seems over at Wellesley College as it might see to those of us not on campus, but the school did make Huffington Post’s list of anti-party schools, along with other area schools like MIT and Harvard.
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Wellesley College crowns new hoop rolling queen
Senior Ashley Gramolini grabbed honors (and a dunk in Lake Waban) on Saturday for rolling her wooden hoop across the finish line first at Wellesley College’s 115th annual hoop roll. The winner credited friends from the school’s Shakespeare Society with camping out and securing her a good spot at the starting line. (Photo via Richard [...]
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Wellesley College, Babson name commencement speakers
Wellesley College alum Lynn Sherr, a former ABC News and 20/20 correspondent, will deliver the commencement address at the college on May 28. Separately, Babson College’s new grads will be addressed by William Strickland, head of Manchester Bidwell, on May 15 at their commencement ceremony.
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Indian art exhibit opening at Wellesley College
From Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center: The first American exhibit celebrating contemporary Pardhan Gond art from India, Painted Songs & Stories, will be on view at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College from April 7 through June 6, 2010. An opening reception will be held on April 7, from 5-7pm. [...]
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Nini+Ben to perform at Haiti benefit concert at Wellesley College
Nini+Ben, fresh off an appearance at the buzzy SXSW event in Austin, will perform a Haiti benefit concert at Wellesley College at 8pm on April 14. The Boston Globe has described their music as “spirited high-lonesome folk blues.” Watch here for ticket info.
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Wellesley College a real beauty
Forbes asked architects and designers to pick the most beautiful college campuses in the world, and Wellesley College made the cut.
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Wellesley College posts fall concert schedule