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New look for Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: January 26, 2010

Wellesley College might have oodles of history behind it, but that doesn’t mean the school isn’t trying to stay current. A graphic design outfit called Base Design says that in recent months it has been working with the school to rework its “visual identity,” including a new logo seen here that “conveys upward growth” and [...]

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Wellesley College observatory undergoing renovation

By bbrown | Published: January 18, 2010

Don’t expect any public nights at the Wellesley College Whitin Observatory for a while. The home to Wellesley College Astronomy Department and some cool telescopes closed for renovations the first week of January and is slated to re-open in about a year. Wendy Hagen-Bauer, a professor in the Astronomy Department,  says the renovation will provide [...]

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Wellesley’s weirdest stories of the year

By bbrown | Published: December 28, 2009

Beep Day all fun and games till someone crashes their cars The Wellesley High School senior tradition of parading in their cars took a bad turn when a four-car accident sent 9 kids to the hospital.  Imagine how bad it might have been if they hadn’t been prebriefed by Wellesley police on traffic guidelines for [...]

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The most quoted man in Wellesley retiring

By bbrown | Published: December 11, 2009

Karl “Chip” Case,  who teaches economics at Wellesley College, is retiring. He has been a much quoted expert on the housing market for years. The Globe profiles him here.

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Name calling goes online at Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: November 25, 2009

Quite the dust-up at Wellesley College this week, and a real close-up look at how the Web has transformed the fine art of name calling. We’ve all heard about how ugly online sites such as Facebook can get, and some in Massachusetts are pushing for anti-bullying legislation that would take online bullying into account. Things [...]

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Wellesley College Theatre presents Waiting for the Parade

By bbrown | Published: November 9, 2009

Wellesley College Theatre is proud to present Waiting for the Parade by John Murrell. The opening performance of John Murrell’s play will be on Thursday, November 12 @ 7pm in the Schneider Center’s black box theatre.   Set in Calgary during World War ll, this play reminds us that the wounded are not always at the [...]

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Whirlwind Wellesley College Davis Museum tour

By bbrown | Published: October 9, 2009

A few notes from a rainy day visit to Wellesley College’s Davis Museum & Cultural Center: * Most popular kid attraction: Black-and-white video of a guy bouncing against a wall, with a headset for listening to him Whomping against it. * The cellphone photo-inspired Cell Tango exhibit was fun to watch for a few minutes. [...]

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Ranking Wellesley College and Babson

By bbrown | Published: August 22, 2008

The annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings are out and the local colleges fared well as usual (methodology here). The magazine put Wellesley College at #4 among liberal arts schools behind only Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore (Wellesley’s tuition and fees are listed as $36,640).  Babson grabbed honors as the top entrepreneurial undergrad [...]

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The Sox vs. Yanks of women-only colleges

By bbrown | Published: August 11, 2008

Newsweek cites Wellesley vs. Smith as one of the top 12 college rivalries. The article points out Smith’s efforts to target low-income students, though says Wellesley is no slouch on that front either. Smith also is said to have a good nightlife off campus: Café-crawling Smith students say of their school, “The coffee is strong [...]

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Last lectures could make comeback in Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: August 3, 2008

Inspired by the now famous Last Lecture (above) of recently deceased CMU professor Randy Pausch, Wellesley College is among schools considering reviving the tradition of last lectures by its faculty. The idea is for experienced teachers to share their life lessons with students, faculty, staff and the public at large. From the Boston Globe: “There’s [...]

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Mozart III comes to Wellesley College

By bbrown | Published: August 1, 2008

That’s the name of this new outdoor sculpture by Kenneth Snelson located near the Science Center. (Mozart I is at Stanford University, Mozart II is at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, NY). The sculpture consists of stainless steel tubes joined by wire cables. Snelson compares building his works to playing music (thus the name of this [...]

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Wellesley College getting more sober

By bbrown | Published: July 28, 2008

Wellesley College is listed as No. 8 this year on the Princeton Review‘s annual ranking of Stone Cold Sober Schools. Last year, the school came in at No. 11. BYU once again topped the list, and the University of Florida topped the list of party schools.

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The composers are here, so are free concerts

By bbrown | Published: July 23, 2008

The Composers Concert is being held at Wellesley College this week and next, and a series of free concerts are being held several nights between now and Aug. 2 at 8pm at Jewett Auditorium. Here’s the schedule.

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