Academic Life

My, what a generous sampling of items! Wouldn’t you like to spend a carefree afternoon looking at them?

90 Research

88 Highly personalized (and therefore effective) letters of recommendation

98 The Albright Institute

73 The First-Year Seminar

49 The libraries

01 The faculty

84 The Wellesley Centers for Women

51 Hugely ambitious projects

18 Lake Baikal

56 The way in which we change the composition of entire fields of study

48 Carine Wete, proudly nontraditional

53 The curriculum

06 The liberal arts & sciences

29 Adam Van Arsdale’s forensic anthropology class

24 The Pamela Daniels Fellowship

58 Angela Carpenter's invented language class

28 The limitlessness of educational options

83 The micro-MRI accessory

65 Women scientists

92 Orgs Fair

42 Cirque du CS

61 The Jewett Arts Center

82 The Wellesley Debates

59 The Whitin Observatory

89 Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

26 Impressive-sounding (and -acting!) scientific equipment

79 Required writing courses—wait! stay with us!—that everyone loves

60 The Tanner Conference

10 The neuroscience major

68 The Knapp Media and Technology Center

11 Majors

69 Working artists

15 The Honor Code

44 Study abroad

71 Davis Museum

13 The way in which we have your back

05 The Ruhlman Conference