Honey Bees Use Animal Feces as a Defense Against Giant Hornet Attacks
For the first time, honey bees (Apis cerana) have been documented using tools, specifically animal dung, to defend their colonies in Asia. To defend themselves against giant hornet (Vespa soror) attacks, which can wipe out whole colonies, honey bees...
3-Dec-2020 2:00 PM EST
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At Mayo Clinic, Wellesley Alumna Continues Senior Thesis Research on Mysteries of Vaginal Microbiomes
When Stephanie Song ’19 started working in the microbiome program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as a summer intern after her sophomore year at Wellesley, she didn’t have any research experience.
3-Dec-2020 11:20 AM EST
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Iran Will Continue to Retaliate in Many Forms and in Many Places
Ambassador Susan Rice joined Wellesley College professor Michael Jeffries for a discussion about her new book, work in the Obama Administration, and current events like the Iran crisis at an event on campus.
10-Jan-2020 7:05 AM EST
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Clinton, Albright Call for Leadership that Unites at Wellesley College Reunion
As part of Wellesley College’s annual reunion weekend, former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Madeleine Korbel Albright joined Wellesley President Paula A. Johnson for a conversation about their time at Wellesley, their...
12-Jun-2019 9:00 AM EDT
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Anita Hill Will Be Wellesley College’s 2019 Commencement Speaker
Anita Hill, university professor of social policy, law, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of its Heller School for Social Policy and Management, will address the members of the class of 2019,...
11-Apr-2019 9:00 PM EDT
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In New Book, Wellesley College Professor Sheds Light on the Use of Political Violence by Black Abolitionists
In Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson, assistant professor of Africana studies at Wellesley College, provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence...
27-Mar-2019 5:10 PM EDT
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In Celebration of International Women’s Day, Wellesley College Launches WellesleyAsks
On International Women’s Day, Wellesley College honors the advancements that so many trailblazing women fought to achieve. To celebrate extraordinary women across disciplines and from around the world, Wellesley is launching WellesleyAsks, a new...
8-Mar-2019 8:00 AM EST
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Albright Institute at Wellesley College Brings Together Experts to Discuss New Challenges to Democracy: Authoritarianism and New Technologies
Wellesley College’s Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs is hosting some of the world’s most influential thinkers—including Samantha Power, Cass Sunstein, Judy Woodruff, John Podesta, Bill Reilly, and Madeleine Albright...
9-Jan-2019 1:05 PM EST
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Wellesley Professor Examines the Ocean’s Response to Climate Change
As carbon emissions increase, how will the ocean respond to climate change? How does carbon dioxide cross from the atmosphere to the ocean? What happens to the carbon dioxide when it is in the ocean? Learn more from Wellesley College professor...
24-Sep-2019 4:45 PM EDT
North Korea expert on second summit in Vietnam
27-Feb-2019 9:00 AM EST
Effects of Looming International Trade Wars
3-Oct-2018 10:00 AM EDT
From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford: How far have we really come?
20-Sep-2018 10:00 AM EDT
Wellesley Professor Discusses Boston Globe’s #FreePress Effort to Combat Anti-Media Rhetoric
16-Aug-2018 4:05 PM EDT
New Book by Wellesley College Political Scientist Holds Answers to How the Presidential Primary’s Populist Explosion Will Transform the General Election
As the author of the recently published Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America, Wellesley College's Laura Grattan can articulate how intensified appeals to "rule by the people"—from Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders—have...
15-Jul-2016 8:45 AM EDT
How to Solve the Nation’s Math Crisis? Tap into Everyday Examples of Calculus in the World Around Us
A Wellesley College mathematics professor says that the key to reversing the country’s Math Crisis lies in tapping into the everyday examples of math hidden in the world around us and changing the way we instruct math in America's classrooms.
10-Oct-2014 10:00 AM EDT
Expert: #Wellesley Political Scientist @Hahriehan on #Grassroots Organizing; New Book Examines How Organizations Attract, Retain Activists
9-Jul-2014 11:00 AM EDT
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