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• High School Teachers Struggle with Their Part of the College Application; Wellesley Dean of Admission Offers Advice
  Dec. 27, 1999 -- As many high school seniors around the country spend part of their winter vacations writing college application essays, thousands of teachers will share their struggles to find just the right words as they complete their part of the application process the letter of recommendation...
  
• Wellesley Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship
  Dec. 14, 1999 -- Wellesley College senior Chavi Keeney Nana is one of 40 Americans to be awarded the Marshall Scholarship to study at a university in Britain next year ...
  
• President Walsh Travels to East Asia, December Trip to Include Hong Kong, Taipei, and Beijing
  Dec. 3, 1999 -- Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh will arrive in Taipei on December 4 to begin a 10-day visit to east Asia...
  
• Law Professor Lani Guinier to Speak at Wellesley College
  Nov. 19, 1999 -- Lani Guinier, the first African American female to become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, will deliver the prestigious Wilson Lecture at Wellesley College on Wednesday evening, February 16 ...
  
• Leading Business Women Gather at Wellesley College
  Nov. 11, 1999 -- Seventy-five business women from around the globe gathered at Wellesley College this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Business Leadership Council, the alumnae organization whose members were the impetus for the 1995 New York Times article, "How to Succeed? Go to Wellesley..."
  
• MIT Dean William Mitchell Named Wellesley Trustee
  Nov. 1, 1999 -- The Wellesley College Board of Trustees has elected William J. Mitchell, Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, as its newest member ...
  
• Wellesley's Hildegard Colloquium Series
  Sept. 2, 1999 -- In honor of the 900th anniversary of the birth of the German Abbess known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine," Wellesley College announces "A Millenium Celebration of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)" ...
  
• Wellesley Ranked Fourth Among Nation's Top Colleges
  August 20, 1999 -- Wellesley College has been ranked fourth among national liberal arts colleges for the second consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report magazine in its annual "America's Best Colleges" issue...
  
• A Different Kind of Working Vacation
  August 9, 1999 -- Baton Rouge entrepreneur Lisa Cypel always wanted to speak French. This summer, she closed her yoga and fitness consulting practice and spent four weeks at Wellesley College near Boston in an intensive French language course. "I wanted to do something more with my vacation than just travel," commented Cypel during her last week of summer school...
  
• Five Wellesley Students Spend Summer in Hong Kong Internships Supported by the Henry Luce Foundation
  July 16, 1999 -- Through the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, five students from Wellesley College are spending the summer working and learning in Hong Kong. The interns, their hosts, and area Wellesley alumnae will gather on July 22 to welcome Professor William Joseph, the first faculty director of the Elisabeth Luce Moore International Internships and Fellowships...
• Wellesley Graduate Receives Oprah Winfrey Award for Volunteerism to Provide Financial Counseling to the Poor
  June 8, 1999 -- Recent Wellesley College graduate Eva-Dina Delgado is the 1999 recipient of the Oprah Winfrey Award for Volunteerism that provides a stipend for a summer internship with a not-for-profit organization. A 1999 graduate who majored in international relations, Delgado will be working for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of South Texas to help low-income individuals, especially recent high school graduates, take charge of their finances. By empowering individuals, she hopes to have a positive impact on the Rio Grande Valley community...
• Wellesley College to Hold Public Information Session on June 17 on Proposed Cleanup Plan
  June 7, 1999 -- Wellesley College announced today that it will hold a Public Information Session Thursday, June17 at Wellesley Town Hall at 7 p.m. The meeting will address cleanup plans at the site of the former Henry Wood's Sons paint factory...
  

• Child Literacy Advocate Receives Barbara Bush Award for Volunteerism
  June 6, 1999 -- Recent Wellesley College graduate Sheila Raghavan is the recipient of 1999 Barbara Bush Award for Volunteerism that provides a stipend for an internship with a not-for-profit organization. With the help of the award, Raghavan will be working at Child Relief and You (CRY), an international non-profit organization that focuses on child welfare...
  
• Broadcast Journalist Lynn Sherr Delivers Commencement Address
  May 28, 1999 -- Journalist and author Lynn Sherr returned to her alma mater today to address the Class of 1999 at Wellesley College's 121st Commencement exercises...
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• Wellesley College Summer Theatre Presents "Dancing at Lughnasa"
  May 17, 1999 -- The play runs June 2 -26 in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre in Alumnae Hall and is handicap accessible...
  
• Chicago Businesswoman Victoria Herget to Chair Board of Trustees
  May 14, 1999 -- The Wellesley College Board of Trustees has elected Chicago native Victoria J. Herget to be Chair of the Board, effective July 1, 1999. In a unanimous vote, Herget was selected to succeed Gail Heitler Klapper, who has led the Board of the liberal arts college for women since 1993...
  
• Student to Sing National Anthem at Red Sox Game
  May 6, 1999 -- Sage Lazar will sing the National Anthem at Fenway Park, May 11, but this will not be the Wellesley College junior's first time in the major leagues...
  
• President Walsh to be Awarded Honorary Degree at Umass-Amherst Commencement, May 23
  May 3, 1999 -- Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst during undergraduate Commencement ceremonies there Sunday, May 23...
  
• Texan Wins 104th Annual Hoop-Rolling Contest
  May 1, 1999 -- Summer Smith, a Spanish major from San Antonio, Texas, is the winner of this morning's 104th annual hoop-rolling competition at Wellesley College...
  
• Ruhlman Conference Celebrates Student Achievement
  April 28, 1999 -- The third annual Ruhlman Conference will be held Thursday, April 29, at Wellesley College. Made possible by the Barbara Peterson Ruhlman Fund for Interdisciplinary Study, the Ruhlman Conference is intended to foster collaboration among students and faculty across the disciplines and to enhance the intellectual life of the College...
  
• New Associate Deans Named
  April 22, 1999 -- Andrea Levitt, Professor of French and Linguistics and Director of Language Studies, and Andrew Shennan, Associate Professor of History, will serve as Associate Deans of the College beginning July 1, 1999...
  
• Wellesley Students to Honor Marathoner from Years Past
  April 13, 1999 -- As a competitor in the Boston Marathon many years ago, John Archer never finished first. Instead, "Black Bart" chose to run in the middle of the pack, supporting those around him. This year students are bringing Black Bart back to Wellesley to view the marathon with them, Monday, April 19 ...
  
• Wellesley Student Named Truman Scholar for Commitment to Public Service
  April 12, 1999 -- Wellesley College junior Bridget Smith has been awarded the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship for her outstanding leadership and commitment to public service. One of 65 students nationwide to receive the scholarship ...
  
• UN Ambassadors, Human Rights Workers to Discuss World Issues
  April 8, 1999 -- Ambassadors to the United Nations from 11 countries, representatives of human rights groups and non-governmental organizations, and students from 20 US colleges and universities will gather at Wellesley College on April 16 - 18 ...
  
• Correspondents to Discuss Risk of War-time Journalism, April 21
  April 7, 1999 -- Whether on the border between Kosovo and Macedonia or in the streets of Somalia, journalists risk their lives every day to convey the stories of world conflict to audiences thousands of miles away. Each year, more than 50 lose their lives in the process. On April 21, a panel of news editors and journalists will join documentary film producer ...
  
• The Microsoft Case and Its Implications for High-Tech Competition
  April 6, 1999 -- Experts will debate the government's current case against computer giant Microsoft at the 1999 Economic Student Board Spring Colloquium at Wellesley, April 8 ...
  
• Japanese Jazz Quartet and Dancers Perform at Wellesley
  April 5, 1999 -- The Makoto Takenaka Jazz Quartet: Thursday, April 22 at 8 p.m. The Kikuyuki Dancers: Tuesday, April 27 at 7 p.m...
  
• Broadcast Journalist Lynn Sherr to Deliver Commencement Address
  March 31, 1999 -- Journalist and author Lynn Sherr will return to her alma mater on Friday, May 28 to address the Class of 1999 at Wellesley College's 121st Commencement exercises. In keeping with tradition, President Diana Chapman Walsh announced the selection of the speaker to members of the senior class at a reception Tuesday evening...
  
• International Jewish Women Writers to Read Their Works
  March 31, 1999 -- Seven Jewish women writers from six countries will read from their novels and poetry at Wellesley College, April 11, in honor of the College's tenth anniversary of its Jewish Studies Program. The event, Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in the New Europe, will be held at the Wellesley College Club and is free and open to the public...
  
• Town Fire Department's Prompt Response Limits Damage to College Library
  March 24, 1999 -- A small fire today at the Wellesley College library was quickly doused by town firefighters whose rapid response limited the extent of the damage. The blaze broke out at approximately 10 a.m. in the ceiling of the fourth floor, according to Micheline Jedrey, vice president for information services and college librarian, who was at the scene...
  
• Two Wellesley Students Win Watson Fellowships for Independent Study Abroad
  March 23, 1999 -- Wellesley College seniors Jennifer Lorenz and Rebecca Padnos have been awarded the prestigious Watson Fellowship for a year of independent study abroad. Each Watson Fellow receives a stipend of $22,000. The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program was established in 1968 to provide exceptional college graduates the opportunity for a focused and disciplined year of international study and travel...
  
• Professor's Project Nominated for Webby Award
  March 17, 1999 -- A website created in part by Wellesley College Professor of Political Science Marion R. Just has been nominated for a 1999 Webby Award. Dubbed the "Oscars of the Internet" by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Webby Awards honor the best sites on the World Wide Web. The winners of the Webbies will be announced on Thursday, March 18, at an awards ceremony in San Francisco and via a live webcast...
  
• Luce Foundation Gift Strengthens College's Asia Links
  March 17, 1999 -- Wellesley College's historic ties to Asia have received a boost with the recent $2 million gift from the Henry Luce Foundation to strengthen and expand academic programs in that part of the world. The contribution was made in honor of Elisabeth Luce Moore, Class of 1924, in celebration of her 75th reunion year...
  
• Wellesley Launches Summer School
  March 11, 1999 -- Wellesley College will launch a coeducational summer school for college students, with two four-week sessions beginning in June. The Wellesley College Summer School will combine small classes taught by Wellesley's renowned faculty with a spectacular campus, state-of-the-art facilities, and a convenient location close to Boston...
  
• Wellesley Honors Three with Alumnae Achievement Awards
  February 10, 1999 -- Three Wellesley College alumnae will be honored Thursday, February 11, for the significant contributions they have made to their respective fields. Biblical scholar and archaeologist Carol Lyons Meyers, economist Alice Tepper Marlin, and architect and historic preservationist Ann Macy Beha will receive the College's Alumnae Achievement Awards for 1999...
  
• Lee Cuba Named Dean of Wellesley College
  February 1, 1999 -- Wellesley College has named Lee Cuba, a professor of sociology and an Associate Dean, to be its next Dean of the College. The appointment was approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting last Friday...
  
• Wellesley Announces Major Boost in Financial Aid
  January 29, 1999 -- The Wellesley College Board of Trustees today approved a more generous financial aid policy that will increase annual aid by up to $2,000 for each eligible student and decrease her overall debt...
  
• Wellesley Alumna is First Lady's Guest at State of the Union Address
  January 20, 1999 -- Ashley Dumas, a 1998 graduate of Wellesley College, attended President Clinton's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, January 19, as a guest of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Wellesley Class of 1969...
  

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1998 Releases

• Two Wellesley Scientists Awarded NSF Grant
  December 28, 1998 -- Associate Professor Emily A. Buchholtz and Assistant Professor Kristina N. Jones, both of the department of biological science at Wellesley College, have been awarded research grants by the National Science Foundation as part of its nationwide Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education program...
  
• Wellesley Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship
  December 16, 1998 -- Wellesley College senior Jocelyn Benson is one of 40 Americans to be awarded the Marshall Scholarship to study at a university in Britain next year...
  
• Chilean Poet and Wellesley Professor Marjorie Agosin receives Human Rights Award
  November 30, 1998 -- Wellesley College Professor of Spanish Marjorie Agosín has been selected by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) to receive a Leadership Award for her contributions to international understanding and human rights...
  
• Wellesley College Receives $1 Million Gift to Promote Children's Mental Health
  November, 1998 -- The Stone Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio will fund a new mental health initiative for children through a $1 million gift to the Stone Center, part of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College...
  
• The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg Delivers Wilson Lecture
  November 17, 1998 -- President Diana Chapman Walsh and The Committee on Lectures and Cultural Events invited The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, The Supreme Court of the United States, to deliver the 1998-1999 Wilson Lecture at Wellesley College on Friday, November 13, 1998...
  
• Alumna to Serve on National Science Board
  October 21, 1998 -- The Senate today confirmed Pamela A. Ferguson, Wellesley Class of '65, to serve as a member of the National Science Board. Nominated by President Clinton, Ferguson is currently a Professor of Mathematics and formerly the President of Grinnell College in Iowa...
  
• National Science Foundation Awards Wellesley $500,000 Grant
  September 30, 1998 -- Wellesley College has been selected as one of ten recipients of the NSF's Awards for the Integration of Research and Education. The award will help advance Wellesley's ongoing commitment to integrating research and education, according to Dean of the College Nancy Kolodny...
  
• Spirituality Conference Draws 750 Participants
  September 28, 1998 -- More than 750 participants discussed religious pluralism, spirituality and higher education at a two-day national conference on the Wellesley College campus September 27 and 28...
  
• Work and Family Conference, November 6-7, 1998
  September 18, 1998 -- On November 6-7, 1998, work-life experts from multiple disciplines will gather in Boston to present research that addresses key questions about the current realities and future possibilities for working families...
  
• Wellesley College Senior, Named One of Glamour Magazine's Top Ten College Women for 1998
  September 17, 1998 -- Chosen from a group of more than 1,000 outstanding young applicants from all across America, Wellesley College senior Jocelyn Benson has been selected as one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Women for 1998...
  
• Wellesley Part of New National Research Center on Prevention of Violence Against Women
  September 2, 1998 -- The Wellesley Centers for Women have been named as one of three educational institutions to collaborate on the establishment of the National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center...
  
• Wellesley College Names New Dean of Students
  June 16, 1998 -- Wellesley College today announced that Geneva Walker-Johnson has been appointed the new Dean of Students. A student life professional with more than 20 years of experience, Ms. Walker-Johnson was selected following a comprehensive national search...
  
• NASA Astronaut and Alumna Delivers Keynote Address at Wellesley College 1998 Commencement
  May 29, 1998 -- Presiding over Wellesley College's 120th Commencement exercises, President Diana Chapman Walsh today presented Bachelor of Arts degrees to 548 women, including 39 Davis Scholars, non-traditional aged students. Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, and NASA Astronaut Pamela A. Melroy returned to her alma mater to address the graduating class...
  
• Pamela A. Melroy '83, Lt. Col., USAF Address to the Graduating Class, Wellesley College
  May 29, 1998 -- Thank you so much for inviting me to share this special day with you. It was fifteen years ago when I sat in your seat; and I'm wondering how many of you are hiding a bottle of champagne under your robe to share, just like I did. Fifteen years ago, I listened to Susan Sontag advise my class to "be bold". Excellent advice, although if she had known me personally she probably would have advised me to "be mellow!"...
  
• Volunteer Literacy Program Celebrated
  May 8, 1998 -- More than 100 kindergartners celebrated the success of a new literacy initiative today with a morning of art, storytelling, and music at Wellesley College. Teachers and students from the Stapleton and Hemenway elementary schools in nearby Framingham joined Wellesley College student volunteers and staff to mark the completion of the first semester of the "Wellesley Words on Wheels" (WWOW) project...
  
• Tennis-Playing, Economics Major is Winner of 103rd Annual Hoop-Rolling Contest
  May 2, 1998 -- An economics major from Unterwössen, Germany, is the winner of this morning's 103rd annual hoop-rolling competition at Wellesley College. Kat Pick, who is also the No. 2 singles player on the College tennis team, was met at the finish line by Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh...
  
• Wellesley College Receives $11 Million Gift to Support International Education
  April 29, 1998 -- Wellesley College announced today that it has received a gift of $11 million to support international scholarship and research, with a particular emphasis on the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The commitment, the largest in Wellesley's history, has been made by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an alumna of the class of 1928 and a trustee of the College who has had a lifelong interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union...
  
• NASA Shuttle Astronaut Pamela Melroy to Speak at Wellesley College Commencement
  March 4, 1998 -- Only the second US woman in the history of NASA to qualify as a shuttle pilot, Pamela Melroy is currently assigned as pilot on the third and last Space Shuttle mission to assemble the International Space Station before a crew occupies the structure...
  
• Wellesley Honors Four with Alumnae Achievement Awards
  February 12, 1998 -- Family planning pioneer Dr. Hilda Crosby Standish '24, children's science author Patricia Lauber '45, textiles scholar Krishna Roy Riboud '49, and biopsychologist Martha McClintock '69 were honored for significant contributions to their professions...
  
• Bipartisan Conference at Wellesley to Examine Women in American Political Activism
  February 12, 1998 -- Ann Lewis, The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Anita Perez Ferguson, Laurel McCloud, Elizabeth Fox Genovese and other prominent women in politics, journalism and grassroots activism will participate in a two-day conference...
  

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1997 Releases

• Wellesley College Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
  December 12, 1997 -- Wellesley College seniors Laura Tavares and Julie Levison have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarships were established in 1904 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes and provide American students the opportunity to attend Oxford University in England...
  
• Tustin Resident Wins Prestigious Award at Wellesley College
  October 3, 1997 -- Juliana Wu, a senior at Wellesley College, has been selected as the winner of this year's Katharine Malone Scholar award, the most prestigious of three Katharine Malone Prizes for Academic Excellence...
  
• Martin Marty to Speak at Wellesley College
  October 3, 1997 -- Martin E. Marty, the nation's leading interpreter of American religion, will deliver a public lecture titled "American Religious Pluralism and the Christian Traditions" at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 9, 1997, at the Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College...
  
• Wellesley College Faculty in the News
  October 1, 1997 -- Wellesley College professor Jonathan Imber was recently named editor-in-chief of the journal Society, a major international publication covering social and political issues from a social science perspective. Imber is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and has published widely on topics ranging from the sociology of medicine to the history of social theory...
  
• Charlton Resident Wins Prestigious Award at Wellesley College
  September 30, 1997 -- Laurie Ann Burlingame, a junior at Wellesley College and the daughter of Joan and Elliot Burlingame of Charlton, Massachusetts, has been selected as the winner of this year's Katharine Malone Sophomore Prize, one of three Katharine Malone Prizes for Academic Excellence...
  
• Dallas Resident Wins Prestigious Award at Wellesley College
  September 25, 1997 -- Brigid Maureen Cohen, a 19-year-old sophomore at Wellesley College and the daughter of Mary and Martin Cohen of Dallas, Texas, has been selected as the winner of this year's Katharine Malone First Year Prize, one of three Katharine Malone Prizes for Academic Excellence...
  
• Wellesley Rated No.1 Liberal Arts College for Asian American Students
  August 15, 1997 -- Wellesley College has been ranked number one among liberal arts colleges for Asian American students by A. Magazine, Inside Asian AMerica. Wellesley was one of fifteen liberal arts institutions to earn a spot in the Magazine's college guide...
  
• Wellesley student celebrates 15 years free of cancer
  May 30, 1997 -- Janet Hostetler, the 1997 Student Commencement Speaker, has been cancer-free for 15 years. Her student address is as follows:...
  
• Architect Rafael Moneo to Inaugurate Davis Fund for World Cultures and Leadership at Wellesley
  April 4, 1997 -- Pritzker Prize-winning architect José Rafael Moneo will speak at Wellesley College on April 16 at an event inaugurating the establishment of the Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership. His lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Jewett Auditorium. The program and the new fund are made possible by a gift from the Davis family in honor of Kathryn Wasserman Davis on the occasion of her 90th birthday...
  
• Wellesley names new Assistant Director of Physical Plant
  April 4, 1997 -- J. Patrick Willoughby has been appointed Physical Plant Assistant Director at Wellesley College where he will oversee grounds operations beginning May 5. Willoughby joins Wellesley following 15 years at Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University where as Superintendent of Living Collections he has managed all aspects of grounds operations of the 265 acre site in Jamaica Plain, MA since 1989...
  
• Wellesley to host women's music conference
  March 20, 1997 -- "Women have always played a crucial role in world music. This inaugural Congress will emphasize women's involvement in the areas of music that have not been celebrated in the past, including Africa, Asia, India and the Caribbean, said Gerdes Fleurant, professor of ethnomusicology at Wellesley College...
  
• Wellesley to host centennial conference remembering Benin
  March 19, 1997 -- One hundred years ago, on August 5, 1897, the African city of Benin in Southwest Nigeria was invaded by a British expedition and surrendered to colonial rule. Thousands of African art objects removed during the invasion were sent to European museums and private collections...
  
• Oprah Winfrey to deliver 1997 Commencement Address
  February 27, 1997 -- Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, actress, producer, philanthropist and business leader, will address the Class of 1997 at Wellesley College's 119th Commencement on Friday, May 30. The ceremonies will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Severance Green in the center of Wellesley's campus...
  
• Bioethicist to speak at Wellesley College
  February 21, 1997 -- "Steps to increase the birth of sons and decrease births of daughters scandalize most North Americans, yet many cultures comfortably subscribe to just such a preference," said Dr. Adrienne Asch...
  
• Alice M. Hummer appointed editor of Wellesley Alumnae magazine
  February 18, 1997 -- An editor and writer with extensive newspaper and book-publishing experience, Alice Hummer was appointed editor of Wellesley magazine following a national search...
  
• "Global Governance" Honored by Association of American Publishers
  February 12, 1997 -- On February 13 the AAP will honor Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization as the "Best New Journal" in business, the humanities, and the social sciences. The journal was founded and is co-edited by Wellesley College political scientist Craig N. Murphy...
  
• Wellesley College Honors Three Alumnae
  February 5, 1997 -- Underwater archaeologist Anna Marguerite McCann, psychologist Cigdem Cizakca Kagitcibasi and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sandra L. Lynch will receive the College's Alumnae Achievement Awards for 1997...
  
• Author Lorene Cary to deliver annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
  February 3, 1997 -- Author Lorene Cary will read from her books, including Black Ice (Knopf, 1991), her memoir of life at St. Paul's Prep School in New England, in which she attempts to unveil factors that divide Americans - black and white...
  
• Mellon Foundation Awards Four Grants to Wellesley College
  January 30, 1997 -- Wellesley College has received an unprecedented four grants in a single year totaling $1,405,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York...
  

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1996 Releases

• Wellesley College President to Meet with Asian Leaders
  December 30, 1996 -- Wellesley President Diana Chapman Walsh will meet with President Lee Teng-hui in Taiwan to discuss liberal arts education for women. She will speak at Taiwan Normal University...
  
• Katharine Malone Prizes for Academic Excellence
  October 6, 1996 -- Juliana C. Wu, a junior at Wellesley College and daughter of Wallace C. and Jian C. Wu of Tustin, California, has been selected as the winner of this year's Katharine Malone Sophomore Prize, one of three Katharine Malone Prizes for Academic Excellence. Winner of the scholarship for the second consecutive year, she received the Katharine Malone First Year Student Prize in 1995. Among the college's highest honors, the Malone prizes recognize outstanding academic achievement combined with accomplishment as a citizen of the college...
  
• Wellesley College Announces New Media Center
  October 1, 1996 -- Wellesley College has received a gift of $2 Million from Cleon T. and Betsy Wood Knapp of Los Angeles, California, to establish the Betsy Wood Knapp Media and Technology Center, a multimedia facility that will enable faculty, students and staff to incorporate advanced computer and electronic technology into teaching and learning...
  
• Wellesley College Receives $1.5 Million for Undergraduate Science Education
  July 24, 1996 -- Wellesley College has received a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to strengthen and enhance its programs in the sciences. One of 52 colleges and universities nationwide receiving a total $45.4 million in four-year grants...
  
• Wellesley College Class of 1996 Major Fellowships and Awards
  June 3, 1996 -- In national competitions, members of the Wellesley College Class of 1996 have been awarded numerous major fellowships and awards including three Fulbright grants,two Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships, a British Marshall Scholarship, two Barry Goldwater Scholarships, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, two Woodrow Wilson Fellowships, and a Mellon Fellowship...
  
• Rafael Moneo Wins Architecture's Highest Honor
  May 1, 1996 -- Rafael Moneo, architect of Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center, has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1996. Conferred annually since 1979 by the Hyatt Foundation, the Pritzker Prize has been described by The New York Times as architecture's highest honor...
  
• Cleveland's Thomas F. Peterson Foundation Establishes Fund For Interdisciplinary Studies at Wellesley College
  April 24, 1996 -- Wellesley College has received a gift of $2.375 million over five years to establish a Fund for Interdisciplinary Studies. The new fund will support faculty partnerships to develop and teach new interdisciplinary courses, and provide grants for students to work collaboratively with faculty on interdisciplinary research and projects...
  
• Wellesley College Student Wins Fulbright Scholarship
  April 23, 1996 -- Wellesley College senior Heather Eaton of West Chester, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant for study in Japan where she will focus on how law shapes the socioeconomic position of women. A double major in political science and economics at Wellesley, Ms. Eaton plans to attend law school upon her return from Japan in preparation for a career in international law with an emphasis on Japanese-American relations...
  
• Wellesley College Student Named 1996 Harry S. Truman Scholar
  April 23, 1996 -- Wellesley College junior Laurel I. Boykin of Bishop, Georgia, has been selected as a 1996 Truman Scholar. Hon. Elmer B. Staats, Chairman of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and a former senior official in the Truman administration, announced that Ms. Boykin is among 58 students from 47 U.S. colleges and universities selected in the first round of competition from among 773 candidates nominated by 392 institutions...
  
• The Legacy of Composer William Grant Still to be Celebrated at Wellesley College
  April 19, 1996 -- The William Grant Still Legacy, a multimedia performance and presentation of the life and music of the dean of African-American composers, will be celebrated at Wellesley College on Tuesday, April 23, at 8:00 p.m. in the Jewett Arts Center...
  
• Marathon's Elite Women Runners Defy Spring Snow To Speak at Wellesley College
  April 10, 1996 -- Eagerly anticipating "The Century Race," just five days away, Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh on April 10 welcomed six of the world's outstanding women athletes to Wellesley to celebrate the 100th Boston Marathon. Defying a late-season snowfall, Wellesley students and marathon fans cheered in a preview of their famed energizing spirit for two-time Boston Marathon defending champion Uta Pippig of Germany; New York City Marathon defending champion Tegla Loroupe of Kenya; #2 ranked U.S. marathoner Kim Jones of Spokane, Washington; Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland, 1995 winner of the Swiss Half Marathon; and Stephanija Statkuviene of Lithuania, 1994 winner of the Reims Marathon in France...
  
• Arts Evening at Wellesley College To Benefit Performing Arts in the Wellesley Public Schools
  April 1, 1996 -- Wellesley POPS (Parents of Performing Students) will hold a gala POPS Night Out: A Festival of Music, Fine Arts and Feasting. The evening's festivities will include performances by Wellesley College and Wellesley High School performing groups...
  
• Writer and Director Nora Ephron to Speak at Wellesley College Commencement
  March 18, 1996 -- Writer, film director, and producer Nora Ephron will return to her alma mater on Monday, June 3 to address the Class of 1996 at Wellesley College's 118th Commencement exercises. The ceremonies will begin at 12:30 p.m. on the Academic Quadrangle. Long before receiving an Academy Award nomination for her screenplay, "Sleepless in Seattle," Nora Ephron's writing for The New York Post, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine and New York Magazine, revealed wry and perceptive observations of relationships between women and men which helped readers laugh...
  
• Bioethicist Thomas H. Murray to Speak on April 2 at Wellesley College
  March 8, 1996 -- How should we think about creating children? Prior to becoming parents, should we use new techniques like prenatal diagnosis or gene therapy? Bioethicist Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., will speak on Tuesday, April 2 as part of the 1995-96 Wellesley College Henry R. Luce Lecture Series in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction. Dr. Murray's talk, "The Quest for the Perfect Child," will discuss questions raised by the availability of prenatal genetic counseling and screening procedures...
  
• International Conference at Wellesley College to Examine the Role of Democracy in a Changing World
  February 28, 1996 -- For two centuries, the struggle for democracy has taken place in the arena of nation states. But now the terrain of politics is changing rapidly and dramatically. Free trade agreements, the integration of financial markets, and revolutionary changes in telecommunications are blurring national boundaries and eroding the sovereign control of national governments. In this new era of globalization, decisions on the testing of nuclear weapons, or whether to increase interest rates to stem inflation, have international consequences. As economists, pundits and world leaders point to a growing backlash against global integration, an international gathering of academics and activists will meet at Wellesley College to explore these issues...
  
• "Hot" Virus Tracker Laurie Garrett to Speak at Wellesley College
  February 22, 1996 -- Sporadic reports of Ebola virus or Lassa fever send chills up the spine, spreading fear of these mysterious and deadly diseases. New breeds of viruses and bacterial infections are emerging from the rain forest with the potential to wipe out entire populations, painfully, in a matter of days...
  
• Conflict and Crisis in the Former Yugoslavia; Wellesley College Wilson Symposium to Focus on Bosnian War
  February 21, 1996 -- The terms "ethnic cleansing," and "mass rape" may be relatively new to the lexicon of war but the brutalities they represent are centuries-old examples of the human capacity for cruelty in the name of nationalism. The tragic events of the last four years in the former Yugoslavia have again brought these issues to the fore, reminding the world of the disturbing regularity with which they recur throughout human history. At a time when the Dayton peace agreement and the deployment of NATO troops to Bosnia have secured a fragile, but promising peace, a symposium to be held at Wellesley College will bring together a distinguished group of activists, writers, scholars and artists to focus on the history of the Balkan conflict, and the prospects for peace and social justice in the region...
  
• Economic Historian Jeffrey Williamson to Speak at Wellesley College on the Implications of Isolationism
  February 21, 1996 -- Jeffrey G. Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will deliver the 1996 Katherine Coman Lecture in Economic History on Thursday, Feb. 29. His talk, "Globalization, Convergence, and History," will focus on how increased globalization has led historically to greater prosperity, particularly for the least affluent countries...
  
• Author Lawrence Graver to Discuss An Obsession with Anne Frank
  February 21, 1996 -- Publication in the United States of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl unleashed a torrent of personal anguish and public controversy for Meyer Levin, who collaborated with Anne's father to bring the book to American readers. In An Obsession with Anne Frank author Lawrence Graver describes how Levin became preoccupied with the project, ultimately destroying his own family life and career. Further, he examines cultural currents in America that became obstacles to Levin's role in telling the story...
  
• Ntozake Shange to Deliver Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture
  February 1, 1996 -- Playwright, novelist, poet and performer Ntozake Shange will deliver the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture at Wellesley College on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 3:00 p.m. in Jewett Auditorium. Ms. Shange's address, sponsored by Ethos, an African American student organization, and Harambee House, the African-American social and cultural center at Wellesley College, is part of the annual celebration of "Quintessence" during African American History Month...
  
• Wellesley College Professor Alan H. Schechter Elected Vice Chair of Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
  January 23, 1996 -- Alan H. Schechter, pressor of Political Science at Wellesley College, has been elected vice chairman of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board which awards Fulbright Scholarship grants and sets policy for the Fulbright international educational exchange programs in the U.S. and abroad...
  

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1995 Releases

• Wellesley College Student Wins 1996 British Marshall Scholarship
  December 14, 1995 -- Wellesley College senior Jennifer McCollum Saunders of Parsons, Kansas, has won a 1996 British Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford University in Britain next year. British Ambassador to the United States Sir John Kerr KCMG on Dec. 12 announced the 40 American college and university seniors selected from among 800 candidates...
  
• Chilean Poet and Wellesley Professor Marjorie Agosin Honored
  November 14, 1995 -- Professor of Spanish Marjorie Agosín has won the 1995 Latino Literature Prize for poetry awarded by the Latin American Writers Institute. The prize was awarded for her book, Toward the Splendid City (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1994)...
  
• Wellesley College Appoints Frank Urbano Chief of Campus Police
  September 28, 1995 -- Francisco Urbano has been appointed Chief of Police at Wellesley College. Chief Urbano was selected following a national search to replace Chief O.J. Clark who resigned last spring to become Director of Public Safety at the University of Illinois...
  
• Wellesley College Names Lee Cuba to New Post as Associate Dean of the College
  July 7, 1995 -- Wellesley College Professor of Sociology Lee Cuba has been appointed Associate Dean of the College for a two year term beginning August 1. In this newly created position, Dr. Cuba will focus on curriculum development and academic innovation...
  

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