Wellesley College News

The college will use the proceeds for several major infrastructure projects, including the extension of steam lines to various parts of campus; maintenance and renovations in residence halls and academic buildings; and modernizations to improve access and sustainability of existing facilities.

In this May 2, 2012 photograph taken in Marks, Miss., Shalendrick Tribble, 19, shows off a tattoo of her son's name in a classroom at Madison S. Palmer High School in Marks.

The state's finance and development agency, MassDevelopment , has issued a $49.8 million tax-exempt bond on behalf of Wellesley College, which will use bond proceeds for several major infrastructure projects.

When the country was involved in World War II, Meadow Ridge resident Marianna Heaney volunteered her time and services to help her country.

Submitted by Sherry Jackson, Needham COA Associate Director If you walk two to four miles, a couple of days a week, then the Needham Senior Center Walking Club is for you.

Favorite quote: "You see things, and you say 'why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say 'why not?' " - George Bernard Shaw Academic achievements: PAGE Foundation STAR Student for high school and county, 2011 Governor's Honors Program participant for mathematics, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society recognition, College Board AP Scholar with Honor, ... (more)

Madeleine Albright is a formidable figure. She was a member of the National Security Council and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. When she became secretary of State in 1997, she was the first woman to hold the position.

Environmental Protection Agency Names All Three Colleges in Wellesley - Babson College, Massachusetts Bay Community College/Wellesley Campus and Wellesley College - Green Power Partners Newswise - The Environmental Protection Agency has named all three of the colleges located in Wellesley, MA - Babson College, Massachusetts Bay Community ... (more)

In 2010, Spiros Stogiannis agreed to take over a friend's ailing pizza shop in South Braintree, using his corporate culinary chops to build his own restaurant out of the formerA PJ's Pizzeria.

Expand your Python skills by working with data structures and algorithms in a refreshing context-through an eye-opening exploration of complexity science.

We're starting off the week with Elizabeth Percer 's coming-of-age debut novel. Percer is a poet, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times for her short stories.

Where is the best place in MetroWest for entertainment? Where is the best play to catch a concert? hear cool jazz? watch a performance? We have five places from five towns competing against each other for this week's title; so cast your vote, and have your voice heard.

The term "income inequality" and the idea of the 99 percent versus the 1 percent became part of the vernacular almost overnight following the explosion of the Occupy movement last year.

Madeleine Albright is a formidable figure. She was a member of the National Security Council and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. When she became secretary of state in 1997, she was the first woman to hold the position.

In an address that mixed humor with wisdom, Madeleine K. Albright, the first female secretary of state, apologized for her generation, which, she said, has left the world in a sorry state.

Nora Ephron. . Biography.com . Retrieved 01:00, May 19, 2012 from http://www.biography.com/people/nora-ephron-212142 Nora Ephron [Internet]. Biography.com; 2012 [cited 2012 May 19]. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/nora-ephron-212142 . Nora Ephron was born on May 19, 1941, in New York City.

The following information was provided by Wellesley College . Lexington resident Sohini Pillai, a senior Theatre Studies and South Asia Studies major at Wellesley College , was awarded a full Fulbright Scholar grant to India where she will conduct research on how the performing arts in India, specifically, different theatrical versions of the ... (more)

Princeton Pro Musica founder Frances Fowler Slade will step down after 33 years as artistic director following Sunday's performance of Bach's Mass in B minor.

Jack Kerouac's influence has rubbed off on the city's current crop of novelists, essayists and non-fiction writers.

Graduation exercises for both Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals high schools are scheduled for this evening in the University of Georgia's Stegeman Coliseum, but some of those who attend Clarke Central's graduation may think they're hearing two different speeches by the same speaker.