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Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts.Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States.
Roxana Vivian, 1894 – mathematics professor at Wellesley College, the first in her department to hold a doctorate, and Hartwick College. Diana Chapman Walsh, 1966 – former president, Wellesley College; Ernestine Wiedenbach, 1922 – nursing theorist
It became Mount Holyoke College in 1893. Vassar, however, was the first of the Seven Sisters to be chartered as a college in 1861. Wellesley College was chartered in 1870 as the Wellesley Female Seminary, and was renamed Wellesley College in 1873. It opened to students in 1875. Smith College was chartered in 1871 and opened its doors in 1875.
Paula Adina Johnson (born 1959) [1] is an American cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College.She is the first Black woman to serve in this role. [2]Prior to her role as president of Wellesley, Johnson founded and served as the inaugural executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology, [3] as well as Chief of the Division of Women's ...
The following list of people have served as president of Wellesley College, a private women's liberal arts college located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The current president is Paula A. Johnson. [1] Over the past 140 years of Wellesley College's operation, there have been fourteen presidents. [2] All of the previous presidents have been women.
The Wellesley College Botanic Gardens are botanical gardens located on the campus of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.The greenhouses and 22 acres of outdoor gardens include thousands of plants representing over 1,500 different taxa from more than 150 different plant families.
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