News: 2025
When you think of an apprenticeship, you might think of someone who is training to become a plumber or a carpenter. But apprenticeships can be a valuable option in another field: out-of-school time (OST).
On October 3-5, 2025, 120 leading scholars and practitioners came together for the colloquium "Mothers Without Borders: The Phenomenology of Mothers' Soft Power in Peace Building," convened by Senior International Scholar-in-Residence Hauwa Ibrahim, J.D., S.J.D., M.L.
On September 18, 2025, WCW celebrated the release of This Happened to Me: A Reckoning by Associate Research Scientist Kate Price, Ph.D. Price was joined in conversation by WCW Senior Scholar Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.
NIOST’s Georgia Hall Advises Carnegie Foundation on R&D Agenda to Transform the American High School
Senior Research Scientist Georgia Hall, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), served for two years on the expert workgroup for the R&D agenda, representing the out-of-school time community.
The Wellesley Centers for Women is pleased to announce that the archives of Senior Research Scientist Nan Stein, Ed.D., are now part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College.
Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab, contributed to the American Psychological Association's health advisory calling for guardrails and education to protect adolescent AI users.
At the start of the academic year, five Wellesley College students began internships through the Class of 1967 Internship Program at the Wellesley Centers for Women.
On April 2, 2025, WCW hosted the first Massachusetts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit, a gathering of those who produce and support research and design projects related to the early childhood field in Massachusetts.
WCW is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the Women’s Foundation of Boston to conduct an in-depth analysis of the state of women and girls across Massachusetts, with a particular emphasis on their economic empowerment.
After more than 12 years as the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW), Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., will leave at the end of February to serve as president of the University of Liberia.
