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...Landscape Architectire Michael J. Blier each coordinated projects with their design firms to win the two awards of excellence. The recipients were selected from a pool of 500 nominees. Van Valkenburgh and his firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, are receiving the award for a seven-year landscaping plan at Wellesley College. The firm is in the midst of redesigning 13.5 acres of the Wellesley campus. According to the society’s website, the plan involves the restoration of the campus’s Alumnae Valley—for the last several years a parking lot?...
Shut down the Wellesley Shaggin’ Wagons? (That may well frustrate some students, but?...
...market for housing futures gets large enough, though, other sorts of financial products more useful to homeowners should crop up, says Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist who has been pushing the idea for 15 years. The grander vision, developed with Karl Case of Wellesley College, includes home-equity insurance. The idea is that companies will write those policies if there's a robust futures market for hedging risk. "Real estate is bigger than the stock market," says Shiller. Twenty trillion dollars big, in fact...
Nannerl O. Keohane, a member of Harvard’s highest governing board and the former president of Duke University and Wellesley College—and a member of the presidential search committee—also told the Boston Globe in March that she is “not available” for the Harvard presidency...
...graduates have a "very impressive" rate of acceptance to medical schools. Carla Valenzuela, 18, who graduated in the spring from Martin Luther King Academic Magnet school in Nashville, Tenn., applied to 13 schools--and wound up picking her last choice. She turned down Amherst, Wellesley and Dartmouth in favor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Part of the draw was being near a big city; part was the offer of a Meyerhoff scholarship, a prestigious, four-year grant for talented high school students studying science and related fields. All 52 Meyerhoff scholars from the class of 2005 went...