Summer 2026

Consult the calendar for all events including seminars, workshops, and social activities. 

This Week's Seminar:

This Week's Workshops:

WEEK SEVEN

July 13-15

8:30am-10:00am

Mixed/HLM models and exercises

Jennifer Rose

QAC workshops have limited seats open to students outside the apprenticeship program. Contact individual instrctors to sign up. You must attend all sessions of a topic.

Allbritton 204

July 13-15 10:00am-12:00pm

Drop In

Workshopping the Symposium

Joe Coolon, Anika Dane 

Drop-in hours for students with questions about abstract writing, poster design, and research talks. Bring your drafts for feedback and advice!

Exley 189 | The Fishbowl

Sign up available but not required: 13, 14, 15

July 13 10:00am-12:00pm

 

Laser Cutting Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 6 seats

Come learn the laser cutter in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 13 12:00pm-2:00pm

 

3D Printing Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 6 seats

Come learn the 3D printer in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 14 10:00am-12:00pm

 

Small Woodworking Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 4 seats

Come learn small woodworking in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 14 12:00pm-2:00pm

 

Production Woodworking Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 4 seats

Come learn production woodworking in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

June 15

12:00pm-2:00pm 

Origami Animals

 Ben Parker

Limited to 8 seats

Come join Ben for some origami animal folding. This will be a low-intensity group folding session with a number of origami books and lots of paper, and Ben can walk participants through folding their favorite animals!

IDEAS Lab

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 13-July 17

3:30pm-5:00pm

AI tools for data analysis

Jennifer Rose,  Antonio Laverghetta

QAC workshops have limited seats open to students outside the apprenticeship program. Contact individual instrctors to sign up. You must attend all sessions of a topic.

Allbritton 204

July 16

8:30am-10:00am

Cluster Analysis

Pavel Oleinikov

QAC workshops have limited seats open to students outside the apprenticeship program. Contact individual instrctors to sign up. You must attend all sessions of a topic.

Allbritton 204

June 16

11:30am-1:30pm 

Origami Engineering Designs

 Ben Parker

Limited to 8 seats

Come learn some of the fundamentals of using folding for engineering purposes. Things that collapse and then deploy. 

IDEAS Lab

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 17

8:30am-10:00am

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Pavel Oleinikov

QAC workshops have limited seats open to students outside the apprenticeship program. Contact individual instrctors to sign up. You must attend all sessions of a topic.

Allbritton 204

July 17 10:00am-12:00pm

 

Waterjet Cutting Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 4 seats

Come learn waterjet cutting in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 17 12:00pm-2:00pm

 

Resin Printing Certification

Ben Parker

Limited to 4 seats

Come learn production woodworking in the IDEAS Lab! Participants will get a walkthrough of the safety, use-case, and procedure for using the equipment, and receive a badge for its use at the end of the class.

First come, first served (email Ben for more info)

July 14

1:00pm-2:30pm

 Get Game Ready With Stellic Rachael Barlow

Get game ready with Stellic. We’ll meet you where you are—covering foundational skills, sharing practical tips, and exploring new features, including the registration system (if available). Designed to help you build confidence and use Stellic more effectively in your day-to-day work.

Sign up at this link.

 

This Week's Events: 

Summer Stargazing

Join the astronomy department for summer stargazing Tuesday, July 14, 9:30pm. Please complete this form to RSVP.


S’more Self-Care Pop-Up 

Take a break from your day and hang out at the S’more Self-Care Pop-Up on July 15 from 1-3 p.m. on the WesWell lawn and lounge. There will be s’mores, tie-dye, DIY sensory jars, friendship bracelets, giveaways, and other low-pressure ways to relax, reset, and connect with other students. Come for a snack, make something fun, stay for a few minutes or the whole time. No registration needed. Gluten-free graham crackers and vegan marshmallows will be available.

 

Every Wednesday at 2:30pm, we will have ice cream and games available on the Exley Patio (Lawn Ave side). Activities will continue through the hour, with ice cream available until it's gone. These weekly summer breaks for ice cream are open to all students on campus, provided through the generosity of:

  • the College of Integrative Sciences and the summer research program
  • the Fries Center for Global Studies
  • the Office of Graduate Student Affairs
  • the Office of International Student Affairs
  • the Wesleyan Writers Room

See you there!

June 17 . June 24 . July 1 . July 8 . July 15 . July 22

NOTE: In cases of rain or extreme heat, we will be inside Exley Lobby. 

Online Events

Inspiring Students Through a Suborbital Space Flight Experince with Ron Rosano

What's it like to float weightless and view Earth from space? How can that experience be made meaningful to students? Find out about that and more with longtime informal space and astronomy educator Ron Rosano as he relates how his Virgin Galactic flight experience can help you bring inspiration to your learners.

Tuesday 7/14,  7pm - 8pm ET, FREE Registration! REGISTER HERE

Science for Whom? Ethics, Values, and the Work of Community Engagement

Speakers: Dr. Natasha M. Udu-gama and Dr. Mackenzie Graham

Event Date and Time: Wednesday, July 22nd, 12-1pm ET (on Zoom)

Registration Link: Register Here

About the Webinar: Every research project embeds values, whether in the questions scientists choose to ask, the communities they partner with (or don’t), or the ways their findings get used. Making those values visible is tricky–even trickier is bringing this understanding into your research. In this fireside chat, Oxford bioethicist Dr. Mackenzie Graham and community science practitioner Dr. Natasha Udu-gama will bring complementary perspectives on this challenge. Graham explores how ethical questions arise in everyday scientific practice, sometimes uncomfortably, and what it takes for scientists to engage with these ethical questions honestly. Udu-gama draws on experience building community science partnerships to create dialogue, trust, and space for community priorities and mutual learning. Together, they will explore how scientists can approach research that is grounded in ethics, trusted by communities, and conducted for effective service to society.

About the Speakers: Dr. Natasha M. Udu-gama is a highly accomplished expert with over 11 years of experience in community science program development and partnership building. During her tenure with the American Geophysical Union (AGU), she was instrumental in growing the Thriving Earth Exchange program from five to 370 community science partnerships globally. Concurrently, she's applying her skills and learning new ones to develop a conscious creative business enterprise in collaboration with her music producer/author husband. Dr. Mackenzie Graham is a Senior Research Fellow at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. His research is primarily in bioethics and data ethics, and he has a particular interest in the philosophy of trust. He received his PhD in Philosophy in 2016 from Western University in Canada, where his research examined the moral status and well-being of patients with disorders of consciousness.

Event Host: Funded by the Kavli and Rita Allen Foundations, the ComSciCon SEEDS program is creating a resource for early-career scientists looking to impact the world beyond academia. By curating stories of researchers navigating the ethical and societal implications of their work (efforts often unsupported by traditional institutions), SEEDS provides the insights needed for scientists to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

We hope you can join us for this engaging conversation!

Natural Products and Drug Design from Accra to America

The Hillary Rodham Clinton Center of Wellesley College and the Ghana Chemical Society are excited to welcome to you to this global symposium highlighting cutting edge research on natural products and drug design.

Starting on June 9, we will host monthly hour-long webinars that bring together invited speakers from Ghana and the United States. All sessions will occur at noon Eastern US time. You can view the schedule for these talks HERE with Zoom webinar links.

Please send any questions about the sessions to Don Elmore (delmore@wellesley.edu) or Michael Baah Mensah (michael.mensah@knust.edu.gh).

If you have a webinar to share, please email Anika (adane@wesleyan.edu).