Our Faculty

Our dedicated faculty conducts research that breaks new ground, allowing students to experience the thrill of discovery, the satisfaction of solving problems.

Two students and a professor pose for a photos in a stand of phragmites reeds.
Credit: QQ Chua ’22
Reed all about it
A woman looks through a telescope inside Whitin Observatory. She is bathed in red light.
Credit: Jonathan Kemp, Whitin Observatory
At the Whitin Observatory, Astronomy Is for Everybody
Students pose in their hazmat suits.
Credit: Bianca Lee ’24
Trash Talk: How ES 300 tackled Wellesley’s waste problem
Timelapse photo of Whitin Observatory.
Credit: Grace Wilson Jackson ’22
A Stellar Merger: Wellesley’s New Department of Physics and Astronomy
A photo still from a video game showing a humanoid sunflower.
Credit: Emilie Zhang ’24
From Humanoid Sunflowers to the Hornworm: Ruhlman Returns
Professors Julie Walsh and Eni Mustafaraj meet with their research associate CJ Larkin.
Credit: Amber Celletti
Why We Need to Develop an Ethical Approach to Technology