Summer 2026

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

This Week's Seminar:

This Week's Workshops:

WEEK SIX
July 6-7 8:30am-10:00am	Count Models	Victoria Nazzaro	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 6 10:30am-11:30am	Abstract Workshop	Joe Coolon	Required for all students new to the summer research program Writing for STEM disciplines differs from the writing you will encounter in other courses. STEM writing is structured and intentional. This workshop is designed to introduce you to common structural patterns in STEM abstract writing and help you present your work in the most effective way possible. Frank Center 001 Sign up at this link.
July 6-July 10 3:30pm-5:00pm	Intro to SQL	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 7 10:30am-11:30am	Poster Design Workshop	Anika Dane, Jen Platt	Required for all students new to the summer research program Learn about the considerations that go into making a standout conference poster. How do you design a poster that conveys all the information you want while also being engaging enough to draw people in? What do you need to think about with respect to colors, sizes, imagery, and – of course – content? We'll help you conceive and create the perfect poster for your research and answer your questions about the process. Frank Center 001 Sign up at this link.
July 8-10 8:30am-10:00am	Survival analysis	Victoria Nazzaro	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 8 10:30am-11:30am	Presentation Workshop	TBD	Required for all students new to the summer research program Learn how to verbally share your research concisely and with with clarity, competence, and confidence. Craft an 'elevator pitch' to provide a research overview along with necessary details in under 4 minutes and to varied audiences: peers, advisors, other scientists, non-scientists, and for interviews to schools, jobs, and other programs. Frank Center 001 Sign up at this link.

July 7

1:00pm-2:30pm

The Grant Circle: Peer Strategies for Research Funding

Tsampikos Kottos, Seth Redfield, Sonia Roberts

We're pulling back the curtain on the grant process in a peer-to-peer roundtable that replaces administrative scripts with real-world faculty experience. The conversation will also tackle the modern challenges of navigating politically driven pitfalls and conclude with a vital discussion on the specific advocacy and support faculty need from the University to thrive in this shifting landscape.

This Week's Events:

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).

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