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Leadership Change at the Wellesley Centers for Women
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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.
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New Research & Action Report: Celebrating 50 Years of Social Change
December 2024
This special 50th anniversary edition of the Research & Action Report looks back at some of our most significant accomplishments of the last 50 years—and looks ahead to how our research scientists and project directors are taking that work into the future.
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Induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame
March 2024
Senior Research Scientist Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame alongside Serena Williams, Ruby Bridges, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and six others.
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Lunchtime Seminar March 3, 2011 (64:04 min.)

In this lecture, Amy Banks, M.D. will discuss the “smart vagus” nerve as described by neuroscientist Dr. Stephan Porges.

Amy Banks, M.D. : The Smart Vagus: Understanding the Social Wisdom of the Tenth Cranial Nerve
Lunchtime Seminar March 3, 2011 (64:04 min.)

In this lecture, Amy Banks, M.D. will discuss the “smart vagus” nerve as described by neuroscientist Dr. Stephan Porges. This nerve, part of the autonomic nervous system, is part of a vast network in humans that supports the theory that we are “hard-wired” to connect. Banks is the Director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women and Instructor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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