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Wellesley College is once again a top producer of Fulbright U.S. scholars and students, receiving 11 Fulbright awards for 2025–2026.

On “Marketplace,” economist Eric Hilt said a previous Fed chair chosen by the president that marked “sort of a dramatic shift in Fed policy” was President Nixon’s selection of Arthur Burns.

Political scientists Stacie Goddard at Wellesley and Abraham L. Newman at Georgetown have written that the president’s policymaking most closely resembles that of 16th-century royal families.

Vermont's independent newspaper calls English professor Dan Chiasson’s new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” “the definitive origin story of a unique political career.”

Vermont’s independent newspaper calls Dan Chiasson’s unauthorized biography “Bernie for Burlington” part origin story, part author’s memoir about the mayor who transformed his hometown.

“Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician” by English professor Dan Chiasson was listed as a “book of note” by New England Literary News.

In “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance,” American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz trace the star’s music and activism.

English professor Dan Chiasson writes the Globe Magazine cover story about Bernie Sanders: “As a teen growing up in Burlington, Vt., I witnessed one of the unlikeliest rises in politics.”

Many alum business leaders majored in economics, but Paula Johnson says just as many majored in political science, art history, Africana studies, East Asian languages, or women’s and gender studies.