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A study shows that voters rated political candidates wearing glasses more competent.. Economist Olga Shurchkov cautions that this kind of snap judgment happens only when voters know almost nothing else about a person.

On “Morning Edition,” Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of Africana studies, discusses Quock Walker, an enslaved man in Massachusetts who sued to gain his freedom and ultimately freed others.

Mamo is a distinguished scholar and author, “institution builder,” and academic mentor

The Arts Fuse reviews sociology professor Peggy Levitt’s new book, “Move Over, Mona Lisa,” in which she maps the “inequality pipeline” linking museums, publishing, and academia.

Visiting researcher Tamanika Ferguson and co-authors write in Open Global Rights that conservative governments and organizations use human rights language as a smokescreen for regressive ideology.

Harukai Murakami says his time at Wellesley affected his new novel: “[W]omen’s perspectives are being valued very highly, and I think breathing in that kind of atmosphere also had an influence.”

Colorado’s KRDO tells the story of Katharine Lee Bates, class of 1880, and the trip to Pikes Peak that inspired her to write “America the Beautiful.”

A Colorado trip inspired “America the Beautiful,” by Katharine Lee Bates, class of 1880, a Wellesley English professor who was a social reformer, antiwar activist, and defender of women’s rights.