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Sociology professor Peggy Levitt writes a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe about how works like “The Odyssey” leave a barren landscape for other cultures’ authors.

An opinion column in Inside Higher Education uses environmental studies professor Jay Turner’s book “Charged” as a metaphor for online learning.

The new purple class arrived on campus August 25

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts celebrates 150 years with a show curated by Dina Deitsch, former director of the university’s art galleries and now head of Wellesley’s Davis Museum.

“Democracy … runs on ideals like freedom, equality, the consent of the governed. But look under the hood and you’ll find … mathematics,” writes mathematics professor Ismar Volić in The Fulcrum.

Jennifer Grossman, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, writes in Ms. magazine that involving fathers in sex education is key to ending maternal burnout.

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau tells Danish News 24 that Puerto Rican Spanish has been perceived as unrefined or inauthentic, but Bad Bunny is changing that.

The Cosmos YouTube channel uses astronomy professor Lamiya Mowla’s images of the Firefly Sparkle Galaxy in “5 Facts About the First Planet Ingredients After the Big Bang.”

Economist Phillip Levine tells the Christian Science Monitor that colleges facing financial struggles need to be concerned about enrollment and generating revenue to cover their bills.