• Headshot of Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Isabel Wilkerson
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    Wilkerson, whose boundary-breaking nonfiction has earned her both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, will deliver the address at the College’s 147th commencement ceremony on May 16

  • Graduate from Asian University for Women throw up their mortar boards to celebrate their graduation.
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    Fellowship sends recent grads to teach at Asian University for Women

  • 2025.03.11 Phillip Levine opinions on higher endowment tax The Boston Globe

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    Opinion piece by economist Phillip Levine: “Increasing the college endowment tax would hurt New England. Such a move would weaken leading higher education institutions and damage the broader economy.”

  • Hannah Albrecht ’25 (left) speaks with a visitor during open studio night.
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    Seniors create community in their advanced studio art seminar

  • 2025.03.09 Adam van Arsdale replacement of Neanderthals by Homo Sapiens The Jerusalem Post

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    Professor Adam van Arsdale reflects on researchers precisely dating Lapedo child, Neanderthal-Human hybrid, and how the process of replacement of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens may have played out.

  • 2025.03.08 Selwyn Cudjoe Trinidad and Tobago politics Trinidad Daily Express

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    Professor emeritus of Africana studies Selwyn Cudjoe reflects on the People's National Movement (PNM) in Trinidad and Tobago and their “obtuse rationalizations.”

  • 2025.03.07 Bunny Harvey’s paintings Art Scope Magazine

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    Art professor emerita Bunny Harvey’s paintings have a “level of intensity that invites the viewer to engage, connect and discover a unity with the natural world beyond the scope of spoken narrative.”

  • 2025.03.05 Ivan Kurilla Russia saw US as a nation worth emulating The New York Times

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    Ivan Kurilla, U.S.-Russia relations scholar at Wellesley, said Russian/Soviet rulers long saw the U.S. as a nation worth emulating — whether in its economic prowess or its swagger on the world stage.

  • 2025.03.01 Nina Tumarkin COVID death memorial The Boston Globe

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    More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID. Why is there no national day to remember them? History professor Nina Tumarkin says: “We’re bad at memorializing; we’re bad at death to begin with.”