• A photograph of Wellesley’s Lulu Chow Wang campus center

    Travel + Leisure magazine says Wellesley is one of the most beautiful U.S. colleges

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    Wellesley College’s campus is named one of the most beautiful in the United States by Travel + Leisure magazine.

  • A 44-year-old single mother by choice stands with her two children by a swing set.

    Professor Rosanna Hertz speaks to NPR about how IVF has led to a record number of single moms in their 40s

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    Single women see IVF as a Plan B when they are ready to be moms, says Rosanna Hertz, sociology professor and author of “Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice.”

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    Paul Krugman cites a recent paper co-written by political scientist Stacie Goddard

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    In writing about the looting of U.S. foreign policy, Paul Krugman references a new paper on neo-royalism and the Trump administration co-authored by political scientist Stacie Goddard.

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    Wellesley’s Russian Department celebrates 80 years

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    Professor Stacie Goddard on what’s driving Trump’s moves in Venezuela and Greenland

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    For Politico, political science professor Stacie Goddard joined Georgetown's Abraham Newman to discuss why the president is focused on controlling Venezuela and Greenland.

  • Pop star Bad Bunny performs in a fog of blue smoke

    American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau talks to the AP about Bad Bunny

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    Petra Rivera-Rideau, associate professor of American studies, says reggaetón artist Bad Bunny’s six Grammy nominations are noteworthy because institutions often ignore marginalized genres.

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    Wellesley president Paula Johnson defended the role of liberal arts colleges in the Globe

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    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.

  • An older man sits alone in a church pew in a mostly empty church.

    Tyler Giles, associate professor of economics, examined what happened when states abolished blue laws

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    Scientists from Wellesley College, the University of Notre Dame, and The Ohio State University examined what happened when states abolished blue laws that prohibited most retail activity on Sundays.

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    Grace Atherton ’15 and Alex Cox first met as members of the Harvard University Band

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    Thanks to inter-school cross-registration, Grace Atherton ’15 and Alex Cox first met as members of the Harvard University Band. She played the clarinet, he played the trumpet.