Wellesley in the News
As the leading women’s college, Wellesley’s faculty, students, and alumnae are featured in national and international media on a daily basis. Below is just a sampling of the press coverage generated by Wellesley.
The Connection Crisis: Craving Friends At Work And How To Bring Back Belonging: "... common interests are one of the primary sources of friendship, according to a study at Wellesley College, and work also gives you a natural avenue to come together with shared passions."
Article by Tracy Gleason about the power of playing pretend: “As a psychologist interested in these questions, often having the opportunity to visit kindergarten classes, I have met many children for whom an imaginary friend or the imitation of a character was more than just entertainment. . These activities often reflected the issues that concerned them.”
A fund apologizes for its role in the Tuskegee syphilis study that targeted Black men: historian Susan M. Reverby, who wrote a book about the study, researched the Milbank Fund's participation at the fund's request. She said its apology could be an example for other groups with ties to systemic racism. '"It's really important because at a time when the nation is so divided, how we come to terms with our racism is so complicated," she said. "Confronting it is difficult, and they didn't have to do this. I think it's a really good example of history as restorative justice."
Lincoln gets way too much credit for freeing enslaved Black people: opinion piece by Kellie Carter Jackson.
Paula A. Johnson was awarded an honorary degree at the UMass Chan Medical School's 49th Commencement on Sunday, June 5, 2022. Watch the video made for the occasion honoring her life and accomplishments.
"This is a fundamental change in the whole framework for thinking about how to measure inflation," said Daniel Sichel, the chair of the panel and an economist at Wellesley College who spent 20 years at the Federal Reserve.
Nationwide there was a baby bust of 62,000 fewer conceptions in the early part of the pandemic—late winter and early spring of 2020—but then a rebound later in the year of 51,000 as parents changed their minds about the feasibility of having children under pandemic conditions, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in April. Many of those later rebound conceptions resulted in 2021 births, co-author Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, told Stateline.
The Trump-endorsed Dr. Oz recently won the Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania. One reason the doctor is so popular, despite the many critics who say he promotes unscientific therapies and cures, is his many appearances on Oprah Winfrey's long-running daytime talk show. Kellie Jackson, historian, associate professor of African Studies, Wellesley College and host and executive producer of the Oprahdemics podcast, and Leah Wright Rigueur, associate professor of history, Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the Oprahdemics podcast, talk about Oprah's role in giving Dr. Oz a platform, what he became and if she has any responsibility to speak out.
Kellie Carter Jackson's new podcast "Oprahdemics" looks at cultural impact of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
