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From how to fix democracy with math to what twins teach us about improving humanity, Wellesley professors are tackling timely topics in recent books.

One morning last fall, Anna Stine-Uchino ’27 stepped out of Pomeroy Hall to head to class. “The air smelled just like California,” she says. “I said to myself, ‘This is a wildfire that shouldn’t be happening here.’”

“Maria,” a new Netflix movie starring Angelina Jolie as opera superstar Maria Callas, is generating large viewership as well as awards buzz. As a psychologist, lifelong opera fan, and biographer of Callas, Wellesley professor Paul Wink says Maria is visually spectacular and raises important issues related to gender and aging.

Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of what our own galaxy might have looked like when it was being born.

For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.

Students collaborate with political science professors to survey the opinions of 18- to 35-year-old voters.

Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau explores Zumba’s vision of Latinness in new book.

Wellesley College professor Rebecca Selden examines how various fishing communities can change their fishing habits in order to adapt to climate change.

A Wellesley College professor is among a team of researchers who’ve discovered a cosmic question mark that may yield answers about how stars are born in galaxies.