• 2025.01.20 Turner booming battery business IMPO Magazine

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    “The price of batteries and renewable generation has fallen so much that batteries and solar and wind, when put together, are so cost-competitive,” says environmental studies professor Jay Turner.

  • 2025.01.20 Carter Jackson keynote speaker Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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    Keynote speaker Kellie Carter Jackson: “I contend that the opposite of violence is not nonviolence, the opposite of violence is the fullness of Black humanity bound together with joy.”

  • 2025.01.20 Carter Jackson World of Wellesley MLK Day Lunch The Swellesley Report

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    More than 150 people gathered at the annual World of Wellesley MLK Day lunch, where Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson spoke on Black resistance and attendees discussed related topics.

  • Bad Bunny standing with the Puerto Rican flag behind him.

    2025.01.19 Petra Rivera-Rideau in Brazil's major newspaper O Globo

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    Bad Bunny Syllabus co-founder Petra Rivera-Rideau was featured in Brazil’s major newspaper about Bad Bunny’s 'Debí tirar más fotos' and the album's political importance.

  • 2025.01.15 Rivera-Rideau Bad Bunny new album Latina Magazine

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    American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau writes that Bad Bunny’s new album is more than a love letter to Puerto Rico: it’s “a rallying cry to address the myriad crises facing [his] homeland.”

  • A woman using a walker walks by a wall of Chrysanthemums.
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    Alum artists share their talents with the Boston public

  • 2025.01.13 Levine endowment tax increase Chronicle of Higher Education

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    Economics professor Phillip Levine on how Trump could devastate our top colleges' finances: “A 35-percent endowment tax would hurt students—and society.”

  • 2025.01.08 McEwan indigenous scholarships La Tercera

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    Patrick McEwan, a professor of Latin American studies and economics, said the indigenous scholarship is a “successful” policy and “unique in Latin America.” Beneficiaries have increased their salaries by 22% and their job placement by 10%.

  • Lillian Goins ’26 and Angelica Delgado ’25 look at each other and chat. They each have books stacked in front of them.
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    The Mellon Mays program offers student researchers mentorship and financial support