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Linda Charmaraman, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women who specializes in the effects of social media among teens, says on average U.S. kids get a smartphone at around age 10.

Sari Pekkala Kerr, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, says it’s impossible to know the impact of a $30 minimum wage because it has never increased by that much.

Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing research lab, runs digital media workshops for teens. “Some of these teens,” she notes, “can teach the adults a thing or two about AI.”

Economist Sari Pekkala Kerr notes that while some states and cities have raised their minimum wages, the federal minimum wage, last raised 16 years ago, still acts as the floor in 20 states.

Recently about 100 Babson, Wellesley, and Olin students and faculty gathered to protest the Trump administration’s deportation policies.

The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a letter to the editor by Writing Program faculty Erin Battat about the recent article “Why It’s So Hard For Professors to Say Anything Good About Academe.”

James Beard award-winning author and food historian Michael Twitty visits Wellesley

Two Wellesley videographers gather advice for incoming students.

Currently director and chief curator of Tufts University Art Galleries, Deitsch will begin work at Wellesley in mid-July.