• 2025.02.21 Elena Creef opinions on Michelle Yeoh's success

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    Professor Elena Creef spoke on GBH’s Under the Radar about actress Michelle Yeoh: “It’s taken Hollywood this long to finally give her attention and give her the love that she deserves.”

  • 2025.02.20 Mfoniso Udofia The Grove The Boston Globe

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    ‘The Grove’ expands the Ufot Family Cycle with a humane and moving story. Playwright Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, who grew up in Southbridge, Mass., has dedicated her play to “the young woman I once was.”

  • 2025.02.20 Levine cost of getting a degree The Atlantic

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    “There’s massive problems in higher ed… we focus on all the wrong ones,” said economist Phillip Levine. “We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.”

  • 2025.02.20 Ernestine Fantl Carter landmark accomplishments Print Mag

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    Curator Ernestine Fantl Carter ’27, who spent five years at MoMA in the mid-to-late 1930s, achieved landmark accomplishments, especially in terms of industrial, architectural and graphic design.

  • 2025.02.20 Jane Bolin first African American woman to earn a degree from Yale Law School Poughkeepsie Journal

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    Poughkeepsie School District has named a building in honor of Poughkeepsie native Jane Bolin, who graduated from Wellesley in 1928 and was the first African American woman to earn a degree from Yale Law School.

  • A group of students stand for a photo next to a group of balloons that spell out embark.
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    The Embark! career retreat offers first-year students workshops, conversations with alumnae, and more

  • 2025.02.20 Jay Turner shift from fossil fuels Inside Climate News

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    Environmental studies professor Jay Turner says it's a time of great uncertainty, and he doesn't envy those making multibillion-dollar decisions on projects in planning or under construction amid the shift from fossil fuels.

  • 2025.02.20 Nyla McCranie ’22 public service WBEZ Chicago

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    In her short time at the EPA, Nyla McCranie ’22 helped a central Ohio woman who complained that someone was burning lithium batteries near her rural home, creating an air pollution hazard.

  • 2025.02.18 Laura Pappano ten books to understand public education Substack

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    “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education” by Wellesley Centers for Women writer-in-residence Laura Pappano on list of 10 books to understand this moment.