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    2025.06.26 Phillip Levine on America's aging population Newsweek

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    America’s aging population, coinciding with falling birth rates, has become a growing concern. "Older people today, including baby boomers, live longer than past generations," said Phillip Levine.

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    2025.06.26 Wellesley College value CBS News

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    The Princeton Review is out with its list of the “best value colleges,” and several schools from Massachusetts are on the list. Wellesley College is 22nd.

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    2025.06.25 Lucy Patalano '27 co-wrote post Cato Institute

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    Lucy Patalano '27 co-wrote a post for the Cato Institute on Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Donald Trump, and their agreement that the United States should repeal the federal debt limit.

  • An orange, translucent image of a mother holding her child overlaying a black-and-white picture of a mother pushing a stroller.

    2025.06.25 Sari Kerr article The New York Times

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    Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Sari Kerr helped fact-check this ‘Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label’ article, which uses her research.

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    2025.06.25 Petra Rivera-Rideau on Bad Bunny and politics Connecticut Public Television

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    American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau weighs in on a new course at Yale University that focuses on Bad Bunny and how the Latino superstar weaves politics into art.

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    2025.06.24 Phil Levine on competitive incentive Inside Higher Ed

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    Phil Levine, an economist who studies financial aid, said competitive incentive won’t stop aid offers from declining but it will be difficult for institutions to maintain what they’re currently doing.

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    2025.06.23 Stephen Chen study on Americanized children in Chinese immigrant families Documented

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    Psychology professor Stephen Chen’s study found the more Americanized children in Chinese immigrant families are, the less likely they understand their parents’ Chinese ways of expressing affection.

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    2025.06.20 Wellesley College study on ChatGPT Mashable

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    Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a study conducted by researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

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    2025.06.20 Ye Tong Yuan '25 MIT research USA Today

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    A team of researchers, led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna and including Wellesley’s Ye Tong Yuan '25, studied what happens when people use ChatGPT to write an essay.