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Wellesley trustee emerita Ellen Goldberg Luger ’83 is named University of Minnesota regent. The 12-member board controls operations and budget for the five-campus system.

WBUR celebrates Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley class of 1880, literature professor, and author of ‘America the Beautiful,’ on her birthday. Filmmaker John De Graaf is interviewed.

Wellesley Centers for Women researcher, Kate Price, was physically and sexually abused by her father, who also trafficked her to other men. She tells her story in her memoir ‘This Happened to Me.’

Professor Petra Rivera Rideau looks at the message of Bad Bunny’s album and concert residency, the political and historical context behind the work, and how young Puerto Ricans are hungry for change.

GBH radio host Callie Crossley ’73 will be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame, recognizing her “outstanding contributions to the news and media industries.”

Marjorie Agosin, poet and professor who championed Latina writers, was the most “prolific Latin American Jewish woman poet and writer residing in the United States,” said UMich professor Ruth Behar.

The U.S. will lose thousands of highly trained, intelligent professionals to other nations because of Trump’s policies. Professor Kellie Carter Jackson: “It is a huge detriment to American society.”

Economists Melissa Schettini Kearney and Phillip Levine found “changes in how much value people place on different life choices… reflecting a greater emphasis on personal fulfillment and career.”

The once-thriving “battery belt” is faltering. “Projects are being paused, cancelled, and closed at a rate 6x more than during the same period in 2024,” reports Jay Turner’s The Big Green Machine.