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“At long last—this is your time!”

For 40+ years, the Elliot Norton Awards have honored the best of the best on stage in Greater Boston. Among this year's nominees are several plays in the Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06.

This past weekend, members of Wellesley’s COVID class of 2020 officially graduated. Here & Now producer Kalyani Saxena ’20 was one of them, and she reflected on that rite of passage with Asma Khalid.

“What attracted me was the drum, but what kept me there was the community.”

Families, friends, faculty and staff celebrated graduates during Wellesley’s 147th commencement exercises.

Economist Phillip Levine never heard of a college adopting a wait-and-see budgeting approach like Swarthmore’s. “It’s a creative solution… idiosyncratic of the times that we are currently living in.”

The proposal threatens to cost Harvard about $850 million a year, Yale $690 million year, and Princeton $586 million a year, according to estimates by economics professor Phillip Levine.

Around the world, people are retiring later. How do you decide when it’s time? And what comes next? We talked to Wellesley experts to find out what they are thinking.

From how to fix democracy with math to what twins teach us about improving humanity, Wellesley professors are tackling timely topics in recent books.