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Psychology professor Tracy Gleason studies imaginary friends, and says they take the form of an object the child “animates and personifies”––a stuffed animal, a doll, or even a can of tomato paste.

“If we’re going to make a clean energy transition,” says professor Jay Turner, “it will require deploying electric vehicles, batteries, wind turbines and solar panels at unprecedented scales”

“We’re talking about someone who was on a meteoric rise and then was accused and found guilty of assault, and his career basically ground to a halt,” said dean of academic affairs Michael Jeffries.

“Her Portmanteau” by Mfoniso Udofia ’06 explores the idea of birthright through a fraught reunion of a mother and her two daughters after years of separation. “What is each woman owed?” asks Udofia.

Three new shows at the Davis Museum highlight the college’s holdings. The largest, ‘Better on Paper,’ indicates what its contents — books, prints, drawings, photographs — have in common.

Professor Kellie Carter Jackson on how DEI attacks thicken glass ceilings: “Rolling back diversity, equity and inclusivity measures could drastically delay the next generation of boundary breakers.”

Wilkerson, whose boundary-breaking nonfiction has earned her both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, will deliver the address at the College’s 147th commencement ceremony on May 16

Fellowship sends recent grads to teach at Asian University for Women

Seniors create community in their advanced studio art seminar