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Professor emeritus Larry Rosenwald is a peace activist who has been withholding a portion of his tax payments since 1987. Since Trump’s inauguration he has seen increased interest in tax resistance.

Professor emerita Katharine H.S. Moon traces South Korea’s recent turmoil to the lasting impact of the Cold War and decades of military rule.

Rosa Lafer-Sousa '09 and Matt Brown are fellows at the National Institutes of Health, doing cutting-edge research in neuroscience. They’re also both officers in the fledgling union of N.I.H. fellows.

Professor Jay Turner says tariffs cause uncertainty which will deter companies from making large investments in climate tech. “Uncertainty is a real deterrent to making big bets,” says Turner.

The fourth installment of the series by Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, “Her Portmanteau,” is a work of fiery intensity about the tense reunion and fraught reconnection of a mother and her two adult daughters.

Pell Grant recipients at colleges with large endowments increased nearly 5% points since 2007, per a Brookings Institution analysis by professor and Brookings senior economics fellow Phillip Levine.

Val Gray Ward “was born to lift the words from the page and out of Black life to put Black life into its true perspective,” says professor Liseli Fitzpatrick, one of Ward’s closest collaborators.

Getting an AI summary of your child’s internet usage may be “helpful...but it doesn’t replace the need to have ongoing discussions,” says Linda Charmaraman, Wellesley Centers for Women researcher.

A 2024 survey from PayScale ranks colleges according to a survey with more than 3 million respondents by "mid-career" salary (10+ years of experience). Wellesley is 14 out of the top 20 in Mass.