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“‘Move Over, Mona Lisa’ is a keen investigation into the present and future of global art and literary markets,” says a review in Foreword of sociology professor Peggy Levitt’s new book.

The GBH Daily newsletter features Wellesley’s Global Flora greenhouses in its weekly guide to a free day trip using the MBTA Commuter Rail, which is fare-free Fridays this summer.

This summer, as Wellesley closes out its 150th anniversary and the United States celebrates its 250th, Katharine Lee Bates 1880 stands as an exemplary scholar, activist, feminist, global citizen, community builder, and person unafraid to be herself.

What had begun as a set of urgent repairs to the Margaret Clapp Library grew into a reimagining of how the building might function—not just structurally, but academically and as a more accessible community hub for the campus.

Ruth J. Simmons’s experience as a Guest Junior at Wellesley helped shape the trajectory of her distinguished career, which has included her roles as the first Black president of Smith College; the first Black president of an Ivy League school, when she took on that role at Brown University; and the first female president of Prairie View A&M University.

Upworthy references a 2011 study by psychology professors Jonathan Cheek and Julie Norem, with Jennifer Grimes ’05, about the four types of introvert personalities.

Mackayla Ramdhanie ’26 sees her military career as an extension of civic engagement

An opinion column in Inside Higher Education uses environmental studies professor Jay Turner’s book “Charged” as a metaphor for online learning.

Knowridge reports on a new study co-authored by Wellesley economist Tyler Giles that suggests the loss of community connections may be affecting the rise of so-called “deaths of despair.”