Ye Tong Yuan '25 worked on a study with MIT researchers, bringing potential downsides of ChatGPT use to light. The research found the brains of people who used ChatGPT were less engaged than others.
2025.06.20 Ye Tong Yuan '25 MIT research USA Today
A team of researchers, led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna and including Wellesley’s Ye Tong Yuan '25, studied what happens when people use ChatGPT to write an essay.
2025.06.20 Wellesley College study on ChatGPT Mashable
Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a study conducted by researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
2025.06.19 Narges Bojoghli ‘04 on changes in Iran Time
Narges Bojoghli ‘04, anthropology/middle east studies professor at John Hopkins: “The most ardent proponents of regime change in Iran may be accelerating the very nuclear program they claim to fear.”
Historian Kellie Carter Jackson joins CBS Mornings to explain the origins of Juneteenth and how it fits into the broader story of Black resistance, as explored in her new book, “We Refuse.”
2025.06.18 Phil Levine tuition price calculator Inside Higher Ed
Economist Phil Levine developed his price calculator to help families understand the cost of a degree without deciphering complex aid formulas. Colleges are queuing up to use it.
“If you’re not from a high-income family, there’s not a lot to look forward to in terms of college costs going forward, given these policies,” says economist Phil Levine, who studies college pricing.
Professor Jennifer Chudy says “explicitly racialized politics” have become normalized: “I think the person in the White House has emboldened people who may have felt silently sympathetic in the past.”