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Hundreds of spectators and Wellesley students converged along the Boston Marathon route Monday as part of the school’s Scream Tunnel tradition, a much-needed morale boost near the halfway point.

The Boston Marathon on April 20 inspired creativity, as spectators along the route held signs to support the runners. Once again, Wellesley students had some of the best ones.

The class showed five short films they made, a first for this course.

The Wellesley Scream Tunnel is a Boston Marathon Monday tradition alumnae hold dear. “The energy was just electric,” Laura Wood Cantopher ’84 told the Boston Globe.

Curator Yuhua Ding talks about the 16th-century work: “For people living in the Chinese-speaking world, truly understanding this aspect of their own culture is like lifting a veil of mystery.”

On NPR’s 1A, Smitha Radhakrishnan, a sociologist, discusses what the “tradwife” trend means for modern feminism and what it tells us about the pressures women face today.

The annual springtime conference showcases student and faculty academic research

Economics professor Phillip Levine is quoted in Reuters’ coverage of a new report on U.S. fertility rates. He noted factors making younger women less interested in having children.

In part two of economist Phillip Levine’s series for Brookings about financial aid for students without demonstrated financial need, he explores how widespread this practice is among colleges.