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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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends the books she’s looking forward to including a new book by Kate Price, associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women.