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Reinaldo Moya, associate professor of music, is one of 233 recipients of a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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 one of his four-part series for Brookings about financial aid for higher-ed students without financial need, Phillip Levine, economics professor, explains why colleges offer it.

In her book “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance,” Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson opens every chapter with a story from her family, starting with an incident in 1915.

Sari Pekkala Kerr, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, says it’s impossible to know the impact of a $30 minimum wage because it has never increased by that much.

Frida Kahlo’s work might be too costly for Mexico’s government, James Oles, who studies Mexican art, told the Times: “Should they spend money on one Frida? Or should they spend money on repairing museums?”

Linda Charmaraman, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women who specializes in the effects of social media among teens, says on average U.S. kids get a smartphone at around age 10.

Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing research lab, runs digital media workshops for teens. “Some of these teens,” she notes, “can teach the adults a thing or two about AI.”

Economist Sari Pekkala Kerr notes that while some states and cities have raised their minimum wages, the federal minimum wage, last raised 16 years ago, still acts as the floor in 20 states.