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Mfoniso Udofia ’06 returns to Massachusetts to launch the Ufot Family Cycle, an ambitious nine-play series about three generations of a Nigerian American family

Professor Elena Creef spoke on GBH’s Under the Radar about actress Michelle Yeoh: “It’s taken Hollywood this long to finally give her attention and give her the love that she deserves.”

Angela Johnson ’91, board chair of Old North Illuminated, first saw Old North Church in 9th grade. The church and the Commonwealth made an impression, inspiring her to attend college in Massachusetts.

Poughkeepsie School District has named a building in honor of Poughkeepsie native Jane Bolin, who graduated from Wellesley in 1928 and was the first African American woman to earn a degree from Yale Law School.

Curator Ernestine Fantl Carter ’27, who spent five years at MoMA in the mid-to-late 1930s, achieved landmark accomplishments, especially in terms of industrial, architectural and graphic design.

‘The Grove’ expands the Ufot Family Cycle with a humane and moving story. Playwright Mfoniso Udofia ‘06, who grew up in Southbridge, Mass., has dedicated her play to “the young woman I once was.”

Environmental studies professor Jay Turner says it's a time of great uncertainty, and he doesn't envy those making multibillion-dollar decisions on projects in planning or under construction amid the shift from fossil fuels.

“There’s massive problems in higher ed… we focus on all the wrong ones,” said economist Phillip Levine. “We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.”