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Katie Colaneri ’10 on audio storytelling and investigative journalism.

Phil Levine, a professor of economics at Wellesley College, said that the decreases in Indiana state aid are likely to be especially felt by lower-income students, who saw no substantial increases to their Pell awards with the changes to FAFSA. Meanwhile, the increases to Pell for middle-income students will essentially be canceled out by the proposed cuts.

“It’s OK to work for a dream, and it’s OK to cry and lament when that dream is deferred. But we never stop working toward a goal of justice and liberation,” writes Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson about talking to her kids about the election.

The 2024 recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award are Claire Parkinson ’70, climate change scientist and social justice advocate; Joanne Berger-Sweeney ’79, college president and professor of neuroscience; and Amy Weaver ’89, business leader and...

For 50 years, researchers at what is now the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) have conducted groundbreaking interdisciplinary studies on social issues such as the effects of placing children in child care, gender equity in education, and the role of social media in adolescents’ lives. From the beginning, its mission has been to deploy rigorous academic research to address real-world problems.

My friends, and some of my professors, even, are not on campus with me anymore. But the trees are.

4B is a radical feminist movement that started in South Korea and encourages the rejection of heterosexual dating, marriage and sex, as well as childbirth. According to Katharine Moon, a political science professor emerita at Wellesley College, the biggest difference between budding ideas for what the 4B movement could look like in the United States and what has already existed in South Korea is the centrality of marriage.

Jocelyn Benson '99, Michigan’s secretary of state, fought to restore trust in an election system Trump attacked, only to see it lead to the restoration of a man and a movement that seemed the opposite of almost everything she believes in. As disappointed as she might have been by the national result, her faith in democracy compelled her to accept it. “The will of the people will stand,” she said. “Whatever it is.”

The Boston Globe gives an outstanding review of the first play in The Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06: "It‘s impossible to watch 'Sojourners' without thinking of the late August Wilson, who had a strong working relationship with the Huntington... Wilson’s goal was to capture the complexity and variety of the Black experience. I think he’d find a lot to admire in 'Sojourners,' and in Udofia."