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Philosophy professor Julie Walsh was featured on Connecticut Public Radio discussing the seventeenth-century witch hunts in Connecticut and the question: are witch hunts truly a thing of the past?

Professor Petra Rivera-Rideau explores Zumba’s vision of Latinness in new book.

“When we limit access to the power of math to a select few, we limit our progress as a society,” said Vicki Abeles, director of the new documentary “Counted Out.” One of many mathematicians who share their perspectives in the film is Ismar Volic, a professor at Wellesley College and a founder, in 2019, of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy.

Well-off families have also drawn more on savings and earnings to keep up with rising college costs, found Wellesley College economics professor and Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Phil Levine.

Mfoniso Udofia ’06, author of the play “Sojourners” which opened October 31 at the Huntington, never intended to become a playwright. After struggling to gain traction as an actor, she “started writing in order to understand the world I was in.”

Catherine Sneed ’25 witnessed the Georgia dock collapse that killed 7. Sneed heard a woman scream, “I can’t swim, help me!” and they held onto the woman until a life jacket appeared. On the ferry, Sneed offered up their navy blue Wellesley sweatshirt.

A Rottweiler was rescued from Lake Waban in Wellesley on Saturday morning after it got away from its owner, chased a group of geese into the water, and began having trouble swimming, police said. Two Wellesley College boats went into the water to rescue the dog, and eventually the dog was reunited with its family and was not injured, police said. “The geese managed to elude the Rottweiler without incident,” police said.

Josh Lambert, professor of Jewish studies, on how three generations after the Holocaust, filmmakers, writers and artists are making new meaning from ancestral trauma.

Wellesley College professor Rebecca Selden examines how various fishing communities can change their fishing habits in order to adapt to climate change.