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Loyola Marymount University professor Jennifer Ramos receives International Studies Association mentoring award. She has left an indelible mark on the lives of many students, including Priscilla Torres, now an assistant professor of political science at Wellesley College.

Rev. Renita Weems (Wellesley '76) was honored at the second annual Womanists at the Inkwell conference. This year’s theme was Just a Sister Away: Cultivating and Celebrating Sister Circles.

President Paula Johnson reflects on the life of philanthropist Jack Connors. “He was definitely a mentor to me,” said Johnson, “and I really consider him a mentor of mentors.”

Professor Emerita Julie Matthaei will be featured in a new documentary about Detroit’s bid to host the 1968 Olympic Games.

Lara Dashti ’26 represents Kuwait in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Dashti is the first student-athlete in Wellesley Athletics history to compete at the Olympics while an active member of the Blue.

The practice of marking down tuition prices has few benefits. “It’s not good for anybody. It’s not good for the students. And it’s not good for the institutions,” said economist Phillip Levine.

Economist Courtney Coile, who studies public-pension systems around the world, notes that many countries have enacted recent policy changes, while Social Security is largely unchanged since 1983.

Professor Emerita Susan M. Reverby reflects on the life of Peter Buxtun, the public-health-service-employee-turned-whistle-blower who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: “All hell broke loose.”

Professor and Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman writes about how stricter monitoring of tween and teen internet use may not always be for the better.