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Ivan Kurilla, U.S.-Russia relations scholar at Wellesley, said Russian/Soviet rulers long saw the U.S. as a nation worth emulating — whether in its economic prowess or its swagger on the world stage.

More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID. Why is there no national day to remember them? History professor Nina Tumarkin says: “We’re bad at memorializing; we’re bad at death to begin with.”

The US now has 24 medium-and heavy-duty EV manufacturing facilities, with nearly $9 billion in investments and almost 34,000 employees, according to The Big Green Machine tracker by environmental studies professor Jay Turner.

The Fulbright Program, the U.S. State Department’s top exchange program, has supported 400,000+ participants since 1946. Wellesley College was a top producer of Fulbright U.S. scholars in 2024-25.

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.”