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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.”

In her short time at the EPA, Nyla McCranie ’22 helped a central Ohio woman who complained that someone was burning lithium batteries near her rural home, creating an air pollution hazard.

“School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education” by Wellesley Centers for Women writer-in-residence Laura Pappano on list of 10 books to understand this moment.

Ye's antisemitism concerns Jewish Studies professor Josh Lambert, as his influence on culture, whether intentional or not, could lead others to follow suit.

The Wellesley Centers for Women and the Women’s Foundation of Boston recently announced that they will be working together to publish a yearlong study on the state of women and girls in Massachusetts.

Economics professor Phil Levine says an increased endowment tax may also hurt the Massachusetts economy: “Fourteen percent would completely change the nature of these institutions,” he said.

Prioritizing areas with higher birthrates sends more federal funding to Republican states: “Clearly this is helping red states,” said economics professor Phillip Levine who studies falling birthrates.

Philosophy professor Erich Hatala Matthes: “Who we are is defined in part by the things that we think are worth caring for, and whether we care for these things, in turn, shapes our sense of self.”