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A $20 million wedding in Zimbabwe shows who runs the country, Africana studies professor Chipo Dendere tells Bloomberg. The vice president needs oligarchs’ support as they “hold the party purse.”

Jocelyn Benson ’99, Wellesley’s 2023 commencement speaker and winner of a 2025 Alumnae Achievement Award, wins the Democratic nomination for Michigan governor.

Babson College is one of Town & Country's “Alt Ivies” in part because its partnership with Wellesley offers strong networking and career opportunities.

Neuroscientist Karen Barrett ’06 tells the Conversation that improvising music activates the reward system of the brain.

“‘Move Over, Mona Lisa’ is a keen investigation into the present and future of global art and literary markets,” says a review in Foreword of sociology professor Peggy Levitt’s new book.

The GBH Daily newsletter features Wellesley’s Global Flora greenhouses in its weekly guide to a free day trip using the MBTA Commuter Rail, which is fare-free Fridays this summer.

Wellesley Centers for Women associate research scientist Nyasha Karimakwenda’s opinion piece for Africa Is a Country about homophobia in Africa was translated into French for Courrier International.

Upworthy references a 2011 study by psychology professors Jonathan Cheek and Julie Norem, with Jennifer Grimes ’05, about the four types of introvert personalities.

Knowridge reports on a new study co-authored by Wellesley economist Tyler Giles that suggests the loss of community connections may be affecting the rise of so-called “deaths of despair.”