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During an interview on the Jimmy Fallon, Fallon and Bad Bunny mentioned American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau's seminar on Bad Bunny (which he would like to take!). Wellesley mention begins at approximately 4:00.

When war broke out in Ukraine last year, Federal Reserve officials were quick to speak about it. “Many of the impacts of the horrific events and what we’re seeing at the moment are beyond the economic ones,” Susan Collins, the current president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said during an event hosted at Wellesley College earlier this month. Nevertheless, the conflict is something the Fed will take into account in its models that help officials make policy decisions, she said.

This year marks two decades since the Boston Women's Memorial was installed. Visitors are now able to scan a QR code on each of the statues and hear the words written by the three women read aloud by three local women leaders. It's called the Talking Statues project and Nancy Hall, senior lecturer emerita in Spanish, did a translation for the project. 

"We need more Black biographies....Yale University Press’s new “Black Lives” series seeks to address this hard truth. Over time, it plans to publish a set of biographies of remarkable but overlooked Black figures. Fittingly, the first in this series is R.J.M. Blackett’s book on the abolitionist, newspaper editor, and minister Samuel Ringgold Ward," writes Kellie Carter Jackson, professor of Africana studies.

Is Taylor Swift about to be in her ‘overexposed’ era? Tracy Gleason, the chair and professor of psychology at Wellesley College and an author of a paper on parasocial relationships thinks the fans at the Giants game who booed her ad, for instance, might have done so because she’s dating a player on a rival team. “Who knows, though,” she added. “Maybe they are Swifties but just want to keep each of the things they enjoy in their own lane: Taylor belongs on the stage and football belongs in the arena.” 

Seminars have been dedicated to Bad Bunny at Wellesley College, the City University of New York, and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. You can consult part of its teaching program, compiled by the professors of the genre Vanessa Diaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau.  

Journalist Amy Yee '96, published her debut book, "Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees." For 14 years, Yee, followed Tibetan exiles to provide, as she describes, “a close-up look at the lives of ordinary Tibetans in exile who make their way in the world far from their homeland.”

Claudia Goldin has illuminated issues like the gender gap in pay, child and elder care and the lack of women economists... These impacts persist, according to Sari Kerr, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women and lecturer in economics, who co-authored a working paper with Goldin on women in the workforce and the career gap. “We still have the perpetual question of how to afford day care, child care and elder care,” Kerr said. “And since that care burden is so unevenly distributed still between men and women, and how to manage that are big questions, certainly.”

The course is called “Bad Bunny and Resistance in Puerto Rico,” which highlights the superstar’s impact on politics, music and society as a whole. Loyola Marymount University has also launched the Bad Bunny Syllabus with Petra Rivera-Rideau, an associate professor of American Studies. It's described as an open educational project that provides resources for other professors and Bad Bunny fans from around the world.