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The Mathematical Association of America announces that professor of mathematics and director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy Ismar Volić has been awarded the 2025 Euler Book Prize.

This past weekend, members of Wellesley’s COVID class of 2020 officially graduated. Here & Now producer Kalyani Saxena ’20 was one of them, and she reflected on that rite of passage with Asma Khalid.

For 40+ years, the Elliot Norton Awards have honored the best of the best on stage in Greater Boston. Among this year's nominees are several plays in the Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06.

The proposal threatens to cost Harvard about $850 million a year, Yale $690 million year, and Princeton $586 million a year, according to estimates by economics professor Phillip Levine.

Economist Phillip Levine never heard of a college adopting a wait-and-see budgeting approach like Swarthmore’s. “It’s a creative solution… idiosyncratic of the times that we are currently living in.”

Economics professor Phillip Levine calculated that nine schools would hit the top tax rate, and Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, and MIT would each owe more than $410 million in taxes a year.

60 college presidents, including Paula Johnson, are sharing messages about civic discourse, democratic participation, and free expression to inspire grads to think critically and engage with empathy.

Wellesley's 2025 Commencement speaker was Isabel Wilkerson, journalist who has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste.”

A 14 percent endowment tax—in the middle range of the proposals—would cost Harvard, for example, about $560 million a year, according to an analysis by economics professor Phillip Levine.