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    2025.07.29 Jay Turner on closing projects Politico

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    “Projects are being paused, cancelled, and closed at a rate 6x more than during the same period in 2024,” states The Big Green Machine, Jay Turner’s website that tracks U.S. clean energy investments.

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    2025.07.29 Chipo Dendere and Kellie Carter-Jackson on Trump's brain drain Time

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    Professors Chipo Dendere and Kellie Carter-Jackson write for TIME about the dangers of Trump’s brain drain: “In short, countries push enormous artistic or scientific talent out at their own expense.”

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    2025.07.28 Victoria Wang on becoming a tenured professor The New York Times

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    Economist Victoria Wang, a recent Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, said she was thrilled to land a tenure-track position at Wellesley after sending out 386 applications.

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    2025.07.27 Ismar Volic on math education The Washington Post

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    Bad math education means we are “scared of math, and therefore not in the habit of questioning it, scrutinizing it or looking at it critically,” says Ismar Volic. “Politicians absolutely know this.”

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    2025.07.25 Angela Bahns on American friendships PsyPost

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    Most American friendships happen between people with similar political beliefs, according to new research by professor Angela Bahns, director of the Prejudice Reduction and Friendship Diversity Lab.

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    2025.07.25 Philip Levine on avoiding endowment tax Mass Live

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    Four Massachusetts elite liberal arts schools avoided a big Trump tax, and may have an unlikely ally to thank for it––Hillsdale College. “We dodged a bullet,” said economics professor Philip Levine.

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    After losing her Altadena home to wildfire, Lynn Sternberger ’07 reflects on loss, accountability, and what it means to rebuild a community.

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    In the College’s new Narrative Lab, students look deeply into how narratives are constructed and the ways they create meaning.

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    As the College enters its sesquicentennial year, E.B. Bartels ’10 got to the bottom of some of Wellesley's most famous lore.