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Mathematics professor Ismar Volic examines the flaws inherent in the Oscars’ voting system —and what that shows us about our political elections.

Macy Lipkin ’23 is a finalist in NPR’s 10 best college podcasts in America. The podcast follows a 2023 vote that is challenging oil exploration in the Amazon—and also threatening local people's jobs.

Two professors are using an interdisciplinary lens of population genetics and physiology to study the wet meadows on campus where phragmites—a common reed—have become dominant.

History has been “used to legitimize the regime essentially since the beginning of Putin's rule,” says Cornille Professor Ivan Kurilla. With the war in Ukraine, it “finally took a central place in the state ideology.”

Activist Pashtana Durrani, scholar-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women, runs underground schools in defiance of the Taliban’s education ban.

Implementing class-conscious admissions could protect racial diversity on college campuses, says Prof. Phillip Levine. But, unfortunately, this is easier said than done.

Clinical psychologist and psychology professor Sally Theran comments on the intersection between underage online content creation and the limits of consent.

The Bay State Banner calls the exhibit Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And “an absorbing survey of Lorraine O’Grady’s works in performance, installation, photography, writing, collage and video,” on view at the Davis Museum.