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“There is a world of opportunity in front of us—if we focus on improving women’s health—to improve health for everyone,” says President Paula Johnson.

Philip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College and one of the study’s authors, said that if colleges can’t support lower-income students with sufficient financial aid to make their degrees affordable, admitting them could prove an empty gesture. “It’s difficult not to support this philosophically, because selective colleges really do have a major socioeconomic disparity problem,” he said. “But this is a resource issue … The financial aid system is already woefully inadequate. It’s just a matter of crunching the numbers.”

"On January 1, 2024, Prime Min­ister Keith Rowley offered a disappointing New Year’s greeting to his nation. It is as though he were speaking about another country at another moment," writes professor Selwyn Cudjoe for the Trinidad Daily Express.

The war in Ukraine has again entered a new phase. With neither side believing that it can make significant territorial gains, the action has expanded beyond the front lines... The attacks are “an acknowledgment of the stalemate,” said Stacie Goddard, an international security expert at Wellesley College. “This is all they can do.”

In this episode of Converging Dialogues, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Wellesley College philosophy professor Helena de Bres about the philosophy of twins. They talk about why people are fascinated by twins, binarizing twins, definitions of selfhood, twins and individuality, and the extended mind. They also talk about twins and love, twins and dating, what twins teach people about objectification, and many more topics.

DEAR WENDY, the forthcoming young adult novel by Ann Zhao '24, has been named one of the Geek Girl Authority’s 10 Most Anticipated Debut Books of 2024. 

A panel of local historians joins Radio Boston to look back on 2023 and tell us what lessons they want taken into 2024. The panel includes Wellesley College professor Kellie Carter Jackson and David Gergen, a former White House adviser to four U.S. presidents and founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Professor Selwyn Cudjoe writes for the Trindad Daily Express: "On Saturday of last weekend, I drove from Boston to Harlem to hear my daughter’s sermon at Rev Al Sharpton’s Action Network Committee (ANC) located on West 145th Street. Her sermon, 'A Visit from Your Future,' traced “the life of a wealthy and ruthless businessman named Ebenezer Scrooge, the major character of Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol."