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Anna Thomas (Wellesley '18): This 28-year-old majored in chemistry. Now she's running for office in Pennsylvania. Here's why.

Lara Dashti ’26 represents Kuwait in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Dashti is the first student-athlete in Wellesley Athletics history to compete at the Olympics while an active member of the Blue.

Professor Emerita Julie Matthaei will be featured in a new documentary about Detroit’s bid to host the 1968 Olympic Games.

President Paula Johnson reflects on the life of philanthropist Jack Connors. “He was definitely a mentor to me,” said Johnson, “and I really consider him a mentor of mentors.”

The practice of marking down tuition prices has few benefits. “It’s not good for anybody. It’s not good for the students. And it’s not good for the institutions,” said economist Phillip Levine.

Economist Courtney Coile, who studies public-pension systems around the world, notes that many countries have enacted recent policy changes, while Social Security is largely unchanged since 1983.

Professor Emerita Susan M. Reverby reflects on the life of Peter Buxtun, the public-health-service-employee-turned-whistle-blower who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: “All hell broke loose.”

Professor and Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman writes about how stricter monitoring of tween and teen internet use may not always be for the better.

“Humans are always paying attention to how bees survive and thrive,” says biology professor Heather Mattila. “We need to understand how we can help them because they do so much for us.”