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Three new shows at the Davis Museum highlight the college’s holdings. The largest, ‘Better on Paper,’ indicates what its contents — books, prints, drawings, photographs — have in common.

Professor Kellie Carter Jackson on how DEI attacks thicken glass ceilings: “Rolling back diversity, equity and inclusivity measures could drastically delay the next generation of boundary breakers.”

Opinion piece by economist Phillip Levine: “Increasing the college endowment tax would hurt New England. Such a move would weaken leading higher education institutions and damage the broader economy.”

Professor Adam van Arsdale reflects on researchers precisely dating Lapedo child, Neanderthal-Human hybrid, and how the process of replacement of Neanderthals by Homo sapiens may have played out.

Professor emeritus of Africana studies Selwyn Cudjoe reflects on the People's National Movement (PNM) in Trinidad and Tobago and their “obtuse rationalizations.”

Art professor emerita Bunny Harvey’s paintings have a “level of intensity that invites the viewer to engage, connect and discover a unity with the natural world beyond the scope of spoken narrative.”

Ivan Kurilla, U.S.-Russia relations scholar at Wellesley, said Russian/Soviet rulers long saw the U.S. as a nation worth emulating — whether in its economic prowess or its swagger on the world stage.

More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID. Why is there no national day to remember them? History professor Nina Tumarkin says: “We’re bad at memorializing; we’re bad at death to begin with.”

The US now has 24 medium-and heavy-duty EV manufacturing facilities, with nearly $9 billion in investments and almost 34,000 employees, according to The Big Green Machine tracker by environmental studies professor Jay Turner.