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    2025.07.01 Wellesley website redesign wins CASE Gold Award CASE

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    Wellesley’s website redesign wins a CASE Gold Award! “So many education institution websites today [are] nearly identical... Wellesley took their design a step further to stand out from the crowd.”

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    2025.06.30 Jay Turner on Trump administration dismantling federal climate policy Newsweek

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    The Trump administration's work to dismantle federal climate policy and clean energy support has already had a dramatic impact on the lean tech sector, according to research by professor Jay Turner.

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    2025.06.30 Paula Johnson advice for graduates The Hechinger Report

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    President Paula Johnson told graduates: “We are in the midst of a degree of meddling that American colleges and universities have not seen since the McCarthy era in the late 1940s and 1950s.”

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    2025.06.29 Andriana Petrykevych '28 and Yelyzaveta Zablotska '28 on Ukraine The Huntington News

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    Andriana Petrykevych '28 and Yelyzaveta Zablotska '28 are both part of the Wellesley Ukrainian Cultural Association. Zablotska said the club has allowed her to build community and help her country.

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    2025.06.28 Mike Wiest theory on consciousness Earth.com

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    A theory suggests that consciousness is a quantum process, connecting us all to the entire universe. Neuroscientist Mike Wiest thinks those tubes may carry quantum information that never stays put.

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    2025.06.27 Jay Turner on firms under Trump administration Chemical & Engineering News

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    Firms are delaying or canceling projects that don’t fit with Trump administration priorities according to the Big Green Machine, Jay Turner’s initiative tracking clean technology investments.

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    2025.06.27 Helena De Bres on twin stereotypes BBC

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    Over the years we have created stereotypes of who and what twins are, perceptions warped by history and pop culture. Philosopher Helena De Bres believes these stereotypes play on human anxieties.

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    2025.06.27 Phillip Levine on endowments The Boston Globe

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    Economist Phillip Levine found that schools with large endowments spend more educating each student than their published tuition, which means that every student, in some sense, receives financial aid.

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    2025.06.26 Wellesley involved in study on ChatGPT Education Week

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    A new study from researchers at MIT, Wellesley, and Mass Art found that giving writers free reign to use AI as much as they wanted led to some bleak outcomes including lower brain activity.