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Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Sari Kerr helped fact-check this ‘Motherhood Should Come With a Warning Label’ article, which uses her research.

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau weighs in on a new course at Yale University that focuses on Bad Bunny and how the Latino superstar weaves politics into art.

Phil Levine, an economist who studies financial aid, said competitive incentive won’t stop aid offers from declining but it will be difficult for institutions to maintain what they’re currently doing.

Psychology professor Stephen Chen’s study found the more Americanized children in Chinese immigrant families are, the less likely they understand their parents’ Chinese ways of expressing affection.

Relying on ChatGPT significantly affects critical thinking abilities, according to a study conducted by researchers from MIT Media Lab, Wellesley College, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

A team of researchers, led by MIT Media Lab research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna and including Wellesley’s Ye Tong Yuan '25, studied what happens when people use ChatGPT to write an essay.

Ye Tong Yuan '25 worked on a study with MIT researchers, bringing potential downsides of ChatGPT use to light. The research found the brains of people who used ChatGPT were less engaged than others.

Economics professor Phillip Levine writes: “A giant endowment-tax increase is coming. Whether it merely hampers or severely burdens affected institutions seems to be the only remaining question.”

Jasmine Guillory ’97 writes for the Times about her favorite romance novels that use the “fake dating” trope. Feigned love leads to real connections in these funny, joyful and deeply romantic books.