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Grade deflation can disadvantage a college’s students, history professor Nikhil Rao told the Boston Globe, reflecting on Wellesley’s former policy limiting course averages to a B-plus.

Wellesley students were photographed running alongside and cheering for Janice “Rbey” Thomas, the last person to finish the 2026 Boston Marathon.

Associate Professor of Japanese Robert Goree is quoted in National Geographic about Ise Jingu, the Japanese shrine that’s dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years as part of a sacred ritual.

Photographer Iris Zhan ’27 captures moments from Hooprolling, one of Wellesley’s oldest traditions.

The war between the US, Israel, and Iran marks a deterioration in international relations. “We’re really at a low point in a rules-based order,” Stacie Goddard, political science professor, told DW.

Pioneering academic leader Ruth Simmons, who will give Wellesley’s 2026 commencement address, is included in the Globe’s roundup of Boston-area college and university graduation speakers.

“Enrolling more higher-income students provides greater revenue that allows the school to pay their bills,” economist Phillip Levine says, but he adds, “there are definitely equity concerns with that.”

Photographer Iris Zhan ’27 captures some of the best signs from Wellesley’s 2026 Scream Tunnel.

Hundreds of spectators and Wellesley students converged along the Boston Marathon route Monday as part of the school’s Scream Tunnel tradition, a much-needed morale boost near the halfway point.