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    Economist Phillip Levine tells Inside Higher Ed that colleges award merit aid to attract wealthy students

    Inside Higher Education
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    “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.”

  • Four people—one man and four female students—sit at the front of a room, facing an audience. One student gestures with her hands as the other students laugh.

    Telling Wellesley’s story, together

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    Inside the 150th Community Fund projects

  • Wellesley students cheer on the 2026 Boston Marathon runners. One holds a sign that says “H-O-T-T-O-G-O only 13 more to go”

    Photographer Iris Zhan ’27 captures signs from Wellesley’s Scream Tunnel

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

  • Wellesley College seniors and friends Katherine Stabile (center) and Noelle Perrin (right) celebrate their last Marathon Monday at the Scream Tunnel.

    Wellesley students converged along the Boston Marathon route on Monday to join the College’s famous Scream Tunnel

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    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.

  • Wellesley students cheer and hold signs as they watch the 2026 Boston Marathon

    The Boston Globe includes signs by Wellesley students in their round up of the best signs from Marathon Monday

    The Boston Globe
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    The Boston Marathon on April 20 inspired creativity, as spectators along the route held signs to support the runners. Once again, Wellesley students had some of the best ones.

  • A student throws her head back in laughter while sitting at a table in front of a video camera during an interview.

    Students in POL1 329: Political Psychology invite the community to a film festival April 23

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    The class will show the five short films they made, a first for this course, at Tishman Commons on Thursday at 12:40 p.m.

  • Students cheer on women runners at Wellesley College during the 2013 Marathon.

    Wellesley students pump up the volume at Marathon Scream Tunnel; alums recall memories of race-day camaraderie

    The Boston Globe
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    The Wellesley Scream Tunnel is a Boston Marathon Monday tradition alumnae hold dear. “The energy was just electric,” Laura Wood Cantopher ’84 told the Boston Globe.

  • Chinese calligraphy and painting restorer Jing Gao stands in front of the Ma Gu painting.

    The Davis Museum’s Yuhua Ding talks to Sampan about the painstakingly restored Ming Dynasty painting on view now at Wellesley College

    Sampan
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    Curator Yuhua Ding talks about the 16th-century work: “For people living in the Chinese-speaking world, truly understanding this aspect of their own culture is like lifting a veil of mystery.”

  • Black and white image of a 50s housewife in a kitchen smiling

    Professor Smitha Radhakrishnan talks to NPR about the “tradwife” movement

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    On NPR’s 1A, Smitha Radhakrishnan, a sociologist, discusses what the “tradwife” trend means for modern feminism and what it tells us about the pressures women face today.