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  • A woman stands on stage, signing with her hands. Behind her is a screen that reads: Why study name signs in ASL and LSCI? Comparing name sign systems in two closely related SLs makes a good test case for language variation and change with name signs in context of phonology.

    150 years of supporting Deaf academics

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    Wellesley’s remarkable alumnae cohort of Deaf, signing Ph.D.s hold faculty positions at universities around the country

  • Traders at a market in Nakuru, Kenya

    Economist Tsegay Tekleselassie writes in the Conversation about the effects of surging oil prices on African economies

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    Scholars from five African countries, including visiting assistant teaching professor Tsegay Tekleselassie, of Ethiopia, write in the Conversation that the oil price surge hurts African economies.

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    Erin Battat of the Writing Program wrote a letter to the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education

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    The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a letter to the editor by Writing Program faculty Erin Battat about the recent article “Why It’s So Hard For Professors to Say Anything Good About Academe.”

  • A young woman extends her hand to the camera to show a Wellesley bus punch ticket.

    From laundry to the LOCO

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    Wellesley makes college equitable and accessible in thoughtful ways

  • A visitor looks at calligraphy by Luo Sangui of the Daodejing, the classic Daoist text, during the Nanjing 2014 Grand Art Exhibition in Nanjing, China

    Psychology professor Stephen Chen says a Chinese philosopher can teach us about our obsession with college rankings

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    In the Conversation, Stephen Chen, associate professor of psychology, writes that the ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi can inspire us to shift our focus from competition to contentment.

  • Petra Rivera-Rideau, left, and Vanessa Díaz in conversation at the launch party for their new book about Bad Bunny

    Iris Zhan ’27 writes for the Swellesley Report about the launch of American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s book about Bad Bunny

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    Iris Zhan ’27 writes for the Swellesley Report about the debut of American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau and co-author Vanessa Díaz’s book “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.”

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    Wellesley Centers for Women researcher Linda Charmaraman talks to the Guardian about AI school counselors

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    Should schools use AI counselors to track students’ mental health? Linda Charmaraman of the Wellesley Centers for Women says that can be helpful in some ways, but it’s crucial to avoid overreliance.

  • Three women sit on a stage holding microphones.

    “Plant, baby, plant!”

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    Author and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer invited the Wellesley community to rethink their relationship with the natural world

  • Tonja Honsey, center, testifies before a Minnesota state House committee. Honsey has served on the state’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission, the first formerly incarcerated woman appointed to that body.

    In Governing, researcher Tamanika Ferguson says formerly incarcerated women should help make policy

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    “We need to mandate including [formerly incarcerated women] on the bodies that shape jails, prisons, parole, sentencing and reentry,” writes Tamanika Ferguson, a research scholar in the department of women's and gender studies.