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"The Incredible Women Making Strides in Science" is an upcoming series highlighting the women changing the fields of astronomy, medicine, physics, psychology, healthcare, and science communication. The series will profile 10 leaders, including President Paula Johnson.

Karen Plaut, Purdue’s executive vice president for research, led a public discussion with President Paula Johnson. This event, Beyond X and Y: Gender Biology and Women’s Health," was part of the Leading the Way interview series run by the Purdue Women’s Global Health.

"In the United States, [Spanish and Portuguese people] are not racialized as Latinos in the same way as people from Latin America," says Petra Rivera-Rideau, professor of American studies. "Latin music as a category that's just language-based — so you don't have to think about race, you don't have to think about national origin, you don't have to think about any of those tricky things that can provoke a lot of contention and just celebrate Spanish — is very convenient."  

Jay Turner, professor of environmental studies, is mentioned in this commentary by California State Representative Devon Mathis of Tulare, Calif. "As Dr. Jay Turner from Wellesley College articulates in The New York Times, the dominance of China over the global supply of minerals needed presents a geopolitical problem. China announced establishing export controls for these vital minerals, putting the vulnerability of the United States and California’s clean energy ambitions in jeopardy of delays and additional costs."

"We are close to the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, and peace and tranquillity are nowhere in sight," writes Africana studies professor Selwyn Cudjoe in his article about the Isreal-Hamas war. 

Paul Fisher, professor of American studies, was interviewed on PBS News Hour about the new Boston exhibit on the painter John Singer Sargent.  

Trailer for the film Stamped From the Beginning. Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson joins other leading female academics and activists such as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Brittany Packnett Cunningham to guide viewers through a searing account of how racist tropes and imagery were developed and enshrined in American culture.

Michael and Denise Kellen '68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Kellie Carter Jackson, is interviewed in a segment on PBS NewsHour about Vice President Kamala Harris's historic tenure. Story begins at 40:15; Professor Carter Jackson's interview begins at 41:35.