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Last month, Kyiv’s troops finally made modest but meaningful gains, piercing Russia’s first line of defense in the southeast. Ukraine’s military in recent days says it has retaken two more villages in the east. “Offenses are not linear affairs,” said Stacie Goddard, professor of political science and associate provost for Wellesley in the World.

NPR's 'Wait Wait' for September 16th is joined by Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative and Pete Davidson. Her segment begins at 18:30. Professor Kelsey Miller '07, visiting lecturer in art, competes in the first quiz, at the very beginning of the show!

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson '99 is "keenly aware of the responsibility that secretaries who serve as their states’ chief election officers bear in reassuring voters that our democracy is secure, fair and accessible, and that election results are an accurate reflection of their will....Whether Trump is eligible to run for president again is a decision not for secretaries of state but for the courts."

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are suddenly everywhere. Why we're invested – and is that OK? Even Wellesley College psychology professor and department chair Tracy Gleason (who isn't a Swiftie but does have a doctorate in child psychology with a minor in interpersonal relationships) calls Swift "nothing short of a phenomenon."

An American who settled in Vienna, Nancy Van de Vate '52 had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field.

A world where artifacts have been sequestered into single-culture museums struck Erich Hatala Matthes, a philosophy professor at Wellesley College who has written extensively about cultural heritage, as impoverished. For one, cultures aren’t easily sliced up into discrete, bounded wholes, he said. They’re connected, and museums are well positioned to demonstrate those connections.