• Photo of Karen Petrou ’75, seated on her couch next to her guide dog

    The New York Times wrote an obituary for fiscal policy analyst Karen Dolmatch Petrou ’75

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    Karen Dolmatch Petrou ’75 started her own company after a bank executive told her he “did not feel good about making a young woman a senior vice president,” she once told Wellesley’s alumnae magazine.

  • Black and white image of a dusty road by Kathya Landeros

    WellesleyWeston Magazine features the Davis Museum’s exhibit “In Focus: Wellesley College Faculty Artists”

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    WellesleyWeston Magazine says the Davis Museum’s exhibit of pieces by faculty artists “offers thought-provoking work in a variety of artistic media, giving museum-goers a layered experience.”

  • Math professor Ismar Volić talks to WellesleyWeston Magazine about solutions for democracy

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    Ismar Volić, professor of mathematics, speaks with WellesleyWeston Magazine about spearheading a movement to reform democracy through math.

  • A group of college graduates in black caps and gowns, silhouetted by the sun

    In the Boston Globe, economist Phillip Levine weighs in on the heated debate over three-year college degrees

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    Three-year bachelor’s degrees and early college programs almost concede that we might never have a sufficiently funded higher education system, said Phillip Levine, professor of economics.

  • Black and white logo of the The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life featuring the optical illusion that can either look like two faces or a vase

    Philosophy professor Erich Hatala Matthes asks what we should save for posterity

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    On the Philosophy in Public Life podcast, Erich Hatala Matthes, philosophy professor, explores which of our possessions and commitments deserve our attention and how we should protect them.

  • Two students walk toward the open doors of a bus.
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    Wellesley, MIT, Babson, Olin, and Brandeis students enjoy cross-registration benefits

  • A student sits on the floor of a library, reading the book Death, Diversion and Departure. She leans against shelf stacks. On the floor next to her are two other faculty books.
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    Thirteen titles perfect for a snow day!

  • An old wooden dresser with a false drawer that leads to a secret passageway

    Smithsonian magazine mentions Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson’s take on an Underground Railroad hiding spot

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    In a story about a recently discovered secret passageway likely from the Underground Railroad, Smithsonian refers to a New York Times interview with Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson.

  • Lamiya Mowla '13, assistant professor of astronomy, stands by a telescope in the Whitin Observatory.
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    “Because I grew up in Dhaka, in Bangladesh, right in the middle of the smoggy, light-polluted city, I do not remember seeing any star,” says Lamiya Mowla ’13, assistant professor of astronomy. That changed when she arrived at Wellesley.