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  • A student writes on a white board. Some of the words include Pandora’s Box, capability of critical thinking, environmental concerns.

    Shaping AI before it shapes us

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    Career Education offers students an opportunity to think deeply about issues related to artificial intelligence

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    The Concord Museum has named Amanda Lahikainen ’02 as its new director

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    Amanda Lahikainen ’02 has been named the new director of the Concord Museum. She was most recently executive director of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, in Maine.

  • Portrait of poet and author Dan Chiasson standing with his arms crossed in his office at Wellesley College, surrounded by Bernie Sanders memorabilia.

    Vermont’s independent newspaper Seven Days reviews Dan Chiasson’s “Bernie for Burlington”

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    Vermont's independent newspaper calls English professor Dan Chiasson’s new book, “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician,” “the definitive origin story of a unique political career.”

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    In “Bernie for Burlington,” Vermont native Dan Chiasson charts Bernie Sanders’ political rise

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    Vermont’s independent newspaper calls Dan Chiasson’s unauthorized biography “Bernie for Burlington” part origin story, part author’s memoir about the mayor who transformed his hometown.

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    Dan Chiasson’s new book “Bernie for Burlington” was named a “book of note” by New England Literary News

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    “Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician” by English professor Dan Chiasson was listed as a “book of note” by New England Literary News.

  • Wellesley College Awards Tenure to Five Professors

    Wellesley College awards tenure to five professors

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  • Bernie Sanders raises his arms in victory after defeating Republican Peter Smith in the race for Vermont’s lone seat in the US House of Representatives, on November 6, 1990

    English professor Dan Chiasson writes for the Globe Magazine about Bernie Sanders

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    English professor Dan Chiasson writes the Globe Magazine cover story about Bernie Sanders: “As a teen growing up in Burlington, Vt., I witnessed one of the unlikeliest rises in politics.”

  • A group photo of Wellesley students holding up emoji-style photo props and smiling at the camera.

    “The heart” of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab

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    Wellesley students work with middle school girls and nonbinary youth on digital wellbeing

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    Wellesley president Paula Johnson defended the role of liberal arts colleges in the Globe

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    Many alum business leaders majored in economics, but Paula Johnson says just as many majored in political science, art history, Africana studies, East Asian languages, or women’s and gender studies.