• 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.

  • Illustration of a stork holding an empty diaper cloth in its beak
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    As fertility rates plummet in much of the world, Wellesley experts explain why it’s happening and what might be done to address it, and alums tell their own stories about their winding paths to becoming parents—or not.