• Seven students stand on the second floor of the science center and a banner for the 25th anniversary of Tanner hangs on the railing in front of them.
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    Annual conference offers students opportunity to discuss experiences outside the classroom

  • Teenage boy texting on a blue phone with text graphics surrounding the phone

    2025.11.13 Linda Charmaraman on why kids rather talk to Chatbots Science News Explores

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    Why would 15% of kids rather talk to a chatbot than a person? Bots don’t judge, says Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing research lab: “They’re never mad at them or moody.”

  • Two incarcerated women wearing face masks read magazines

    2025.11.04 Tamanika Ferguson incarcerated people’s access to physical mail is vital Truthout

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    Tamanika Ferguson, visiting research scholar in women’s and gender studies, says protecting incarcerated people’s access to physical mail/inside-led print publishing is a feminist public safety issue.

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones (left) in conversation with Brenna Greer, associate professor of history. They sit on a stage in Jewett Auditorium.
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    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about history and journalism as part of the Jordan Lecture Series

  • Galen Stone Tower behind trees with orange and yellow leaves
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  • A group of people including two staff members and six students pose for a photo
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    First-generation students find camaraderie at Wellesley

  • Zohran Mamdani smiling & holding a birthday cake for himself surrounded by children and adults

    2025.11.06 Dan Chiasson thoughts on mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani New York Review of Books

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    “It was almost weird to walk around New York City and not run into him,” writes Dan Chiasson, Lorraine C. Wang Professor of English, of New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

  • Journalist Arielle Mitropoulos listens to U.S. Rep. Emily Randall on stage.
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    Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy’s second annual summit focuses on building civic strength

  • Emily Wei Rales ’98 and Darren Walker sit on a stage and talk to each other.
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    This year’s Wilson Lecture featured the president of the Ford Foundation and the alumna who co-founded the contemporary art museum Glenstone