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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.”

https://www.snexplores.org/article/5-things-talking-with-chatbot
5 things to remember when talking to a chatbot
When using ChatGPT or other chatbots, remember your voice matters and watch out for flattery and hallucinations. And for important advice, ask real people.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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On November 12, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of The 1619 Project, spoke with associate professor of history Brenna Greer about history and journalism.

📝 Chaewon Han ’29
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/who-tells-our-stories
Who tells our stories?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about history and journalism as part of the Jordan Lecture Series
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November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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It’s official! Wellesley’s newly constructed Vivian A. Kao ’04 Health and Counseling Center has officially earned LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification! 🌱
Vivian A. Kao ’04 Health and Counseling Center
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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According to Wellesley professor Dan Chiasson, Zohran Mamdani’s socialism is not, as some critics suggest, a stale collection of old creeds but a dynamic system with small businesses at its core.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/06/have-you-met-z-zohran-mamdani/
‘Have You Met Z?' | Dan Chiasson
It was almost weird to walk around New York City and not run into him. “Z was in just yesterday,” the barista at Little Flower in Astoria told me,
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November 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A privilege to listen to @nhannahjones.bsky.social at @wellesley.edu. I feel seen and out (black) frustration clearly and fluently explained. Still, a reminder that the civil rights movement benefited everyone not just black folks. It was a democratizing movement. Thank you to the Newhouse Center.
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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A team of researchers at MIT, including Wellesley’s own Loey Bull ’23, created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions, where they provide electrical stimulation.

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New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery
Microscopic bioelectronic devices could one day travel through the body’s circulatory system and autonomously self-implant in a target region of the brain. These “circulatronics” can be wirelessly pow...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This year, Wellesley’s annual Friends and Family Weekend included a celebration of the College’s 150th anniversary. Alumnae were invited to join parents, siblings, and friends for two days of special events.

📸 Joel Haskell
A mom and her daughter at Wellesley's family weekend Sophomores plant their class tree at Friends and Family Weekend A mom and her daughter at Wellesley's family weekend a panel with the 2025 Alumnae Achievement Award recipients
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“Art gives you a license to dream. It’s how we imagine a world that doesn’t yet exist.”

This year’s Wilson Lecture featured Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation and Emily Wei Rales ’98.

📝 Ellie Walsh ’29

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Why democracies need the arts
This year’s Wilson Lecture featured the president of the Ford Foundation and the alumna who co-founded the contemporary art museum Glenstone
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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Listening to @repemilyrandall.bsky.social talk about the importance of a health care system like the one that supported her baby sister for 19 years. ❤️ so much for @wellesley.edu students to learn about.

Heartbreaking to think that keeping people alive is expensive.
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Some states have implemented policies that prohibit or limit paper mail within prisons. In this op-ed, Tamanika Ferguson (@wellesley.edu) explains why protecting physical mail is essential for dignity, organizing, and collective learning

Read in @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/new...
New Prison Mail Policies Threaten Newsletters by and for Incarcerated People
States are adopting surveillance-oriented “paperless” policies that deny incarcerated people access to physical letters.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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ICYMI Yesterday's broadcast with Helena de Bres from @wellesley.edu, author of "Philosophy in the First Person" (forthcoming), is now available for download: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

#PhilSky #narrative #meaning
This Week: Narrative and the Meaning of Life
Podcast Episode · Philosophy Talk: Select Episodes · 11/09/2025 · 51m
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November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Seattle Storm’s next coach will be New York Liberty assistant coach Sonia Raman. She spent six seasons as the lead assistant basketball coach at Wellesley. Congrats, Sonia! 🏀

www.cbssports.com/wnba/news/seattle-storm-expected-to-hire-liberty-assistant-sonia-raman-as-next-coach-per-report/
Seattle Storm expected to hire Liberty assistant Sonia Raman as next coach, per report
Raman has extensive coaching experience both at the collegiate and professional level
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November 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Nearly 400 Wellesley students, alums, faculty, and staff attended “We the People: Finding Common Purpose,” a summit hosted by the Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy on November 1. https://www.wellesley.edu/news/finding-common-purpose-to-inspire-a-better-future
Finding common purpose to inspire a better future
Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy’s second annual summit focuses on building civic strength
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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Ilinca Drondoe ’26 created a 3-part speaker series, “Climate Breakdown and the War System.” She hopes the series will “bring attention to the often-overlooked connections between militarism and the climate crisis.”
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One Wellesley student’s transformative approach to climate action
Ilinca Drondoe ’26 curated the “Climate Breakdown and the War System” speaker series
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November 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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New research demonstrates that Wellesley College graduates have an outsized impact as leaders at work and excel in fields where women are traditionally underrepresented.

https://www.wellesley.edu/news/new-research-demonstrates-outsized-impact-of-a-wellesley-education
New research demonstrates outsized impact of a Wellesley education
Wellesley grads lead in fields where women are underrepresented
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October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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When the Durants founded Wellesley College, most colleges and universities were opting to flatten the landscapes of their campuses. In contrast, Wellesley was intentionally situated atop hills, to take advantage of the breezes and beautiful views.
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/not-merely-beautiful
“Not merely beautiful”
150 years of Wellesley's landscape
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October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Informed by her years of neuroscience research as an undergraduate and her passion for music, Kimaya Lecamwasam ’21 focused her graduate research at the MIT Media Lab on harnessing the emotional potency of music into scalable, non-pharmacological mental health tools.

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Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations
Musician and computational neuroscientist Kimaya Lecamwasam, a doctoral student in the MIT Media Lab program in Media Arts and Sciences, uses neuroscience, AI, and music to explore the impact of music...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Is anybody here?

Super excited about the week of chocolate events @wellesley.edu.

I am delighted and humbled that we get to learn from the extraordinary Jeanne Donkoh of Bioko Treats who is on campus all the way from Accra, Ghana. Her chocolates are a work of art!

We got a few customized bars 😊
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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What can you do with a Medieval and Renaissance Studies degree? “Anything you want.”

📝 Chaewon Han ’29

https://www.wellesley.edu/news/celebrating-50-years-of-the-medieval-and-renaissance-studies-program
Celebrating 50 years of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Med/Ren alums return to campus to talk about the versatility of the degree
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October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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My @wellesley.edu students and I are tracking more than 600 clean energy manufacturing projects in North America at The Big Green Machine.

Check out our interactive dashboard and let us know what we are missing, what we’ve got wrong, and what needs updating. 🔌💡
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Panel discussion on the role of quantitative research in political reform featuring Ariel Procaccia of Harvard University, Alma Steingart of Columbia University, and Rob Richie of Expand Democracy. Moderated by me, with remarks by @wellesley.edu president Paula Johnson.

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The Democracy Code panel discussion
YouTube video by The Institute for Mathematics and Democracy
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October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Short Internship Projects, or SHIPs, are paid 60-80 hour virtual summer internship projects designed exclusively for first-year students.

📝 Colleen Heaslip ’28

https://www.wellesley.edu/news/early-exploration
Early exploration
This summer, members of the class of 2028 engaged in a variety of internships through the College’s Short Internship Projects (SHIPs) program
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October 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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"We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance" by @kcarterjackson.bsky.social was recently awarded the Nonfiction Award at the the 25th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards! Watch her discussion on the roots of revolution to the need for joy.

www.wcvb.com/article/city...
CityLine: Challenging the methods and meanings of Black resistance
Massachusetts Book Award winner for non-fiction Kellie Carter Jackson
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October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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ICYMI... Thank you for this wonderful interview #Cityline @wellesley.edu

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CityLine: Challenging the methods and meanings of Black resistance
Massachusetts Book Award winner for non-fiction Kellie Carter Jackson
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October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The Wellesley Repertory Festival marked the culmination of the first year of the Wellesley Repertory Theatre’s new grant program, launched in 2024 to support original & evolving performing arts projects by Wellesley alums.
https://www.wellesley.edu/news/supporting-alum-voices-and-visions-in-theatre
Supporting alums’ voices and visions in theater
Grant recipients returned to campus for the inaugural Wellesley Repertory Festival
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October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM