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By Danni Ondraskova News, News and Features, News in BriefMarch 16, 2016

News in Brief : 3/16

Wellesley College professor featured in BBC interview

Sociology professor and department chair Peggy Levitt was featured in a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio program to discuss her book Artifacts of Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display. The book focuses on the role of museums as an institution that helps people engage with other people of different backgrounds and imagine the various identities that exist in the world. In the segment, Levitt reflected on why American museums focus on the world more than the United States and how museums convey messages of nationalism to their audiences.

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Sociology professor and department chair Peggy Levitt was featured in a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio program to discuss her book Artifacts of Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display. The book focuses on the role of museums as an institution that helps people engage with other people of different backgrounds and imagine the various identities that exist in the world. In the segment, Levitt reflected on why American museums focus on the world more than the United States and how museums convey messages of nationalism to their audiences.

Wellesley economics professors shed light on stock market

Investors and ordinary people alike have been skittish about the state of the world economy in the midst of the rouble’s devaluation and China’s stock market fall. Wellesley College economics professor Dan Sichel, a former senior staffer at the Federal Reserve and former research associate at the Brookings Institution, discussed central banks’ increasing reliance on negative interest rates with CNN Money and The Boston Globe. Knapp Social Science Center director and Wellesley economics professor Courtney Coile discussed the stock market’s volatility and its implication for investors’ decisions with Bloomberg Business. Bloomberg Business also cited research performed by Coile and Wellesley economics professor Phillip Levine on how stock market and labor market gyrations affect older workers.

Alumnae reflect on Wellesley Effect in StoryCorps recordings

The StoryCorps MobileBooth came to Wellesley College last semester and heard many stories, including a conversation between Martha Teichner ’69 and Milly Cooper Glimcher ’61. The two alumnae discussed the role of Wellesley in their lives, and in preparing women to take risks and break into the public sphere. Teichner is a CBS correspondent and Glimcher is an art historian and curator.  StoryCorps MobileBooth also captured the stories of more Wellesley alumnae in New York City, and they will visit Chicago this April. Alumnae can also contribute their stories on the StoryCorps app or send their written stories to the Wellesley Campaign website.

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