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Wellesley College has been a leader in liberal arts and the education of women for more than 125 years. The College's 500-acre campus near Boston is home to 2,300 undergraduate students who hail from 50 states and more than 65 countries. Consistently ranked among the top four national liberal arts colleges, Wellesley is widely acknowledged as the preeminent women's college in the nation.

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  • Abortion and the Economics of Fertility

    Fri, Jun 4, 2004
    Economist Phillip Levine uses economic analysis to consider this question: how do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? Comparing abortion to a form of insurance, he contends that abortion provides protection from downside risk. Levine discusses ideas from his new book, *Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility*, published in 2004 by Princeton University Press. **Phillip Levine** is a professor of economics at Wellesley College and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. At Wellesley, he teaches classes in social policy, econometrics, and microeconomic theory. He has also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. His research has largely been devoted to empirical examinations of the impact of government programs and social legislation on individual and business behavior.
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  • Tom Perrotta: Craft of Writing, Foray into Cinema

    Thu, Feb 17, 2005
    Tom Perrotta reads from some of his works and discusses the craft of writing and his first forays into the world of cinema. His writing depicts cultures and subcultures with skewering accuracy and no small dose of satire, humor, and compassion, whether it be student life in the Ivy League of *Joe College* or suburban parenthood in *Little Children*.
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  • Global Health Equity and the Future of Public Health

    Mon, Apr 4, 2005
    Paul Farmer, a world-renowned infectious disease specialist who has been called a public health Robin Hood, discusses global health equity and the future of public health. Farmer is co-founder of Partners in Health, an international organization that brings the benefits of modern medical science to some of the most impoverished areas of the world. In Haiti, where he spends much of his time, Farmer implemented one of the first HIV/AIDS treatment programs in the developing world. Thanks to the efforts of a tuberculosis (TB) center in Haiti, founded by Farmer, the success rate for multidrug-resistant TB rivals that of hospitals in the United States. He expanded the treatment of multidrug-resistant TB to Peru and Russia, where he has achieved similar success.
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