Becky Packard's research focuses on mentoring women pursuing science & technology careers, aspirations of urban ethnic minority low-income adolescents, and understanding the complex routes toward higher education.
Patricia Ramsey is an expert in early childhood development, including social development, early attitude development, and multicultural education for young children.
Robert Shilkret's research deals with college students' development, including how they accomplish goals and overcome unconscious obstructions, and the relations between earlier parenting experiences and college adjustment.
Sandy Lawrence examines the role of whiteness and inequality in schools and society.
Fran Deutsch is currently pursuing two lines of research: how men and women around the world divide domestic labor and the educational paths of preschool teachers.
Fish, lizards and insects -- they all learn to recognize cues in their environments that warn them of predators or announce that food is nearby. Karen Hollis studies how they do it.
How do we know what the objects around us are and how to interact with them? Joe Cohen and his students use psychophysical methods to explore the phenomenology of perception.
Molly Holder '02: “I feel especially lucky to be working in a position that allows me to fully utilize both of my degrees."
KC Haydon '00: “My Mount Holyoke education gave me more than just skills and knowledge; I graduated with a sense of engaged ownership of my work.”
Jordana Harper-Ewert ’03: Becoming a school principal a few years out of college isn’t all that common. But at age 25, Jordana Harper-Ewert ’03 was named principal of Sgt. Robert R. Litwin School in Chicopee, MA.
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