[In the News]

Seeking Truth and Gender Equity The New York Times of Sunday, February 20, featured an article titled "Women Added to Finalists for Abolitionist's Statue" in which Andrea Ayvazian, MHC's dean of religious life, is quoted and pictured. The piece focuses on a dispute that has arisen surrounding a project to honor rights advocate Sojourner Truth with a bronze statue. Ayvazian is a member of the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee, a group that decided to revamp its list of those chosen as finalists for the commission after local artists expressed concern that only male artists had been selected out of a field of applicants that was half female. The committee, which launched the Truth project in 1993, recently announced a new list of ten finalists, five of whom are women.

 
Talking About Body Image MHC history professor Carole Straw was one of several people interviewed for a two-part series titled "The Millennial Body" that aired on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition February 12 and 19. Straw discussed Saint Augustine's attitude toward the body.
 
Making an Impact Students in the J-Term class, Introduction to ArcViewTM GIS (Geographic Information System), taught by Jon Caris, visiting instructor in earth and environment, developed database and map information related to the proposed luxury home development on the slopes of the Mount Holyoke Range. Using the GIS, they were able to visualize, and in some cases quantify, the development's environmental impact on the area. In one week, twelve students inventoried, analyzed, and displayed technical information relating to the development. Their work facilitated greater awareness and understanding of the development's impact and fostered enthusiasm for GIS technology. A three-dimensional map by students Andrea Nuernberger '00 and Michelle McCutchan FP was highlighted on the Isaac Ben-Ezra Show (ACTV cable TV broadcasting to Amherst and Belchertown) February 9, and both students were credited by name for their production. Mount Holyoke was also mentioned.
 
History Class Computes History professor Robert Schwartz and Computer Applications in History and the Humanities, a class he offered from 1995 to 1998 to study Frankenstein through the mechanisms of new technology and multimedia, are featured in an online story on technology and higher education on the U.S. News Web site. The story's lead paragraph reads as follows: "When the ten Mount Holyoke College students in Professor Robert Schwartz's history class studied Mary Shelley's Frankenstein last spring, they followed the lead of the novel's famous scientist. They harnessed the latest technology--in their case, searching the Internet for music, poetry, and paintings about nature from the Romantic period--to stitch together their own final creation, a multimedia CD-ROM." To read the entire story, go to http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/find/cowired.htm.

 

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