New & Notable

Web watch--The "hit parade" on MHC's World Wide Web site keeps growing. Last month, more than 250,000 pages were accessed. If use of the Web pages continues at this rate during April, by the end of the month more than one million pages will have been viewed since the Online Information System debuted in December 1995. Check it out at http://www.mtholyoke.edu.

Art history online--Kathryn Conners '97 has created a Web site of art history resources. Aptly titled the PartheNet, the site organizes links to art history sites by categories such as ancient Egypt, impressionism, and museums. An art history major, Conners attended a tutorial sponsored by the Computer Science Club on HTML, the language used to create Web pages, and taught herself from there. Launched in mid-February, PartheNet has already been visited more than 660 times. Check it out at http://home.mtholyoke.edu/~klconner/parthenet.html.

Meetings of the mind--Karen Hollis, professor of psychology and education and acting chair of neuroscience and behavior, is having a busy month. She delivered a keynote address, "The Power of Prediction: Biological Function of Pavlovian Conditioning," at the combined meetings of the forty-second annual convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association and the Southwestern Comparative Psychology Association on April 5 in Houston, TX. In late April, she will participate in a panel meeting of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, DC, to review grant proposals in physiology and behavior. The peer review panel will recommend recipients from more than eighty proposals, of NSF grants of up to $400,000.

Basketball court beautiful--Kendall Hall gymnasium/basketball court is sporting a new paint job and is set to receive a full court press of improvements. These include a new MHC banner and a New England Women's Eight Conference banner along with flags from the eight member institutions of our sports conference. The target date for improvements is Inauguration weekend. Next year, Mount Holyoke will host the New England Women's Eight Basketball Championships, to be televised on New England Sports Network (NESN).

Also in the works: Coca-Cola may be sponsoring two new scoreboards; a display of antique sports garb and archival photos from the College's sports history (MHC has the oldest collection of women's sports uniforms in the country); individual sports Web pages; new individual sports logos; and media and recruiting brochures.

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