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Oh the places you will go… when you go to Mount Holyoke!
Donari Yahzid ’19 discusses how her experience at MHC Preview weekend helped her choose Mount Holyoke over the larger, co-ed, west coast colleges she was interested in. And how Mount Holyoke helped her travel the world and experience the unexplainable.
Mob at Capitol was an “attempted putsch”
Mount Holyoke College Professor Mara Benjamin was part of a group of Jewish scholars who called for Trump’s removal after January’s Capitol breach.
Meeting the moment
Mount Holyoke College has received $11 million in gifts to support financial aid and launched the “Meet the Moment Scholarship Challenge.”
A focus on community from a distance
Mount Holyoke’s KC Haydon flipped her classroom to make discussion and building community among her students the focus of her course.
Alum tapped for deputy secretary of defense
Mount Holyoke College alum Kathleen Hicks ’91 has been nominated as the deputy secretary of defense. She would be the first woman to serve in the role.
A chance fossil find leads to fame
The Podokesaurus holyokesis, which was discovered by late Mount Holyoke professor Mignon Talbot, is proposed as the state dinosaur of Massachusetts.
Spotlight on popular majors: psychology
Whether it’s graduate school or going straight to work, psychology gives you the skills employers look for.
Spotlight on top majors: computer science
Computer science is empowering as well as lucrative — but what you might not know is how much fun it is, besides.
Spotlight on popular majors: Biology
Learn how to conduct experiments, collect and manage data and more from accomplished faculty with wide-ranging expertise and an eagerness to teach.
Spotlight on popular majors: English
Calling all students with “a great hunger for both creative expression and deep analytic thinking” who want to study with involved and dedicated faculty.
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