Celebrating the “grace and grit” of Nita M. Lowey ’59
Mount Holyoke College celebrated the life and legacy of alum Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey ’59, the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
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Mount Holyoke College celebrated the life and legacy of alum Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey ’59, the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Lindsay Adkins, AVP for Mount Holyoke College’s Marketing and Communications team, reflects on the power of language and dissent after a public talk between President Danielle R. Holley and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The biography of Mount Holyoke College alum Ella Grasso ’40 was written by Linda Melconian ’70 with research assistance from recent alum Belinda Mazzaferro ’25.
Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley has joined Governor Healey’s DRIVE Acceleration Team to grow Massachusetts’ world-renowned research and innovation economy.
Rising Mount Holyoke College senior Naoise Grybko is spending their summer researching policies on homelessness. They hope to produce a document that explains these policies in an accessible way that more people can understand.
Mount Holyoke College students gathered to be honored by the community for their leadership and service to others.
Senior Tehani Chandrasena Perera ’25 was selected to attend the eleventh annual Youth Leadership Summit of Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Washington, D.C.
Mount Holyoke College student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.
Mount Holyoke College has announced that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey will be the primary speaker at its one hundred eighty-eighth Commencement. Two Mount Holyoke alums, Bess Weatherman ’82 and Tara Roberts ’91, will also be honored at the event.
Influential and trailblazing Congresswoman Nita Lowey ’59 has passed away at the age of 87.