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Students, organizations and alums were honored at the annual Leadership and Service Awards at Mount Holyoke College.
Tiko Dolidze ’26, a senior at Mount Holyoke College, and Mariam Beshidze ’27, a junior at Amherst College, have been awarded a Projects for Peace grant for their initiative that will collect oral histories from Georgian student protestors.
As a clinical geneticist, Cyndy Curry ’63 has honed the ability to recognize patterns amid complex clinical presentations. She intends to continue Mount Holyoke’s pattern of preparing students for a complex world through a gift from her IRA to establish a charitable gift annuity — an act that both benefits the College and provides her with steady payments.
Mount Holyoke College student Gabriella Aviles ’27 attended the most recent Careers in Public Service event with the Weissman Center for Leadership and discovered bold new pathways for postgraduate careers.
Mount Holyoke College student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 is an awardee of this year’s Project for Peace grants from Middlebury College. She will launch a year-round food pantry in her hometown.
Cerebro 101 is an initiative led by Mount Holyoke College faculty Marta Sabariego and Nieves Romero-Díaz that teaches dual-language elementary students about neuroscience and behavior.
Trailblazing Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy Sheftall will be the primary speaker at the Mount Holyoke College Commencement. Two extraordinary Mount Holyoke alums, Leslie Anne Miller ’73 and Maria Z. Mossaides ’73, will also be honored.
Mount Holyoke College student Caroline Grace ’27 attended the fourth annual Lyon’s Pride Conference, an event that had her both connecting with the community and questioning the support for queer people of color.
Mount Holyoke College senior Emma Adler Quirk ’26 attended the 2026 Lyon’s Pride Conference that explored LGBTQ+ life on and off campus.
Mount Holyoke College senior Gabrielle Saint-Fleur ’26 was thinking narrowly about life post-graduation. Thanks to the Careers in Public Service trip, she now knows she has the world at her fingertips.
