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Mount Holyoke College celebrated the class of 2026 at its one hundred eighty-ninth Commencement and marked the occasion with remarks from trailblazing alums and speaker Beverly Guy Sheftall.

Graduating senior Fatima Shah ’26 believes that what made her education so extraordinary at Mount Holyoke College is that the word “impossible” never got used.

The Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab at Mount Holyoke College held its annual Spring Showcase, featuring a wide array of projects from a broad range of classes.

Mount Holyoke College senior Cora Elena Harte ’26 was student teaching in Amherst, Massachusetts, this semester as part of her teaching licensure. She attended two conferences on reading and literacy to help both her current and future students.

Celine Falcón-Geist ’25 is a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Senegal and credits her time in Mount Holyoke College’s teaching licensure program for her current success.

Hanh M. Pham ’26, a senior at Mount Holyoke College, reports on nineteenth-century mathematical models now on display on campus.

Mount Holyoke College junior Sophie Kahn ’27 and her team, the Data Minions, won this year’s ASA Five College DataFest. How did they do it? By not writing a line of code until the second night, she writes.

Mount Holyoke College has selected “A Map Is Only One Story” for its Common Read for the 2026–27 academic year. Through the power of personal narratives, the anthology offers a new definition of home in the twenty-first century.

Six Mount Holyoke College students have been selected by the DAAD RISE program to study science at German research institutions or universities during the summer.

The annual Senior Symposium at Mount Holyoke College is dedicated to the intellectual interests and discoveries of the graduating class.