Building momentum: A BOOM! fellow's story of transformation
Mount Holyoke College student Maxine Ahenkora ’27 reflects on organizing this year’s BOOM! Learning Symposium.
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Mount Holyoke College student Maxine Ahenkora ’27 reflects on organizing this year’s BOOM! Learning Symposium.
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.
Mount Holyoke College alum Connie Converse ’46 was a trailblazing composer and singer-songwriter. MHC is hosting an event that celebrates her life and legacy.
Charlie Watts ’25 is Mount Holyoke College’s poet-contestant for this year’s Glascock Poetry Competition and writes about what it’s like to compete with support from a community of other writers and poets.
Actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director John Cameron Mitchell will be at Mount Holyoke College on Monday, March 10, 2025, for a screening and discussion of his 2001 film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Yoon, a renowned architect, will speak at Mount Holyoke as part of the Distinguished Artist series on campus.
Mount Holyoke College presents the East Coast premiere of the opera “Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker),” the first opera composed by a Chickasaw in their native language.
The Career Development Center at Mount Holyoke College held a three-day immersive Sophomore Institute to prepare students who are starting their journeys in the professional world.
Mount Holyoke College held a panel discussion “Trans Health Care Is a Human Right: On Safeguarding Gender-Affirming Care After United States v. Skrmetti.” Speakers discussed the case and its impact on transgender and gender-diverse people.
Siggy Ehrlich ’26 recently worked on and attended a Mount Holyoke College symposium celebrating composer Maria Theresia von Paradis.