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Mount Holyoke College employees were celebrated during the annual “Cheers for Peers” staff award event.
Mount Holyoke College Associate Professor Patricia Brennan’s research has revealed the mating method of alpacas to be unlike any other known mammal. During copulation, male alpacas have been found to inseminate females directly into the uterus.
Seattle is marking the one-year anniversary of its Race and Social Justice Initiative ordinance. Mount Holyoke Associate Professor Serin D. Houston writes that other cities can learn from the ordinance in an article for The Conversation.
Six Mount Holyoke College faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship. The awards will fund travel to further advance their studies, leading to increased opportunities for students.
David Karp, director of the Center for Restorative Justice in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, was welcomed to Mount Holyoke College as the keynote speaker for the eighth annual BOOM! Learning Symposium.
Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Mary E. Woolley professor of psychology and education, has been recognized as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Mount Holyoke professor Marta Sabariego and a group of neuroscience majors led a bilingual workshop for first graders at Edward Nelson White School in Holyoke to understand the intricacies of the brain and inspire them to pursue careers in science.
Mount Holyoke College’s Department of Jewish Studies welcomed Riv-Ellen Prell, professor emerita, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, to speak about Christian nationalism, white power and American antisemitism.
Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College, has been named as part of the class of 2024 Guggenheim Fellows. Benjamin is one of 188 distinguished and diverse fellows of culture creators named.
Mount Holyoke College President and Professor of Politics Danielle Holley welcomed students, faculty, staff and alums to participate in a virtual session of her 2024 spring course on the Supreme Court as part of the BOOM! Learning Symposium.
