Perkins admitted to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Frances Perkins, Mount Holyoke College class of 1902, has been posthumously elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences under its Legacy Recognition Program.
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Frances Perkins, Mount Holyoke College class of 1902, has been posthumously elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences under its Legacy Recognition Program.
President Danielle R. Holley shared some insights with MassLive on her experience as Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent president who is a woman of color amid the growing list of presidents stepping down from roles at academic institutions.
Mount Holyoke College’s newest faculty are redefining what’s possible in their fields as they join their colleagues in preparing students to lead boldly in an ever-changing world.
Alex Moskowitz, new faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, teaches early and nineteenth-century American and African American literature.
New faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Anisha Chadha, is a medical anthropologist who uses the tools and practices, as well as the methods, of sociocultural anthropology to study topics of health, medicine and illness.
New faculty at Mount Holyoke College Chloe Pak Drummond is a botanist and evolutionary biologist. She works with students to answer integrated evolutionary questions using field-based, molecular and bioinformatic techniques.
Mount Holyoke College’s newest mathematics professor, Jennifer Paulhus, is driven to showcase mathematics in a way that can make students enjoy the subject, even if they have never liked it.
New faculty member at Mount Holyoke College Lisa Haber-Thomson is an architectural historian with a background in design. With an interdisciplinary approach, she explores the intersecting relationships between law, territory and architecture.
New faculty at Mount Holyoke College Mustapha Braimah has more than two decades of international experience and artistic accomplishment as an artist-scholar from Ghana.
Studying how far we can go to understand the fundamental structure of the universe is just one of the ways Mount Holyoke College Assistant Professor of Physics Supraja Balasubramanian aims to expand the boundaries of our knowledge.