Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Students — who worked in 42 countries in every imaginable field — rock PowerPoint, field questions and share insight in classrooms and lecture halls packed with family, friends, alumnae, faculty and staff.
As part of New Student Orientation, new students are offered a plant, a Mount Holyoke tradition since 1971. This story, first published in August 2017, tells the tale of how the custom was re-envisioned by three entrepreneurial and creative students.
Mount Holyoke’s newest students are welcomed to the community through Orientation: four packed days of fun, community-building and celebration.
Alheri Egor-Egbe ’17 reflects on her time at Mount Holyoke and what the stoling ceremony symbolized for her.
From solar cells and architecture to an athletic app and teaching, students spoke about their internships and research at the 2016 LEAP presentations.
Patrizia von Brandenstein was a Leading Women in the Arts speaker in 2015.
Billie Tsien, Leading Women in the Arts guest-artist in residence, Spring 2014
Acclaimed author Francine Prose is the 2012 Leading Woman in the Arts guest speaker who will discuss the unique ways in which writers use language to create characters in literature.
Meredith Monk, hailed as a "magician of the voice" and "one of America's coolest composers," was the 2011 Leading Woman in the Arts guest artist-in-residence at Mount Holyoke College on April 28 and 29, 2011.
