Sifting through culinary history
Culinary historian and Mount Holyoke alum Barbara Ketchum Wheaton ’53 first dreamed of a database of historical cookbooks more than 50 years ago.
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Culinary historian and Mount Holyoke alum Barbara Ketchum Wheaton ’53 first dreamed of a database of historical cookbooks more than 50 years ago.
At this contentious moment, how can K-12 educators engage students in constructive, respectful dialogue? Mount Holyoke presents a three-part workshop.
Three-dimensional depictions that allow a viewer to virtually navigate the space and envision what it may have felt like to attend Mount Holyoke in the 19th century.
Liz Lierman has been named interim executive director of the Alumnae Association.
Mount Holyoke taught me “Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” says Mary Ann Villarreal ’94, the first in her family to attend college. “I give back because I felt like Mount Holyoke was my home and I want other people to find their home too.”
Paust will use her Fulbright fellowship to study how the novel coronavirus has impacted Indigenous populations in Canada.
Donari Yahzid ’19 was awarded a Fulbright grant to study the effects of development on traditional culture in Samoa.
Mount Holyoke College helped prepare them to lead, say congresswoman Nita Lowey ’59 and Deborah Frank Feinen ’89, mayor of Champaign, Illinois.
At the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Mount Holyoke alumna Eleanor Rogan ‘63 chairs a department doing urgent COVID-19 research.
“Mount Holyoke has pushed me to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I’ve gained understanding and appreciation for people who see things differently.”