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Recent alum Charlotte Cai ’24 wrote for the Food Recovery Network about starting a chapter at Mount Holyoke College.
Mount Holyoke College student Grace Sanford ’24 won the prestigious Tidal Shift Award from the Portland Museum of Art. This award recognizes young artists who have created artwork contemplating the climate crisis.
In celebration of Earth Day, Mount Holyoke College welcomed Alexis Nikole Nelson to campus as she demonstrated to students, staff and faculty how foraging is not only good for the environment but also beneficial for one’s health.
“Mount Holyoke offered the flexibility to pursue independent projects. Mount Holyoke allowed me to take away those boxes of who I ‘should’ be and how I ‘should’ define myself.”
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.
Angelica Patterson, curator of education and outreach for the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College, was quoted saying that the size of humans’ role in fostering climate resilience in forests depends on the trees themselves.
Mount Holyoke College students interested in environmentally based careers were able to talk to alums and explore fieldwork.
Naomi Darling, faculty in sustainable architecture at Mount Holyoke College, is working with student assistants to plan a carbon-neutral future for the home of the building nicknamed “the Phoenix,” home to the nation’s first all-female fire brigade.
Angelica Patterson, the curator of education and outreach at the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College, is the principal investigator for a new National Science Foundation grant to produce virtual field experiences for underserved students.
Construction for Mount Holyoke’s new geothermal energy project led to discoveries from the College’s beginnings.
