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“This place gives you exposure to different people, perspectives and even parts of yourself,” said Mount Holyoke College senior Sarah Bell ’25.
Senior Cynthia Obianuju Akanaga ’25 said, “Mount Holyoke changed my life. I’ve always been afraid of making the wrong choice, but being here helped me put that fear into a positive light.”
Mount Holyoke College student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.
Mount Holyoke senior Qiao Se Ong ’25 is among the 2025 cohort for Projects for Peace. Her project, based in Colombia, aims to address the impact of dam construction on local communities through creative workshops and collaborations with local artists.
Cora Fernández Anderson, associate professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, wrote an article for Ms. magazine about a landmark ruling that could transform the legal landscape of abortion laws in Latin America.
Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom ’25 has been selected as Mount Holyoke College’s first Schwarzman Scholar. The program selects future leaders to pursue a one-year, fully funded master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Nearly 1,000 handwritten letters penned by missionary and scientist David Crockett Graham will be digitally scanned, archived and preserved by a Mount Holyoke College history major and the Archives and Special Collections office.
At an awards ceremony held at the Italian Consulate in Boston, Mount Holyoke College students from an intermediate Italian course were recognized for their work exploring the connection between Italian language and literature.
Mount Holyoke College alum Earl Wren ’24 is the recipient of the AHEAD Student Recognition Award for their work amplifying student-led networks of accessibility and disability support and providing critical feedback to the Disability Services office.
Mount Holyoke College’s class of 2028 has arrived on campus — here’s what the numbers say about these blue lions.
