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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Mount Holyoke alum Dr. Megan Young ’99 is a home-based primary care doctor who is bringing the COVID-19 vaccine to homebound elders.
Mount Holyoke senior Sara Sarmiento channeled her service experience and love of politics in a virtual internship with Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Alum Chloe Zhao won best director for best picture “Nomadland” and Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay that earned Andra Day the best actor award.
Catharine “Cat” Scheibner ’73 found her two lifelong loves at Mount Holyoke: politics and athletics. “I really believe in women’s education. There’s a huge difference when you’re in a coed setting.”
Praust, who won a Fulbright Study grant during her senior year, discusses the conversations being had in academic circles about a researcher’s ethical responsibility.
Susana M. Morris is the author of “Close Kin and Distant Relatives” and will speak at Mount Holyoke on February 10 on “Black Feminism is the Future.”
Mount Holyoke College alum Sadaffe Abid ’95, co-founder of the women’s leadership organization CIRCLE, had her trailblazing instincts nurtured on campus.
“Women’s education matters,” said Dr. Susan Haas ’71. “I would never have grown the way I did at a coed school. It was a critical formative experience.”
Reflections on Studying Abroad in South Korea, by Clare Ysabella Heywood ’21 a Mount Holyoke College East Asian Studies Major.
“Mount Holyoke connected me to a world that gave me access to the impossible,” said 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.”
