Library awarded for inclusive excellence and belonging
For the second year in a row, Mount Holyoke College has received the 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.
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For the second year in a row, Mount Holyoke College has received the 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.
Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to both New England Public Media and the podcast “The Harvard Plan” about how higher education is not the enemy, as well as supporting students going forward.
Mount Holyoke College held a panel discussion “Trans Health Care Is a Human Right: On Safeguarding Gender-Affirming Care After United States v. Skrmetti.” Speakers discussed the case and its impact on transgender and gender-diverse people.
Lily E. Rood ’27 will serve as a Youth Ambassador for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for two years, raising awareness of its efforts to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ youth at home, at school, at work and beyond.
Before his Dec. 3 talk at Mount Holyoke College, award-winning author, journalist and professor Moustafa Bayoumi spoke about the most recent presidential election and why his book “How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?” is still relevant.
Artist Harmonia Rosales spoke at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum about her work, including her painting “The Harvest.”
Prentis Hemphill ’04 will be at Mount Holyoke College to discuss their book “What It Takes To Heal.” The book poses the question: ““What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center?”
The Intergroup Dialogue Center at Mount Holyoke College reached a new, major milestone by securing its first round of philanthropic investment from its most recent board chair, Karena Strella ’90.
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.
New faculty at Mount Holyoke College Chloe Pak Drummond is a botanist and evolutionary biologist. She works with students to answer integrated evolutionary questions using field-based, molecular and bioinformatic techniques.