The intellectual discoveries of seniors
The annual Senior Symposium at Mount Holyoke College is dedicated to the intellectual interests and discoveries of the graduating class.
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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The annual Senior Symposium at Mount Holyoke College is dedicated to the intellectual interests and discoveries of the graduating class.
Students, organizations and alums were honored at the annual Leadership and Service Awards at Mount Holyoke College.
Mount Holyoke College student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 is an awardee of this year’s Project for Peace grants from Middlebury College. She will launch a year-round food pantry in her hometown.
Cerebro 101 is an initiative led by Mount Holyoke College faculty Marta Sabariego and Nieves Romero-Díaz that teaches dual-language elementary students about neuroscience and behavior.
Trailblazing Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy Sheftall will be the primary speaker at the Mount Holyoke College Commencement. Two extraordinary Mount Holyoke alums, Leslie Anne Miller ’73 and Maria Z. Mossaides ’73, will also be honored.
Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Psychology and Education, has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2026–27 academic year.
Noted author Curtis Chin takes a few moments before he visits Mount Holyoke College for BOOM! Community Day to discuss empathy, storytelling and his favorite line in his memoir.
MassLive has reported on the Five College Museums’ new online database, which provides access to more than 100,000 artworks held across six institutions.
The Daily Hampshire Gazette recently explored the new Climate Justice Lab initiative of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College.
Mount Holyoke College students Molly DeLuca ’26, Marley Hollen ’28 and Abigail Ding ’29 got to shadow stage managers for the touring production of the musical “Suffs,” which features alum Tami Dahbura ’84.