Celebrating the faculty
Mount Holyoke College held its annual Faculty Awards Ceremony and celebrated five faculty members for their teaching, research and service.
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Mount Holyoke College held its annual Faculty Awards Ceremony and celebrated five faculty members for their teaching, research and service.
A study by Joanna Wuest, assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, argues that recent state bans on gender-affirming care for minors identifying as transgender are based on faulty or distorted evidence.
Barbara Smith ’69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
Mount Holyoke College welcomed Freddy Mutanguha, CEO of Aegis Trust and director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial, to discuss the Rwandan genocide, the lessons learned and how we can prevent genocide from ever happening again.
Eva Paus, Professor of Economics on the Ford Foundation, is awarded the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Award for Service.
Morena Svaldi, Senior Lecturer in Italian, is awarded the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Award for Teaching.
Patricia Banks, Professor of Sociology, is awarded the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship.
Patty Rodriguez Brennan, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, is awarded the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship.
Preston H. Smith II, Class of 1926 Professor of Politics, is awarded the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Award for Teaching.
Mount Holyoke College student Ladin Akcacioglu ’24 shares a first-person experience from a visit to her home country of Turkey last year, witnessing the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, with Folklife Magazine.