Superhero thesis wins top honors.
A senior thesis analyzing social themes in Batman comics earns a graduate summa cum laude, and status as a rising star in scholarly thought.
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A senior thesis analyzing social themes in Batman comics earns a graduate summa cum laude, and status as a rising star in scholarly thought.
The Hollings award will help Erin Jones ’17 develop her deep love of oceanography by providing academic funding, contacts, and a paid research internship.
Maimuna Ahmad ’09, CEO of Teach for Bangladesh, tells MHC students how the organization she started is transforming the lives of children and their teachers.
An Atlantic article argues that witnessing a major industrial tragedy cemented 1902 alumna Frances Perkins's resolve to spend her life helping the nation's workers.
Joan Jonas ’58—who helped invent edgy contemporary art forms such as performance, video, and installation art—is representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale.
Clara Kann ’12 demystifies the journey of wine from grape to bottle, and traces her own career back to the science class she didn’t want to take.
All Mount Holyoke College students are guaranteed one paid internship. This biology major landed lab work each semester, and paid research jobs every summer.
Coiley connects MHC students fluent in Spanish with Holyoke public schools, who need their translation and interpretation services to reach parents and kids.
Undeterred as a woman in the heavily male fields of physics and engineering, Shehzeen Hussain ’14 wants to meld the two to solve community energy problems.
Chloe Zhao ’05 brings a stirring depiction of Native American life to the big screen at the Sundance Film Festival in Songs My Brothers Taught Me.