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Future physician Jailene Rodriguez ’20 gained hands-on lab experience in high school via Mount Holyoke’s Restoration Ecology Summer Scholars Program.

An environmental studies student at Mount Holyoke and an alum working for the World Wide Fund for Nature make a life-changing connection.

The Board of Trustees announces that Mount Holyoke College has set the goal of being carbon neutral by the College’s bicentennial, 2037.

Marbles champ Whitney Lapic ’18 came to Mount Holyoke and found mollusk fossils, international paleontology fieldwork and a passion for research.

Kate Ballantine’s research on environmental revival and ecosystems at a former cranberry bog in Plymouth investigates the effects of climate change.

As part of New Student Orientation, new students are offered a plant, a Mount Holyoke tradition since 1971. This story, first published in August 2017, tells the tale of how the custom was re-envisioned by three entrepreneurial and creative students.

More than 100 high school students spent the day at Mount Holyoke’s restoration ecology site, learning about the environment from the ground up.

Mount Holyoke alum and environmental activist Songqiao Yao ’11 realized her childhood dream of visiting Antarctica—and now works to save it.

Mount Holyoke professor teaches ecology through wetlands restoration on campus.