Mount Holyoke student named a “major league hacker”
Mount Holyoke College student Cynthia Akanaga ’25 has been named to Major League Hacking’s Top 50 List for 2023.
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Mount Holyoke College student Cynthia Akanaga ’25 has been named to Major League Hacking’s Top 50 List for 2023.
Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy, was part of a team that solved a nearly century-old mystery of “Blood Falls” in Antarctica.
Mount Holyoke College hosted the annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, which brings together faculty and students from the greater Hudson Valley region for a day of talks on and about the mathematical sciences.
Mount Holyoke’s career-focused curriculum program went on the road to Boston this past spring, allowing students to connect with alums in both the biotech and public service sectors.
Two Mount Holyoke College students will spend the next year conducting advanced research as part of the Beckman Scholars Program. They will each conduct 15-month, one-on-one mentored research projects with College faculty.
Game On!, a free two-week mathematical enrichment program for high school students, is now open for registration. The program runs July 3–14, 2023, and will be held on the Mount Holyoke College campus.
“I’ve met amazing people that I still look to for friendship, and I’ve also met younger underclassmen whom I feel would definitely do an amazing job of taking over and continuing the legacy.”
“Through the classes I’ve taken, I have a much better sense of what I’m interested in and what I want to do with the future. The professors ... are really there to make sure that you understand all of this material.”
“It was both the school’s physical environment and beautiful campus and the community environment [that attracted me to Mount Holyoke].”
“Immediately, I realized [Kenneth Colodner’s] lab researched exactly what I was interested in, and it was one of these weird meant-to-be moments.”