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Deepika Kumawat ’24 has been finding opportunities to lead and build community, in and out of the classroom. A physics major with a Nexus in education policy and practice, Deepika is a teaching assistant for statistics and a Peer-Led Undergraduate Mentoring System (PLUMS) mentor for physics. She also serves on the 2024 class board, the Association of Women in Mathematics and Mount Holyoke Mock Trial, and will be the president of the First Generation and Low Income Partnership during the 2022–2023 academic year. Deepika’s best takeaway from her research experience is “whenever you go into a new field, you won’t know everything about it, and being open about what you know and don’t know is the best way to approach things.”

“Mount Holyoke changed me. It taught me how to think tangibly with critical-thinking skills. It taught me to challenge my own assumptions every single day.”

Joining Alexi Arango's research team as a first-year student built confidence in the classroom and the laboratory.

Professor Arango discusses his innovative research into solar power technology. He describes his experiments with cheaper, more flexible materials for solar power generation, an approach that could dramatically reduce the cost of solar energy.

Solar cell research at MHC led me to the electrical engineering Ph.D. program at Tufts University.

Achaetey worked on research as a part of Professor Alexi Arango's lab. She helps manufacture solar cells. She started working in the lab in summer 2015, and within the few months from the beginning of summer to fall, she has already designed a piece of equipment and wrote a standard working procedure for the Arango lab!

“At Mount Holyoke, I learned that wherever I am, if I have passion for what I’m doing, I have the power to foster the things I care about most.”

A letter summarizing the Board Meeting that took place February 23–25, 2017. The meeting included setting the fees for 2017–2018.

From solar cells and architecture to an athletic app and teaching, students spoke about their internships and research at the 2016 LEAP presentations.

Mount Holyoke College students and alums made a strong showing in this year’s National Science Foundation fellowships and Goldwater scholarships.