The intellectual discoveries of seniors
The annual Senior Symposium at Mount Holyoke College is dedicated to the intellectual interests and discoveries of the graduating class.
Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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The annual Senior Symposium at Mount Holyoke College is dedicated to the intellectual interests and discoveries of the graduating class.
Mount Holyoke College students Eva Hanson ’26 and Aleena Jafar-DeCesare ’27 had the opportunity to work with faculty Anne Taylor on sociology research, enabling them to visit Yale University.
Students, organizations and alums were honored at the annual Leadership and Service Awards at Mount Holyoke College.
Niyonkinzo Ivona ’27, a junior at Mount Holyoke College, took part in an independent study with performance artist Romina De Novellis.
Tiko Dolidze ’26, a senior at Mount Holyoke College, and Mariam Beshidze ’27, a junior at Amherst College, have been awarded a Projects for Peace grant for their initiative that will collect oral histories from Georgian student protestors.
Cerebro 101 is an initiative led by Mount Holyoke College faculty Marta Sabariego and Nieves Romero-Díaz that teaches dual-language elementary students about neuroscience and behavior.
Trailblazing Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy Sheftall will be the primary speaker at the Mount Holyoke College Commencement. Two extraordinary Mount Holyoke alums, Leslie Anne Miller ’73 and Maria Z. Mossaides ’73, will also be honored.
Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Psychology and Education, has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2026–27 academic year.
Mount Holyoke College senior Myra Arif Zia ’26 took part in the Semester in D.C. program and learned key things about her career, her future plans and America at this moment in history.
Mount Holyoke College senior Gabrielle Saint-Fleur ’26 was thinking narrowly about life post-graduation. Thanks to the Careers in Public Service trip, she now knows she has the world at her fingertips.