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Mount Holyoke College students gathered to be honored by the community for their leadership and service to others.

Mount Holyoke College senior Rachel Katzenberg ’25 said, “At Mount Holyoke, I 100% found a good community … a large community that wants to help me and see me succeed.”

Mount Holyoke College senior Hailee Pitschke ’25 said, “I’m really grateful that Mount Holyoke offered opportunities to explore niche topics in fields I am interested in. It helped nail down key academic interests.”

Mount Holyoke College senior Yunwei Ni ’25 said, “Mount Holyoke gave me the sense that everyone has the opportunity to go anywhere they want to go.”

“This place gives you exposure to different people, perspectives and even parts of yourself,” said Mount Holyoke College senior Sarah Bell ’25.

Mount Holyoke College senior Sander Ivanenko ’25 said, “If it weren’t for Mount Holyoke and the environment and professors and students, I never would have gone into science.”

Mount Holyoke College senior Aby Soumare ’25 said, “I’ve found that no matter what, everyone working on this campus wants you to succeed.”

Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom ’25 has been selected as Mount Holyoke College’s first Schwarzman Scholar. The program selects future leaders to pursue a one-year, fully funded master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Two Mount Holyoke College students took home awards from the 2024 New England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Fall Conference for their research on water scarcity in the Southwest and on the preservation of indigenous water systems in Nepal.

Siggy Ehrlich ’26 recently worked on and attended a Mount Holyoke College symposium celebrating composer Maria Theresia von Paradis.