Pursuing two major interests without sacrifice
Here, Sophia found steadfast support as a woman within a STEM field as well as the freedom to embrace her multiple passions.
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Here, Sophia found steadfast support as a woman within a STEM field as well as the freedom to embrace her multiple passions.
Hear how this economics major settled in and talks about what’s impressed her most in her four years at Mount Holyoke.
Mount Holyoke College’s Common Read for fall of 2022 is “Braiding Sweetgrass.” “Braiding Sweetgrass” centers Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to mainstream scientific methodologies.
Mount Holyoke assistant professor Christopher Mitchell talked to Forbes about the desire to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
“I definitely feel the warmth of the Mount Holyoke community while I am on campus, but I found it to be a [real] source of strength during my time abroad.”
Data collected by Mount Holyoke students has shown a major policy flaw in a program originally meant to fight housing blight.
Internships helped Sinead O’Sullivan learn the ways in which both government policies and funding levels limit the accessibility and quality of care.
Mount Holyoke student Kylie Gellatly FP’23 has published her first collection of poetry, “The Fever Poems.”
Mount Holyoke College students presented at a College-organized Black Studies and Romanticism conference.
Mount Holyoke professor’s research finds that college admissions essays are even more strongly linked to socioeconomic status than test scores.