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The author of “Dear Miss Perkins” had coffee at Frances Perk and discussed the book’s start as a suggestion from Perkins’ biographer and the narrative’s first iteration as Graham’s Mount Holyoke senior thesis.

Mount Holyoke College has been designated a research college by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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.

Nearly 1,000 handwritten letters penned by missionary and scientist David Crockett Graham will be digitally scanned, archived and preserved by a Mount Holyoke College history major and the Archives and Special Collections office.

At an awards ceremony held at the Italian Consulate in Boston, Mount Holyoke College students from an intermediate Italian course were recognized for their work exploring the connection between Italian language and literature.

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.

The $6 million gift by an anonymous donor will endow two new faculty chairs named for illustrious Mount Holyoke alums in the arts: the Debra Martin Chase ’77 Chair in Film Media Theater and the Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 Chair in Creative Writing.

Mount Holyoke College students have created an exhibit, “Cornelia and Concrete,” about alum Cornelia Clapp and the 100-year-old laboratory building that bears her name.

A Mount Holyoke College alum and a professor emeritus, who are both historians, wrestle with their family histories in a new podcast.