Separating the baby from the backwater
Anuses segregate babies from back ends, says Patricia Brennan, Mount Holyoke College assistant professor of biology.
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Anuses segregate babies from back ends, says Patricia Brennan, Mount Holyoke College assistant professor of biology.
Mount Holyoke hosted its first-ever virtual Commencement for its 184th ceremony to honor graduating seniors and send them on to do great things.
The culmination of Mount Holyoke students’ academic careers, Senior Symposium marks the metamorphosis from student to expert.
“I was finding the math in my drawings and the music in my art. I grew to love architecture, seeing where I could apply scientific principles to the arts.”
Mount Holyoke professor’s research finds that college admissions essays are even more strongly linked to socioeconomic status than test scores.
“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.”
“Instead of trying to fit myself into a box, Mount Holyoke demanded that I think about where am I strongest, where can I put these skills to use.”
Jenica Allen, manager of Mount Holyoke’s Campus Living Lab, was given the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Mount Holyoke juniors Shreya Nair and Shuyang Lin co-authored a paper that won third at an international conference for visual communication.
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