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Announcing: The MH Commitment
The College has announced the Mount Holyoke Commitment: U.S. students with total family income up to $150,000 pay no tuition.
Mount Holyoke College is a six-time HEED Award recipient
For the sixth consecutive year, Mount Holyoke College has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight Into Academia.
Teaching the history and legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, vice president of equity and inclusion at Mount Holyoke College, met with other college educators to craft tools and classes to teach the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Designing research with undergraduates in mind
Working closely with students in his laboratory, Douglas Roossien, Mount Holyoke College’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.
Mount Holyoke College students’ summer research projects
Mount Holyoke College students who did research projects on campus this summer had the opportunity to present their work at a symposium in Kendade Hall.
Six faculty members retire from Mount Holyoke College
Six long-serving faculty members have retired from Mount Holyoke College.
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Arts in the news
Fostering critical analysis for text, film and media
Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins Mount Holyoke College’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.
From Armenian monasteries to campus neo-Gothic architecture
Whitney Adana Kite, Mount Holyoke College’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.
Honoring student leadership and achievement
Mount Holyoke College students gathered to be honored by the community for their leadership and service to others.
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Faculty in the news
Building classrooms of connection, care and resistance
Kushya Sugarman brings nearly two decades of classroom experience, a passion for justice and award-winning research to the Department of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.
Coming home to Mount Holyoke and the classics
The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.
Designing research with undergraduates in mind
Working closely with students in his laboratory, Douglas Roossien, Mount Holyoke College’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.
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Teaching the history and legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, vice president of equity and inclusion at Mount Holyoke College, met with other college educators to craft tools and classes to teach the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
Mount Holyoke defends academic freedom amid federal pressure
Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to CNN about being one of the few higher-education leaders pushing back against federal government overreach.
One Big Beautiful loss for renewable energy
In an editorial for the Globe, Mount Holyoke College Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics Robert Darrow said the bill prioritizes fossil fuel interests over climate action, making it nearly impossible for the U.S. to meet critical climate milestones.
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