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$650 Million Forever Uncommon Campaign Launches
Mount Holyoke College launches the largest campaign ever undertaken by a women’s college, which will expand scholarships and career opportunities, advance academic excellence and reimagine campus life.
“A Map Is Only One Story” is the 2026 Common Read
Mount Holyoke College has selected “A Map Is Only One Story” for its Common Read for the 2026–27 academic year. Through the power of personal narratives, the anthology offers a new definition of home in the twenty-first century.
Becky Wai-Ling Packard named ACE Fellow
Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Psychology and Education, has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the 2026–27 academic year.
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Expressing a sense of place
Pujita Guha examines how Indigenous communities claim their environments amid rapid climate change.
Finding community in mathematics
Corrine Yap’s mathematics classrooms are shaped by the mentors, collaboration and support she found on her own educational journey.
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STEM in the news
Finding community in mathematics
Corrine Yap’s mathematics classrooms are shaped by the mentors, collaboration and support she found on her own educational journey.
The intersection of art and science
Liora Mael focuses her research on the battle to protect and conserve art in an age of climate change and increased danger.
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Arts in the news
Expressing a sense of place
Pujita Guha examines how Indigenous communities claim their environments amid rapid climate change.
Forgetting as an act of remembering
Madeline Fanton examines the ways in which we idealize the past as a means of identity and collective action.
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Faculty in the news
Expressing a sense of place
Pujita Guha examines how Indigenous communities claim their environments amid rapid climate change.
Finding community in mathematics
Corrine Yap’s mathematics classrooms are shaped by the mentors, collaboration and support she found on her own educational journey.
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Mount Holyoke in the news
MHC leaders named among Washington’s most powerful women
Three members of the Mount Holyoke College community were named to Washingtonian’s 2026 list of the 300 most powerful women in Washington, recognizing their leadership in philanthropy, government affairs and education.
Mount Holyoke earns recognition across the nation’s top college evaluation organizations
Mount Holyoke College was ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report and other outlets.
Mount Holyoke earns spot on Princeton Review’s Financial Aid Honor Roll
The College is one of just 22 schools nationwide, and the only women’s college, to receive the Princeton Review’s highest possible financial aid score, the latest recognition of Mount Holyoke's investment in access and affordability.
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Mount Holyoke College Alum Magazine
The magazine as we know it began as The Mount Holyoke, a combination literary magazine, student newspaper and alum publication. In 1916, the publication split, and the Mount Holyoke News student newspaper and the Alumnae Quarterly magazine were born. In 2025, the magazine was relaunched as the Mount Holyoke College Alum Magazine.
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