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High rankings for Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke College has been ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report, Washington Monthly and The New York Times.
How schools and parents can help prevent bullying
Mount Holyoke Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education Jackson M. Matos weighs in on Care.com about how adults can prevent bullying.
Joy, sunshine and cheers: Convocation 2023
Blazing sun didn’t defeat the costuming, cheers or thoughtful messages at Mount Holyoke’s Convocation, one of the loudest events of the year.
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Digging deeper into climate change
Mount Holyoke senior Bridget Hall ’24 spent her summer on a “pretty special” glacier in Canada, doing research into climate change for an internship that confirmed her interest in glaciology.
Mount Holyoke student named a “major league hacker”
Mount Holyoke College student Cynthia Akanaga ’25 has been named to Major League Hacking’s Top 50 List for 2023.
Antarctic mystery solved
Darby Dyar, Mount Holyoke College Kennedy-Schelkunoff Professor of Astronomy, was part of a team that solved a nearly century-old mystery of “Blood Falls” in Antarctica.
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Arts in the news
Uncovering the history of Indian dance and culture
Professor of Art History’s archival photo book of Indian dancer Ram Gopal, “Photo Attractions,” is reviewed in The Wire.
Peace prize helps children find the beat
Mount Holyoke senior Karla Biery wins a grant to bring music-, art- and activism-based summer programming to BIPOC youth.
From the club to the classroom — evolving the dance program at Mount Holyoke
Caleaf Sellers sees dance as a form of cultural storytelling, and his work preserves the movements of dance as living, evolving expressions of history, culture and joy.
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Faculty in the news
How schools and parents can help prevent bullying
Mount Holyoke Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education Jackson M. Matos weighs in on Care.com about how adults can prevent bullying.
Joy, sunshine and cheers: Convocation 2023
Blazing sun didn’t defeat the costuming, cheers or thoughtful messages at Mount Holyoke’s Convocation, one of the loudest events of the year.
A day of firsts: Move-in 2023
New Mount Holyoke College students descended on the campus, where they were welcomed by honorary “firstie” President Danielle R. Holley.
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High rankings for Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke College has been ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report, Washington Monthly and The New York Times.
Could Trump’s arrest disqualify his 2024 presidential bid?
Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley weighs in on the Fourteenth Amendment case which could take Trump off the 2024 ballot.
Lawlor’s novel named influential queer work by T Magazine
Mount Holyoke College faculty member Andrea Lawlor’s novel, “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl,” was ranked number 10 in T Magazine’s “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature.”
Campus Voices
What stories will you tell?
Achieving two goals at Mount Holyoke: working in a research lab and studying abroad
Annie Williams ’23
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Alumnae Quarterly Magazine
The Alumnae Quarterly as we know it began as The Mount Holyoke, a combination literary magazine, student newspaper, and alumnae publication. In 1916, the publication split, and the Mount Holyoke News student newspaper and the Alumnae Quarterly were born.
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