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Latinx Heritage Month celebrates vibrant campus community
The student-led month of celebration for Latinx Heritage Month at Mount Holyoke College honors the richness of Latinx culture and connection on campus.
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona
Mount Holyoke College Weissman Fellow Carmen Yulín Cruz spoke to the press about the current situation in Puerto Rico and what the next steps should be.
Mount Holyoke receives diversity award for third year
Mount Holyoke College has received the 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
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STEM in the news
New faculty: Alyxander Burns ’17
The internet is full of charts and graphs. What new faculty Alyx Burns wants to know, though, is how well these visualizations convey information. “Charts and graphs are some of the technologies that we use to help people understand data,” he said.
New faculty: Derek Young
New faculty Derek Young knows that the “aha” moments students often have in math classes are one of the best rewards in teaching. When the opportunity to work at Mount Holyoke arose, Young knew it would be a great fit because of the focus on teaching.
New faculty: Kevin Surprise
New faculty Kevin Surprise was attracted to Mount Holyoke due to its small class sizes and the students’ curiosity. “The students drive the content and the questions that we explore in class,” he said.
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Arts in the news
Leading Women in the Arts presents artist Okwui Okpokwasili
Mount Holyoke College’s Leading Women in the Arts honors artist, performer, choreographer and writer Okwui Okpokwasili as the biennial series returns in person.
New faculty: Marianna Dixon Williams
New faculty Marianna Dixon Williams is a visual artist whose work spans a variety of media, including sound, video, computer science and fabrication.
Skinner Museum highlighted
Mount Holyoke’s Joseph Allen Skinner Museum was highlighted on WCVB’s “Chronicle”
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Faculty in the news
The political landscape in the UK after Queen Elizabeth II
Christopher Mitchell, assistant professor of politics and international relations at Mount Holyoke College, spoke to Western Mass News about the challenges the people of the United Kingdom are facing after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
New faculty: Sylvia Cifuentes
New Mount Holyoke faculty Sylvia Cifuentes has a special passion for feminist environmental studies and hopes to continue to collaborate with Indigenous women’s groups in their advocacy for climate justice initiatives.
New faculty: Marianna Dixon Williams
New faculty Marianna Dixon Williams is a visual artist whose work spans a variety of media, including sound, video, computer science and fabrication.
Happening at Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke in the news
Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona
Mount Holyoke College Weissman Fellow Carmen Yulín Cruz spoke to the press about the current situation in Puerto Rico and what the next steps should be.
The political landscape in the UK after Queen Elizabeth II
Christopher Mitchell, assistant professor of politics and international relations at Mount Holyoke College, spoke to Western Mass News about the challenges the people of the United Kingdom are facing after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Mount Holyoke College tops Princeton Review’s “Best 388 Colleges”
Princeton Review ranks Mount Holyoke in the top 20 colleges and universities in the country in categories for academics, demographics and more.
Campus Voices
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Positioned for success through a MHC summer internship
Adelia Brown ’23
Planting seeds, finding roots
Meredith Becher ’23
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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