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Four faculty members honored for teaching and scholarship
In what has become a signature College tradition, four Mount Holyoke faculty members were honored for their scholarship and teaching at a March 2 ceremony.
Mount Holyoke’s 2023 flower show is in full bloom
The fifty-first annual flower show is underway. Catch it before it fades away!
Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice
The Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College will be hosting the event from April 13-15, 2023. Speakers include Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Kat Cadungog and Tamar Toles O’Laughlin.
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STEM in the news
Four faculty members honored for teaching and scholarship
In what has become a signature College tradition, four Mount Holyoke faculty members were honored for their scholarship and teaching at a March 2 ceremony.
The buzz about bumblebee sensitivity
Mount Holyoke students are assisting a visiting assistant lecturer with her research of bumblebee sensitivity to heat and disease amid growing environmental threats.
Managing the mind
Mental malaise and brain burn: Mount Holyoke professor Marta Sabariego talked to the New York Times about how to manage your mind and train your brain.
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Arts in the news
Glascock poetry competition celebrates its centennial
This year Mount Holyoke College will hold the one hundredth anniversary of the Glascock Poetry Contest. Established in 1923, the annual contest is the oldest continuously running poetry contest for undergraduate students in the United States.
Does AI spell the end of painting?
To gain perspective on the rise of AI-generated art, Mount Holyoke College Art History Professor Anthony Lee looked back on the impact photography had on painting in the nineteenth century in a recent Wired Magazine essay.
Launching Leadership: Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 and Debra Martin Chase ’77
Love, work and the importance of connection were the overarching themes of a Launching Leadership discussion with Mount Holyoke alums Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 and Debra Martin Chase ’77 after an electrifying performance of Parks’ play “Topdog/Underdog.”
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Faculty in the news
Four faculty members honored for teaching and scholarship
In what has become a signature College tradition, four Mount Holyoke faculty members were honored for their scholarship and teaching at a March 2 ceremony.
Mount Holyoke graduate teacher licensing classes are online
After state approval, Mount Holyoke’s graduate teaching licensure program will offer all classes online at times designed to maximize accessibility for all.
Inspiration from the Great Migration
Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.
Happening at Mount Holyoke
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Mount Holyoke’s 2023 flower show is in full bloom
The fifty-first annual flower show is underway. Catch it before it fades away!
Inspiration from the Great Migration
Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.
Biden’s immigration policies lack a holistic approach
Mount Holyoke professor David Hernández says Biden’s carrot-and-stick approach to immigration is rooted in Trump-era policies that exacerbate inequities among immigrants and erode international relationships.
Campus Voices
What stories will you tell?
Mount Holyoke has shifted my perspective on the world around me
Emilia Fallman ’22
Following passions leads to a career in helping others address trauma
Laura Khoudari ’00
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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