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Colleges plan for possible end to affirmative action

Mount Holyoke President-elect Danielle Holley spoke to Reuters about how colleges and universities are preparing for the end of affirmative action.

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The participants of the 2023 Stoling Ceremony

Celebrating students of color and the power of mentorship

Nearly 150 students participated in the Stoling Ceremony, an important Commencement weekend tradition celebrating the achievements of students of color and their Mount Holyoke mentors.

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Baccaleureate 2023

Baccalaureate is a cherished tradition

During Baccalaureate, Mount Holyoke seniors gather together in Abbey Memorial Chapel on the Saturday evening before Commencement. They hear remarks from selected faculty members, classmates and College leadership.

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A game of Settlers of Catan. Courtesy of Yongho Kim via Wikimedia Commons.

Game On! teaches math concepts through board games

Game On!, a free two-week mathematical enrichment program for high school students, is now open for registration. The program runs July 3–14, 2023, and will be held on the Mount Holyoke College campus.

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Gracie Wilkinson ’25 named Western Massachusetts Scholar

Mount Holyoke sophomore Gracie Wilkinson, a chemistry major and environmental studies minor from Amherst, Massachusetts, has been named the recipient of this year’s Western Massachusetts Scholarship Fund.

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Maat Mons, a Venusian volcano, in an image produced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Volcanoes on Venus

New evidence from old pictures has reignited the search for volcanism on Venus, but the VERITAS mission is expected to reveal the truth, says Mount Holyoke’s Darby Dyar.

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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.

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Caleaf Sellers

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.

  • Arts: Fine and Performing
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  • Five College Consortium
The new Enrich/Discover project will increase the accessibility of thousands of museum resources by ensuring their descriptions are clear and culturally accurate, thus making them easier to find by Five College students and faculty members, as well as people worldwide.

NEH grant will make museum collections more accessible

A major effort by a Five College-based museum collaboration to create a shared collections resource for students, researchers and the general public has received a $350,000 boost from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Three Mount Holyoke professors spoke at Final Lecture, giving talks that ranged from aspirational to deeply personal.

Graduating seniors treated to an unforgettable Final Lecture

Three Mount Holyoke professors spoke at Final Lecture, giving talks that ranged from aspirational to deeply personal.

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Near the US-Mexican border in Campo, California. Photo by Greg Bulla on Unsplash.

Migrants risk entering the U.S. through the desert

Davíd Hernández, associate professor of Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, spoke to NPR about the risks migrants face when trying to come to the United States.

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Artist's concept of the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (Veritas) spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA's Discovery program. Courtesy NASA/JPL.

Veritas hits “pause” on launch

NASA’s Veritas mission to explore Venus has been put on hold for three years — and Mount Holyoke professor Darby Dyar isn’t happy about it.

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A wide angled shot of the U.S. Supreme Court

Colleges plan for possible end to affirmative action

Mount Holyoke President-elect Danielle Holley spoke to Reuters about how colleges and universities are preparing for the end of affirmative action.

  • Activism and Social Justice
  • Mount Holyoke in the News
  • President
Near the US-Mexican border in Campo, California. Photo by Greg Bulla on Unsplash.

Migrants risk entering the U.S. through the desert

Davíd Hernández, associate professor of Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, spoke to NPR about the risks migrants face when trying to come to the United States.

  • Faculty
  • Mount Holyoke in the News
Artist's concept of the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (Veritas) spacecraft, a proposed mission for NASA's Discovery program. Courtesy NASA/JPL.

Veritas hits “pause” on launch

NASA’s Veritas mission to explore Venus has been put on hold for three years — and Mount Holyoke professor Darby Dyar isn’t happy about it.

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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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