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Senior Symposium

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What is Senior Symposium?

An annual event where seniors share the projects, scholarly research, and intellectual passions that they have brought to their year of independent research, 395-course work or other course work that demonstrates depth of research and analysis during their senior year.

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Senior Symposium 2021

The culmination of Mount Holyoke students’ academic careers, Senior Symposium marks the metamorphosis from student to expert.

Mathilda Scott ’20 presented her project “Agriculture on a Rampage: The Last Stand of the Agrarian Democracy” entirely online.

Senior Symposium highlights student research

Mount Holyoke College’s Senior Symposium showcases the intellectual passions and scholarly research of its students.  

Senior Symposium 2017

Senior Symposium 2017 to be held April 21

Mount Holyoke’s annual presentation by seniors of their research, representing a wide range of topics and results, will take place April 21.

Paige Schonher ’15, whose presentation was "The Goodness of Beauty and the Beauty of Goodness, Or How Pop Music Will Make You a Bad Person." Photo by Emily Weir

Senior Symposium showcases student studies.

More than 150 seniors presented at the annual event, synthesizing their substantial work into 12-minute talks on topics abstract and concrete, timely and timeless.