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Mount Holyoke College film and media student Aderet Fishbane has been selected as one of NBCU’s Original Voices Accelerator Fellows. The six-month fellowship is designed to provide a direct pipeline to a career for young creatives.

Mount Holyoke College student Cynthia Akanaga ’25 has been named to Major League Hacking’s Top 50 List for 2023.

Two Mount Holyoke College students will spend the next year conducting advanced research as part of the Beckman Scholars Program. They will each conduct 15-month, one-on-one mentored research projects with College faculty.

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.

When Ansley Keane graduates from Mount Holyoke in May of 2023, she will be ready to teach history to children — including the child of the director of undergraduate early childhood and elementary licensure programs at the College.

Two Mount Holyoke alums and members of its Board of Trustees met with Interim President Beverly Daniel Tatum to discuss finance careers, changing plans and leaps of faith at the latest Launching Leadership conversation on April 11.

“Through the classes I’ve taken, I have a much better sense of what I’m interested in and what I want to do with the future. The professors ... are really there to make sure that you understand all of this material.”

“International relations is a subset of political science. I’ve had professors introduce me to things I didn’t even know existed. I was able to learn about all different aspects of politics, and that was incredibly helpful.”

“It doesn’t matter where you come from and all the obstacles that come your way. You can do it. With the right people and keeping yourself focused, you can achieve anything.”

“I want to use what I’ve experienced [at Mount Holyoke] to make lives better, especially in those small-scale, interpersonal ways.”