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Taking part in a two-day workshop featuring alums, staff and current interns, Mount Holyoke College students had the opportunity to learn what a career in environmental work entails and how to get on the right track to start their own journeys.

The Intergroup Dialogue Center at Mount Holyoke College reached a new, major milestone by securing its first round of philanthropic investment from its most recent board chair, Karena Strella ’90.

For the fifth consecutive year, Mount Holyoke College has received the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from Insight Into Diversity.

Mount Holyoke College alum Earl Wren ’24 is the recipient of the AHEAD Student Recognition Award for their work amplifying student-led networks of accessibility and disability support and providing critical feedback to the Disability Services office.

Frances Perkins, Mount Holyoke College class of 1902, has been posthumously elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences under its Legacy Recognition Program.

President Danielle R. Holley shared some insights with MassLive on her experience as Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent president who is a woman of color amid the growing list of presidents stepping down from roles at academic institutions.

Mount Holyoke College’s newest faculty are redefining what’s possible in their fields as they join their colleagues in preparing students to lead boldly in an ever-changing world.

Alex Moskowitz, new faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, teaches early and nineteenth-century American and African American literature.

New faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Anisha Chadha, is a medical anthropologist who uses the tools and practices, as well as the methods, of sociocultural anthropology to study topics of health, medicine and illness.

New faculty at Mount Holyoke College Chloe Pak Drummond is a botanist and evolutionary biologist. She works with students to answer integrated evolutionary questions using field-based, molecular and bioinformatic techniques.