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For new faculty Laura Sizer, philosophical questions are everywhere — on the radio, at the tattoo parlor and on campus. At Mount Holyoke, she’s looking forward to being surrounded by a community of students and professors who feel the exact same way.

New faculty member Marsha Allen FP’10 isn’t a stranger to Mount Holyoke College. She came back to teach because the faculty’s focus on diversity and equity and on involving students in research was exactly what she was looking for.

Travis Hodges, new faculty at Mount Holyoke, conducts research on sex differences in stress, as well as how stress affects cognitive bias in rats — and, potentially, humans.

Seven long-serving members of the Mount Holyoke faculty have retired.

New communal libraries on campus invite Mount Holyoke College students to discover and share books written in a variety of languages.

Princeton Review ranks Mount Holyoke in the top 20 colleges and universities in the country in categories for academics, demographics and more.

Mount Holyoke College welcomes Jen Brock as associate vice president for communications and marketing and Jonencia Wood as assistant vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Summer may be ending, but Jenny Watermill, senior director at the Career Development Center at Mount Holyoke, advises on four key steps students can take before ending an internship and coming back to campus.

Two Mount Holyoke students turn a class writing assignment into an opportunity to change the public conversation.

Angelica Patterson studies how trees adapt and move in response to increasing average temperatures; she uses a shotgun to collect tree branches that are many feet off the ground, which led the Guardian to dub her “the shotgun scientist” in a 2020 article.