News

With Fulbrights awarded to six Mount Holyoke students, this has been a banner year for the College when it comes to the prestigious international scholarship program.

May 15, 2012

In an oped for the Los Angeles Times, MHC's Professor of History on the Ford Foundation, Joseph Ellis, analyzes the history of U.S. government as "them, not us."

May 14, 2012

In the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Mellon Professor of English and Acting Dean of Faculty Christopher Benfey reviews John Sutherland's Lives of the Novelists.

May 14, 2012

Best-selling author Azar Nafisi will give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree when MHC celebrates its 175th commencement on Sunday, May 20.

May 11, 2012

Connie Ip ’13 and Jessica Ramirez ’15 have been awarded U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships to further their language studies this summer.

May 11, 2012

Video: Last week, students in an innovative joint course taught by Rogelio Miñana and Jon Western presented their final projects to a panel that included a State Department official.

May 11, 2012

In this week's news, President Emeritus Creighton extends her stay at Haverford College, while an alum rubs elbows with Secretary of State Clinton in Bangladesh.

May 10, 2012

Video: This spring, visiting lecturer Stephanie Brown led a new architectural studies course that required students to redesign South Hadley’s landfill and recycling center.

May 9, 2012

Influenced by her experiences in art classes, anthropology major Noa Kasman ’12 conducted summer research to explore art and the use of color as a social process.

May 9, 2012

MHC mathematics and physics professor Mark A. Peterson talks about his most recent book, Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts, in a Harvard University video.

May 8, 2012

In an interview with NEPR's Susan Kaplan, MHC's Christopher Benfey shares some early memories and talks about his new book Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay.

May 8, 2012

In an interview with NEPR's Susan Kaplan, MHC's Christopher Benfey shares some early memories and talks about his new book Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay.

May 8, 2012

The German Missions in the United States organization reports on its web site on this year's German Theatre Festival, hosted by MHC April 26 in Chapin Auditorium.

May 8, 2012

Five MHC students won awards for their entrepreneurial spirit at the ninth annual awards for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative.

May 8, 2012

Development director MaryAnne Young '81, who has worked for Mount Holyoke in various capacities since 1984, will become the College's new vice president for development.

May 7, 2012

The Year of Wendy Wasserstein will culminate with The Wendy Chronicles, written by MHC’s Leanna James Blackwell and based on the life and writings of Wendy Wasserstein ’71.

May 7, 2012

Sami Hermez, visiting professor in legal and political anthropology, spoke on Aljazeera about how the international community might end the violence in Syria. (See him at 4:10.)

May 7, 2012

MHC graduate Stacey Funston ’11 recently undertook a project of her own design to restore a public pathway in Holyoke known as "the dingle."

May 5, 2012

Today is Derby Day, and MHC's Christopher Benfey reviews D.J. Taylor's new and aptly named book for the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

May 5, 2012

Faith E. Beasley '80, a professor at Dartmouth College, has won a Guggenheim Fellowship that will allow her to finish her sixth book, Exotic Encounters: Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal.

May 4, 2012

Four new trustees–Suzy George '90, Karena Strella '90, Debra Martin Chase '77, and Heather Harde '91–have joined Mount Holyoke’s Board of Trustees this year.

May 4, 2012

Levees.org founder Sandy Rosenthal '79 examines the myth that conservationists stymied the Army Corps' efforts to construct barriers to prevent flooding in New Orleans.

May 4, 2012

Professor of History Dan Czitrom has been elected as a member of the Society of American Historians and will be inducted into the society May 14 in New York City.

May 3, 2012

MHC dance instructor Jenn Weber is profiled in Dance Magazine, and her performance with Joyce SoHo's In Rep series is reviewed in the New Yorker.

May 3, 2012

Elizabeth Childs '82 is running for the Massachusetts congressional seat being vacated by retiring Congressman Barney Frank, reports the Taunton Gazette.

May 2, 2012