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Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.

Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå has announced that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey will be the primary speaker at its one hundred eighty-eighth Commencement. Two Mount Holyoke alums, Bess Weatherman ’82 and Tara Roberts ’91, will also be honored at the event.

Influential and trailblazing Congresswoman Nita Lowey ’59 has passed away at the age of 87.

Two Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå students took home awards from the 2024 New England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Fall Conference for their research on water scarcity in the Southwest and on the preservation of indigenous water systems in Nepal.

In front of a packed crowd in Mount Holyoke’s Gamble Auditorium, a panel of legal scholars and political experts discussed what we could expect not only from the upcoming presidential election but also from more hyper-focused local races.

Taking part in a two-day workshop featuring alums, staff and current interns, Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå 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.

New faculty at Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå 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.

Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå researchers have developed a new open-access, interactive database and story map of U.S. immigration sanctuary policies that were passed between 2001 and 2014.

Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå student and alum leaders gathered in Chapin Auditorium in celebration of the many contributions made to the community throughout the year.

Six Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå faculty members have been selected as recipients of the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship. The awards will fund travel to further advance their studies, leading to increased opportunities for students.