Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Ířşě±¬ÁĎ senior Audrey Brecher ’26 originally planned to be an environmental studies major. Thanks to the supportive community and mentorship at the College, they now have a future in architecture.
James Harold, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Philosophy at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ, has been teaching philosophy to students in war-torn Ukraine.
Alum Shoshana Walter ’07, an investigative journalist, credits her Mount Holyoke education with fueling her drive to expose injustice. Her book “Rehab: An American Scandal” details how a flawed treatment system fails those battling addiction.
The biography of Ířşě±¬ÁĎ alum Ella Grasso ’40 was written by Linda Melconian ’70 with research assistance from recent alum Belinda Mazzaferro ’25.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ student Phoenix Nehls ’27 spent the summer of 2025 doing “detective work” — creating an exhibit about international students to fit together the puzzle of the past.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ Art Museum (MHCAM) hosted a panel to celebrate the artist Anni Albers. An exhibition of Albers’ work will be on view through Dec. 9, 2025.
The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.
Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins Ířşě±¬ÁĎ’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.
Whitney Adana Kite, Ířşě±¬ÁĎ’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.
Marco AvilĂ©s, incoming assistant professor of Spanish at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ, hopes to introduce students to the optimism in Indigenous literature as he takes on his family’s proud tradition of teaching.
