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As a clinical geneticist, Cyndy Curry ’63 has honed the ability to recognize patterns amid complex clinical presentations. She intends to continue Mount Holyoke’s pattern of preparing students for a complex world through a gift from her IRA to establish a charitable gift annuity — an act that both benefits the College and provides her with steady payments.

���챬�� student Gabriella Aviles ’27 attended the most recent Careers in Public Service event with the Weissman Center for Leadership and discovered bold new pathways for postgraduate careers.

���챬�� student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 is an awardee of this year’s Project for Peace grants from Middlebury College. She will launch a year-round food pantry in her hometown.

Cerebro 101 is an initiative led by ���챬�� faculty Marta Sabariego and Nieves Romero-Díaz that teaches dual-language elementary students about neuroscience and behavior.

Trailblazing Black feminist scholar Beverly Guy Sheftall will be the primary speaker at the ���챬�� Commencement. Two extraordinary Mount Holyoke alums, Leslie Anne Miller ’73 and Maria Z. Mossaides ’73, will also be honored.

���챬�� student Caroline Grace ’27 attended the fourth annual Lyon’s Pride Conference, an event that had her both connecting with the community and questioning the support for queer people of color.

���챬�� senior Emma Adler Quirk ’26 attended the 2026 Lyon’s Pride Conference that explored LGBTQ+ life on and off campus.

���챬�� senior Gabrielle Saint-Fleur ’26 was thinking narrowly about life post-graduation. Thanks to the Careers in Public Service trip, she now knows she has the world at her fingertips.

���챬�� students Molly DeLuca ’26, Marley Hollen ’28 and Abigail Ding ’29 got to shadow stage managers for the touring production of the musical “Suffs,” which features alum Tami Dahbura ’84.

���챬�� alum Weijing Liu ’22 is the College’s second Schwarzman Scholar and looks forward to exploring her questions about global affairs.