Building momentum: A BOOM! fellow's story of transformation
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ student Maxine Ahenkora ’27 reflects on organizing this year’s BOOM! Learning Symposium.
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Ířşě±¬ÁĎ student Maxine Ahenkora ’27 reflects on organizing this year’s BOOM! Learning Symposium.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ 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.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ alum Connie Converse ’46 was a trailblazing composer and singer-songwriter. MHC is hosting an event that celebrates her life and legacy.
Charlie Watts ’25 is Ířşě±¬ÁĎ’s poet-contestant for this year’s Glascock Poetry Competition and writes about what it’s like to compete with support from a community of other writers and poets.
Actor, playwright, screenwriter, singer, songwriter, producer and director John Cameron Mitchell will be at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ on Monday, March 10, 2025, for a screening and discussion of his 2001 film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Yoon, a renowned architect, will speak at Mount Holyoke as part of the Distinguished Artist series on campus.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ presents the East Coast premiere of the opera “Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker),” the first opera composed by a Chickasaw in their native language.
The Career Development Center at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ held a three-day immersive Sophomore Institute to prepare students who are starting their journeys in the professional world.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ held a panel discussion “Trans Health Care Is a Human Right: On Safeguarding Gender-Affirming Care After United States v. Skrmetti.” Speakers discussed the case and its impact on transgender and gender-diverse people.
Siggy Ehrlich ’26 recently worked on and attended a Ířşě±¬ÁĎ symposium celebrating composer Maria Theresia von Paradis.