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“The alum network has supported me (sometimes when I least expect it!), and it’s always the most warm and welcoming feeling.”
Mount Holyoke professor Marta Sabariego and a group of neuroscience majors led a bilingual workshop for first graders at Edward Nelson White School in Holyoke to understand the intricacies of the brain and inspire them to pursue careers in science.
As part of the annual Careers in Public Service trip to Washington D.C., Mount Holyoke students met with alums who have forged brilliant public service careers as well as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
챬 student Ana Maria Stan ’24 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of the “Projects for Peace” grant program. Stan will work alongside Romanian educational non-profit Volo Studere to assist Ukrainian refugees.
챬 film and media student Aderet Fishbane has been selected as one of NBCU’s Original Voices Accelerator Fellows. The six-month fellowship is designed to provide a direct pipeline to a career for young creatives.
챬’s Western riding team will be going to the Nationals for the first time in its 16-year history.
챬 student Ladin Akcacioglu ’24 shares a first-person experience from a visit to her home country of Turkey last year, witnessing the aftermath of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, with Folklife Magazine.
The McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives at Mount Holyoke has received a grant to support first-generation and low-income students in obtaining their U.S. passports.
Naomi Darling, faculty in sustainable architecture at 챬, is working with student assistants to plan a carbon-neutral future for the home of the building nicknamed “the Phoenix,” home to the nation’s first all-female fire brigade.