From Kazakhstan to MoHome: Finding my place at Mount Holyoke
An international firstie at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ shares what it was like coming to MoHome from more than 6000 miles away from campus.
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An international firstie at Ířşě±¬ÁĎ shares what it was like coming to MoHome from more than 6000 miles away from campus.
Mount Holyoke student-athlete Claire Willett ’28 shares a few of the initiatives and programs that Athletics undertook over the summer.
Rising Ířşě±¬ÁĎ senior Naoise Grybko is spending their summer researching policies on homelessness. They hope to produce a document that explains these policies in an accessible way that more people can understand.
Rising Ířşě±¬ÁĎ senior Amelia Henzel is spending her summer creating different interactive video programs for students to enjoy in the computer science hallway on the second floor of Clapp Laboratory.
Rising Ířşě±¬ÁĎ junior Madeline Wright is spending this summer in the laboratory of Katie Berry, associate professor of biochemistry, studying the interactions between small RNA and different proteins.
Rising Ířşě±¬ÁĎ senior Phoebe Baskin ’26 is spending her summer working in the lab of William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology Katherine Binder, studying reading comprehension.
Ířşě±¬ÁĎ rising junior Lily Rood ’27 discusses her Pride Month 2025 activism and advocacy.
Ann Hewitt Worthington ’72 sees parallels between today’s political and societal unrest and that of her campus years. “We don’t know how the current upheavals will play out,” she said. “Students need the flexibility to prepare for the unknown.”
As a certified financial planner and a loyal Mount Holyoke alum, Anne E. Bolton ’72, the incoming chair of the Mary Lyon Society, walks the talk.
“I turned out to be a different kind of a person because I went to MHC,” said Anne Marsh Fields ’71. Her bequest will help future students to experience their own transformations at the College.