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Mark Shea, Senior Lecturer in English, awarded the Mount Holyoke Faculty Award for Teaching.
Tian Hui Ng, Professor of Music and Director of the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra, awarded the Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship.
The author of “Dear Miss Perkins” had coffee at Frances Perk and discussed the book’s start as a suggestion from Perkins’ biographer and the narrative’s first iteration as Graham’s Mount Holyoke senior thesis.
챬 has been designated a research college by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom ’25 has been selected as 챬’s first Schwarzman Scholar. The program selects future leaders to pursue a one-year, fully funded master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Nearly 1,000 handwritten letters penned by missionary and scientist David Crockett Graham will be digitally scanned, archived and preserved by a 챬 history major and the Archives and Special Collections office.
At an awards ceremony held at the Italian Consulate in Boston, 챬 students from an intermediate Italian course were recognized for their work exploring the connection between Italian language and literature.
Two 챬 students took home awards from the 2024 New England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Fall Conference for their research on water scarcity in the Southwest and on the preservation of indigenous water systems in Nepal.
Siggy Ehrlich ’26 recently worked on and attended a 챬 symposium celebrating composer Maria Theresia von Paradis.
The $6 million gift by an anonymous donor will endow two new faculty chairs named for illustrious Mount Holyoke alums in the arts: the Debra Martin Chase ’77 Chair in Film Media Theater and the Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 Chair in Creative Writing.
