From history thesis to Tribal Director
My perseverance and the guidance I received at Mount Holyoke allowed me to make my vision of serving tribal communities a reality.
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Holly Sprague ’11
Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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My perseverance and the guidance I received at Mount Holyoke allowed me to make my vision of serving tribal communities a reality.
I learned at Mount Holyoke that scholarship injected with an activist sensibility is all the more valuable and impactful.
I have always loved the sky and I am curious about how things work in space and determining solutions for things we do not yet know or understand in our universe.
Studying the language, the culture, and the country inspired me to complete an independent study on Business in China and study in Beijing.
Poorna Swami ’15 discusses her time as an Editorial Research Assistant for the African Studies Review and a Help Desk Assistant for Mount Holyoke LITS.
Raman Spectroscopy is just the beginning.
Achaetey worked on research as a part of Professor Alexi Arango's lab. She helps manufacture solar cells. She started working in the lab in summer 2015, and within the few months from the beginning of summer to fall, she has already designed a piece of equipment and wrote a standard working procedure for the Arango lab!
Thanks to the support of her MHC professors, Aidan Diamond ’15 has been able to nurture an interest in Batman into a burgeoning academic career.
“My proudest accomplishment is that I will graduate with a degree in English. Four years ago, in my first English class, I understood almost nothing.”
Marbles champ Whitney Lapic ’18 came to Mount Holyoke and found mollusk fossils, international paleontology fieldwork and a passion for research.