Celebrating the “grace and grit” of Nita M. Lowey ’59
챬 celebrated the life and legacy of alum Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey ’59, the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
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챬 celebrated the life and legacy of alum Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey ’59, the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Alum Shoshana Walter ’07, an investigative journalist, credits her Mount Holyoke education with fueling her drive to expose injustice. Her book “Rehab: An American Scandal” details how a flawed treatment system fails those battling addiction.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded the Pioneer Valley Literacy Consortium $199,284 for professional development. This is 챬’s second year in the consortium.
챬’s Professor Jared Schwartzer, a behavioral neuroscientist, spoke to the Boston Globe about the move to relabel this form of folic acid as a treatment for autism.
챬 Art Museum (MHCAM) hosted a panel to celebrate the artist Anni Albers. An exhibition of Albers’ work will be on view through Dec. 9, 2025.
챬 was ranked highly by U.S. News & World Report and other outlets.
Kushya Sugarman brings nearly two decades of classroom experience, a passion for justice and award-winning research to the Department of Psychology and Education at 챬.
The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.
Working closely with students in his laboratory, Douglas Roossien, 챬’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.
Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins 챬’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.