A timeless tradition: Mountain Day 2025
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s longest-running tradition is Mountain Day, and this year, the community made its way to the top of Mt. Holyoke to celebrate.
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Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s longest-running tradition is Mountain Day, and this year, the community made its way to the top of Mt. Holyoke to celebrate.
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, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s new assistant professor of biological sciences, studies fruit flies to understand how the human brain works.
Whitney Adana Kite, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.
Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s newest faculty are ready to engage across boundaries and beyond borders.
Ishmael Annang, Íøºì±¬ÁÏ’s new assistant professor of history, has a passion for African history that flows from his experiences growing up in Ghana.
A childhood growing up in the Balkans sparked the current research of Sidita Kushi, the new assistant professor of politics at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ, on why some conflicts inspire humanitarian military interventions, and some do not.
Mount Holyoke’s annual Convocation filled the campus with color, spirit and celebration as students in vivid class colors gathered to cheer and mark the official start of the academic year with tradition and decibels.
The class of 2029 arrived at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ campus for Move-in, ready to set up their rooms, meet new friends and start their MHC journeys.
Rising Íøºì±¬ÁÏ 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.