Irish President Mary McAleese challenged Mount Holyoke College graduates Sunday to keep up the fight to bring equal rights and opportunities to women and men across the globe.
It will be an "all-green" event when Mount Holyoke College celebrates its 172nd commencement and confers 600 degrees on Sunday, May 24 -- beginning with the president of the Emerald Isle as commencement speaker.
Mary McAleese, the president of Ireland, will give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree at the 172nd Mount Holyoke College commencement on May 24.
Mount Holyoke College professor Christopher Rivers, who translated heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson's memoirs in "My Life and Battles" (2007), is available to discuss efforts to pardon the late athlete for violating the Mann Act.
Mount Holyoke professor Gail A. Hornstein offers readers a provocative new perspective on mental illness and recovery "“ one based on patients' own accounts of their experiences.
When Sadiqa Basiri Saleem returned to her homeland after the fall of the Taliban in 2002, she was disheartened to find Afghani women were being denied an education. She has since worked to correct that situation, and last week her efforts were formally recognized.
When it comes to patriotic acts, paying taxes is as important as voting for president, according to John O. Fox, professor of complex organizations at Mount Holyoke College.
Joanne V. Creighton, president of Mount Holyoke College, announced today that she will step down at the end of the 2009-2010 academic year after nearly 15 years of service.
Mount Holyoke College professor Karen L. Hollis has edited a special tribute issue of Behavioural Processes, titled "Comparative Cognition in Context," featuring 16 research reports on the evolution of animal cognition.
When in a predator's grips, many lizards drop their tails to escape. But what price do they pay for freedom? A team led by biology professor Gary Gillis of Mount Holyoke College found the lizards were compromised: They could no longer jump without tumbling backwards, making it difficult to land safely when jumping between branches.
Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will be the speaker at Mount Holyoke College's 164th commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 27. Additional honorary degrees will be bestowed.
Launching October 12, an innovative program, take the lead!, will empower 33 high school students from around the country to address social issues in their own communities.
On September 16, hundreds of entering Mount Holyoke College students will spend the day learning about western Massachusetts's Pioneer Valley region, as part of a new orientation program designed to foster connection.
A new leadership summit for high school juniors,"take the lead!," will bring 30 promising young women to Mount Holyoke College during the height of the New England fall foliage season for an extended weekend of workshops and activities, October 12-15.
Mary Patterson McPherson, president emeritus of Bryn Mawr College and vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will be the commencement speaker at Mount Holyoke College's 163rd commencement ceremonies on May 21.
The Economics Department of Mount Holyoke College is hosting a conference on "The World Economy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities," Feb. 18 and 19, 2000.
Former national security adviser Anthony Lake will launch a series concerning U.S. foreign interventions with a lecture called "Foreign Humanitarian Intervention: Which Children to Save?" (Feb. 10, 2000).
A conference in February at Mount Holyoke College will tackle the role of women in the unfolding high-tech revolution. Panelists will examine the myths and realities of information technologies' impact.
Awaiting an opening ceremony in the year 2000 is a time capsule from 1900 left for the graduating class of 2000 at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Unlikely Couple's, Movie Romance as Social Criticism, a new book by Tom Wartenberg, explores cross-class, cross-race, and homosexual couples in 10 popular films and looks at how these films -- wittingly or not -- undermine or question prevailing social mores.
Mount Holyoke College will celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 162-year history.
On Sunday, May 23, Anna Quindlen, novelist, social critic, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 162nd commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
Coming full circle, the institution that first recognized the talent of acclaimed poet Virginia Hamilton Adair will again herald her genius, after more than 60 years, this January 11 at a special afternoon ceremony at Mount Holyoke College in Claremont, California.
On September 10, Mount Holyoke College professor of chemistry Sheila E. Browne will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at the White House from President Clinton.
Mount Holyoke College, one of the oldest lberal arts colleges for women in the United States, will again celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 161 year history.
On Sunday, May 24, Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Spelman College and its first African American woman president, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 161st commencement address.
In Western Massachusetts from April 29 through May 3, Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, will step on stage in two different venues to pursue interests in Chekhov and women. Their first stop will be Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley where the pair will hold a master class on April 29.
Modern performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion--an acknowledged masterpiece of Western music--are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music, and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
The new Mount Holyoke Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy has invited four prominent experts with opposing points of view to examine the potential success or failure of current directions in welfare policy and to debate both the likely outcome of current reforms.
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