Vista • Fall 2010 • Volume 15 • Number 2
News
Mount Holyoke offers the best classroom experience in the country, according to the Princeton Review Guide’s 2011 annual guidebook, The Best 373 Colleges.
Marine scientist Barbara A. Block headlined the October dedication of the Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Center for the Environment.
Gabrielle Gregg ’08—@gabifresh— won a nationwide contest and a $100,000 contract to become MTV’s first Twitter Jockey. The Detroit native now tweets as @MTVTJ.
Casey Maliszewski FP’10 attended the White House Summit on Community Colleges as a student representative to address strengthening two-year institutions. Maliszewski was one of five students chosen from Phi Theta Kappa to attend.
In August, Lynn Pasquerella travelled to Kenya with the Africa Center for Engineering Social Solutions. Shown left, with her son, Spencer Kuchle, a Hampshire College student, with a ceramic water pot designed to filter contaminants.
Professor of geology Al Werner led undergraduates on a climate change research trip this past summer to Svalbard, Norway— and the results were chilling.
MHC honored the memory and legacy of former U.S. poet laureate, Nobel Prize-winner, and late faculty member Joseph Brodsky in a two-day celebration titled Joseph Brodsky: A Poet and His Place.
In recognition of her work to educate women and girls in Afghanistan, Sadiqa Basiri Saleem ’09 has been named the 2010 Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellow.
As a summer student intern with CNN, Marianna Nash ’11 wrote about the serious and the light, from the impact of the Gulf oil spill to the challenges of maintaining a summer romance.
Schuyler Marquez ’11 (left) presented at this year’s LEAP (Learning from Application) symposium. Her research on “The Integration of Muslims in Denmark: Insights from a First Encounter with Anthropological Fieldwork and Writing,” was among more than 100 student presentations on summer internship and research experiences.
With publication of her debut poetry collection, Spring’s Third Day, Laura Gross FP’11 turns to nature to find her voice—both on and off the page.
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