Vista • Spring 2011 • Volume 16 • Number 1

News

• Megan Couture FP ’11 is one of 23 women selected to be a delegate for the UN’s annual Commission on the Status of Women meetings, held in New York in March.
• MHC will serve as a consultant to Effat University—the first private institution of higher education for women in Saudi Arabia—to build its student development and academic support programs.
• An Vo ’12 was a Clinton Foundation recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Commitment Award in recognition of her powerful advocacy on behalf of the Vietnamese families impacted by Agent Orange.
• Study in Shanghai. New program focusing on economic transformation and business challenges in China begins in 2012. See http://www.mtholyoke.edu/global/mhc_shanghai.html.
• Keli Carender, who organized the first modern-day Tea Party rally, came to campus to give a student leadership workshop and share her story of individual activism that helped spark a national movement.
• MHC swimmers shattered two school records at the NEWMAC Women’s Swimming and Diving Championship, hosted by MHC. Teams from all ten member institutions battled for the conference crown in a weekend of competition.
• Surabhi Gupta ’11 was one of only ten undergraduates from across the nation selected for a summer research program at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon.
• Mount Holyoke hosted the Five College Student Leadership and Public Speaking Conference, “Speak Up! Practicing Everyday Leadership.” The conference was part of the Presidential Inaugural Series on Leadership.
• Meeran Karim ’13 discovered an affinity for journalism as an intern with Pakistan’s Dawn News TV, the country’s first 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel.
• In his new book, A World among These Islands: Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America, Professor Roberto Márquez looks at the Caribbean as a whole to understand its literary heritage and history. For the video, see MHC’s News & Events online.
• The latest book by Mount Holyoke history professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis, First Family: Abigail and John Adams, is listed on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller List. For the video, see MHC’s News & Events online.
• Professor Andrew Lass received the AAA/Oxford University Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology.

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