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Vista • Mount Holyoke College • Spring/Summer • Vol. 17 No. 1


News

In an article in Forbes, award-winning filmmaker and Olympian Mary Mazzio ’83 talks about taking risks, pushing your limits, and having it all.
Mount Holyoke was selected as a 2012 “Best Value College” by the Princeton Review.
Five Colleges, Inc. has won a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore digital approaches to teaching the humanities and to strengthen connections between the liberal arts and professional education.
Field hockey won the ECAC tournament, and Shara Robertson ’12 earned NFHCA Division III First Team All-America honors.
With 17 alumnae currently serving as volunteers, MHC has moved up three spots this year on the Peace Corps’ top 25 list of small schools producing Peace Corps volunteers.
In keeping with MHC’s historic mission, the Board of Trustees decided not to increase tuition or room and board for the upcoming year.
Tabitha Ramotwala, a member of the first graduating class of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa, has been accepted to Mount Holyoke.
The Asian Studies Program has expanded to offer four majors: East Asian studies, Middle Eastern studies, South Asian studies, and Asian studies.
Associate Professor of Chemistry Megan Núñez is one of six professors to receive the 2011 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. This $60,000 unrestricted research grant and is given to faculty who are accomplished researchers and committed educators.
“Uncommon Playwrights” offered an intimate look into the culture of playwriting in America and the influence of Wendy Wasserstein ’71. The panel featured Pulitzer Prize winners Suzan-Lori Parks ’85 and Marsha Norman, and Christopher Durang.
The riding team took home top honors at the Tournament of Champions Winter Classic.
Best-selling author Azar Nafisi will deliver Mount Holyoke’s 2012 commencement address when the College celebrates its 175th commencement ceremony. Nafisi, best known as the author of the highly acclaimed Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), is currently a visiting professor and the director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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