Mount Holyoke College • Vista • Fall 2012, Volume 17 No. 2

News

• Gobbledigook, choreographed by Nina Joly ’11, was featured as the finale of the ChEck Us OuT Dance Festival in New York City’s Central Park.
• Biological sciences professor Amy Camp has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for “exception- ally creative new investigators who propose highly innovative projects.”
• Journalist Shannon Service ’97 gained the support of NPR to launch an intensive investigation into the practice of human trafficking in the Thai fishing industry.
• The College pennant appeared prominently in an advertisement for Target during the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympics. The ad depicted happy high school students opening acceptance notices from their college of choice.
• In a letter to the editor of the New York Times, MHC President Lynn Pasquerella addresses honesty in politics and whether politicians should ever lie.
• MHC history professor Daniel Czitrom has attracted both national and local media attention for his work as the historical consultant on the new BBC America drama, Copper.
• While interning for Reuters this summer, Anam Zehra ’14 reported on young Pakistanis who are pushing social boundaries through the under- ground party scene.
• Five MHC students attended Rio+20 in June, seeing firsthand the struggle of world leaders to find a balance between economic growth and environmental protection.
• The Chronicle of Higher Ed and ABC News note MHC is among the first colleges to support the Department of Education effort to help students better understand financial aid packages.
• Michelle Brooks-Thompson ’06 passed the blind auditions on The Voice and advanced to the next round. She selected Maroon 5’s Adam Levine to coach her throughout season three of the popular NBC television show.
• Jenni Lee ’15, who came to MHC by way of Berkeley, California, is a subject in the documentary Somewhere Between, which follows four young women who were adopted from China.
• Hanna Pylväinen ’07 is generating a great buzz with her first novel, We Sinners. She talked with NPR’s Linda Wertheimer about the book and its parallels to her own life.