Mount Holyoke College • Vista • Spring 2013, Vol. 18, No. 1


News
The New York Times recognized Tamar Westphal ’12 for her outstanding student senior performance project in the Education Life section.


Mount Holyoke’s decision to freeze tuition for the second year in a row was cited in the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and the Wall Street Journal.
MHC President Lynn Pasquerella is among the leaders in higher educa- tion pledging to fight global poverty through philanthropy, engagement, and increased awareness.


The Princeton Review once again named MHC among the 150 U.S. colleges that give consumers the best overall value for the tuition dollar.


As one of eight winners of the 2012 Young Playwrights Inc. National Competition, Catia Cunha ’14 presented her winning play in New York City in February.


The Huffington Post praises Elizabeth Carlson’s ’10 travel blog: with “25 countries under her belt,” she’s worth watching in 2013.


A new Ken Burns documentary and PBS series, The Dust Bowl, features 1901 alumna Caroline Boa Henderson in the story of the worst manmade ecological disaster in U.S. history.


Marija Tesla ’11 spoke about mentoring to high school students participating in Youth Lead the Change, a program of Harvard’s Leadership Institute. Tesla, who works at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, reflected upon those themes in a blog post for the Women in Public Service Project.


Students and alumnae now have access to SALT, a set of interactive online financial tools that helps them manage student loans and search for jobs and internships.


Barbara Smith ’69, groundbreaking publisher of women of color is included in Makers: Women Who Make America, a PBS documentary that tells the story of the women’s movement through firsthand accounts of the leaders, opponents, and trailblazers who created a new America in the last half-century.


Criminologist Richard Moran, professor of sociology, participated in a fiery debate on gun control on CNN.


Jenni “Fang” Lee ’15, who was featured in the documentary Somewhere Between, shared her life story with a sold-out crowd in a TEDx talk in San Francisco.


The Miller Worley Center for the Environment announced new internship opportunities through the Summer Leadership Fellowships fund that offers challenging internships arranged exclusively for MHC students at selected nonprofit organizations.


In February, the Mount Holyoke College squash team captured its seventh consecutive Seven Sisters Championship.

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