Mount Holyoke College News

Lynn Pasquerella, the daughter of a welder and a factory worker, hopes to expand the reach of Mount Holyoke College across the globe when she becomes its next president in July.

This strange alien-like creature is not a character from a science-fiction blockbuster but actually from far closer to home.

Yet more academic libraries are looking to save money by sharing functions. The Five College Librarians Council has released a draft report that addresses cost savings by consolidating acquisition, cataloging, and book processing functions among the Five Colleges, Inc.

STAUNTON - Marian Berky Read, 88, while in the loving company of her three children, passed away Wednesday, Nov.

Kristen Schafenacker, 26, is the senior farm assistant at Added Value, an urban farm located opposite the Ikea in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The University of Michigan Department of Theatre & Drama presents "Uncommon Women and Others," playing Thursday through Sunday at the Arthur Miller Theatre.

Two top-ranked liberal arts colleges have signed onto a program that gives student leaders from Miami-Dade County full college scholarships.

On display in a museum in Heidelberg is a curious jacket created by a patient who spent her adult life locked up inside a mental asylum in the late 1800s.

Maine Fast Fact : Portland was originally named Machigonne by the Native Americans meaning "Great Knee" but was renamed Casco when the city was settled by the British in 1632.

Helpful acts, such as grooming or foster parenting, are common throughout the animal kingdom, but accounts of animals rescuing one another from danger are exceedingly rare, having been reported in the scientific literature only for dolphins, capuchin monkeys, and ants.

For decades, children have been mesmerized by plays at the Nashville Children's Theatre as they watched the stories they loved come to life.

Lynn Pasquerella, provost at the University of Hartford for the past 18 months, has been named president of her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass.

Philosopher is named head of Mount Holyoke SOUTH HADLEY - Lynn Pasquerella, a philosopher and medical ethicist and the current provost at the University of Hartford, was named the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College.

A new president has been chosen for Mount Holyoke College. Trustees of the one of the world's oldest women's colleges named University of Hartford Provost Lynn Pasquerella to succeed outgoing president Joanne Creighton.

Victoria Fahlberg, the executive director of ONE Lowell and leader of the Fair Vote Lowell initiative was instrumental in getting a referendum on the Nov.

Plans just revealed by the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children for nationwide surveys to gauge the extent of domestic violence and child abuse will bring into focus issues often neglected - and they are not alone.

Sara Ackerman Aoyama of Amherst, announces the engagement of her daughter, Shana Louisa Aoyama, to 2nd Lieutenant John "Jack" Schuyler Mattson of Del Rio, Texas.

A Texas A&M nutrition and food science professor has been elected as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.

Approaching the stage on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," contestant Kate Crowther had just one thought running through her mind: Don't fall out of the chair.

Barbara Vianne Hussey of Kittery and formerly of Chicago, died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.