Mount Holyoke College News

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With new alums ranging from 18 to 80, Holyoke Community College yielded 1,000 new graduates for the third year in a row on Saturday.

As students encounter multiple career changes post-college, it's their open-mindedness and intellectual curiosity that will guide them to succes,A New College of Florida outgoing President Gordon E. "Mike" Michalson, Jr., told the college's Class of 2012 on Friday.

For the past 40 years, the Woods Hole Community Association has celebrated summer's return with its annual Woods Hole May Festival.

SOUTH HADLEY - Four dynamic speakers imparted life lessons that asked the nearly 600 Mount Holyoke College graduating women to draw upon their scholarly achievements to make the world a better place for themselves and future generations.

Jacquelin Jackter, was one of eleven students from Connecticut's community and junior colleges recognized as a member of the All-Connecticut Academic Team at an awards ceremony last month at the State Capitol Building.

Next week Bedford Central community members will vote on the districts $122 million budget proposal and elect three board members.

Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- -- ICF International, a leading provider of consulting services and technology solutions to government and commercial clients, has named Elaine Haemisegger to the position of vice president of energy, environment, and infrastructure.

Woodland resident Julia Frankenbach has received a Beinecke Scholarship and is one of 20 college juniors nationwide to receive the prestigious award, according to a news release from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., where she is studying.

Rachel Maddow talks about the U.S.'s embrace of perpetual war as a way of life and looks at how our views of war - and the business of war - has changed since Vietnam.