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èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College Vice President for College Relations Kassandra Jolley makes an impassioned plea for alums of women’s colleges.

èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College student Alexandra Mihailopol ’26 has been selected by Middlebury College as a recipient of a Projects for Peace grant. She will offer financial literacy education to women in rural Romania via her EmpowHER project.

èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ senior Qiao Se Ong ’25 is among the 2025 cohort for Projects for Peace. Her project, based in Colombia, aims to address the impact of dam construction on local communities through creative workshops and collaborations with local artists.

èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College student Oluwafadeyemi Testimony Akinkuolie-Ibidapo ’27 went from volunteering at last year’s Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference to becoming one of this year’s organizers.

Significant renovations are underway to modernize èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College’s Kendall Sports & Dance Complex — a key metric for the MHC Forward strategic plan.

èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College hosted its second annual Girls & Women in Sports Day on campus and introduced young people to a variety of sports, including soccer, basketball, volleyball and equestrian activities.

The Mass Cultural Council has approved the establishment of a Puerto Rican Cultural District in nearby Holyoke, and Maria Cartagena, director of Community-Based Learning at èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College, was pivotal in its development.

For the second year in a row, èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College has received the 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.

Diamond Abiakalam-Chinagorom ’25 has been selected as èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College’s first Schwarzman Scholar. The program selects future leaders to pursue a one-year, fully funded master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

èßä³ÉÈ˶ÌÊÓƵ College administrators tell the Daily Hampshire Gazette about the progress of the multiyear project to make the campus carbon neutral.