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MassLive reported on ߣߣ�� students’ work in tracing climate change through the campus’s beloved copper beech tree.

Two ߣߣ�� students took home awards from the 2024 New England and St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Fall Conference for their research on water scarcity in the Southwest and on the preservation of indigenous water systems in Nepal.

Taking part in a two-day workshop featuring alums, staff and current interns, ߣߣ�� students had the opportunity to learn what a career in environmental work entails and how to get on the right track to start their own journeys.

ߣߣ�� researchers have developed a new open-access, interactive database and story map of U.S. immigration sanctuary policies that were passed between 2001 and 2014.

Seattle is marking the one-year anniversary of its Race and Social Justice Initiative ordinance. Mount Holyoke Associate Professor Serin D. Houston writes that other cities can learn from the ordinance in an article for The Conversation.

Dinko Hanaan Dinko, a new faculty member at ߣߣ��, is interested in those who are benefiting and losing from climatic change and viewing the lived experiences of climate change through filters of power and economic and social identities.

Mount Holyoke senior Bridget Hall ’24 spent her summer on a “pretty special” glacier in Canada, doing research into climate change for an internship that confirmed her interest in glaciology.

Marsha Allen FP’10, ߣߣ�� assistant professor in earth science, was recently interviewed on the podcast “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.”

New faculty member Marsha Allen FP’10 isn’t a stranger to ߣߣ��. She came back to teach because the faculty’s focus on diversity and equity and on involving students in research was exactly what she was looking for.

Mount Holyoke geology professors tell US News & World Report that understanding the earth requires a firm grounding in liberal arts.