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2023 Williams Softball Season Outlook

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 18, 2023

This year, the Ephs will attempt to win their first NESCAC championship since they won three straight in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Inspiration from the Great Migration

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

Between 1910 and 1970, about six million Black Americans left the sharecropping South for better economic opportunities in the industrialized North.

Mount Holyoke graduate teacher licensing classes are online

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

As a nationwide teacher shortage threatens to destabilize public education, Mount Holyoke College’s teacher licensure graduate program now offers its licensure and master’s courses entirely online, having received the requisite approval from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Massachusetts.

Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

The Miller Worley Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College is hosting the Summit on Women’s Leadership in Climate Justice, a welcoming space for all genders and nonbinary people seeking to celebrate the accomplishments and vision of women in the field of climate justice.

“Funmilayo” — an opera for chorus, soloists and orchestra

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

The African opera series at Mount Holyoke College has become one of the signature series of the music department, produced in collaboration with the Department of Film, Media, and Theater.

Bluedrop Machine usage during the snow storm

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

Because of the heavy equipment entering and exiting the Highway Department before and during the possible snow storm, we are asking residence to refrain from using the Bluedrop machine until clean up is complete.

Four faculty members honored for teaching and scholarship

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 16, 2023

In what has become a signature College tradition, four Mount Holyoke faculty members were honored for their scholarship and teaching at a March 2 ceremony. Receiving Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Awards for Scholarship were Katie Berry, associate professor of biochemistry, and Iyko Day, Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English and chair of both critical social thought and English.

Inspiration from the Great Migration

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 13, 2023

Mount Holyoke professor Preston Smith spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Migration, when millions of Black Americans left the sharecropping South for economic opportunity in the North.

Mount Holyoke graduate teacher licensing classes are online

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 13, 2023

After state approval, Mount Holyoke’s graduate teaching licensure program will offer all classes online at times designed to maximize accessibility for all.

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West Massachusetts News area weekly mass times

By West Massachusetts News | Mar 11, 2023

The following parishes in the West Massachusetts News coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

The Morgan Library Rejoiced When It Saw This Photo from the Amherst Archives

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 8, 2023

The words “famous” and “librarian” seldom show up in the same sentence. But Belle da Costa Greene was emphatically both.

Williams College is Seeking Candidates for the Head Women's Track & Field Coaching Position

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 8, 2023

Williams College invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Head Coach of Women's Track and Field.

28 Students Wrote Poems Right on the Spot

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 8, 2023

“I write as one who walks on the surface of a frozen river beginning to melt.”

Ephs Dominate in Opening Weekend

By West Massachusetts News Reports | Mar 8, 2023

The Williams College Ephs opened their spring campaign against Wesleyan on Saturday morning followed by a non-conference matchup against St. Michael's on Sunday afternoon.