BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
After the recent election of Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, concerns over the future of the Amazon rainforest have emerged among environmentalists and indigenous communities. According to National Geographic, Bolsonaro has threatened to roll back protections of the Amazon rainforest, leaving it vulnerable to exploitation.
BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
Community members spotted a goose with an arrow in its body on Lower Lake on Friday, Oct. 19. Reports state that the arrow pierced all the way through the goose’s body. Many students saw the injured goose and both Campus Police and the South Hadley Police Department were contacted.
BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
Planned Parenthood has recently selected Dr. Leana Wen, a former emergency room doctor and current health commissioner for Baltimore, as their next president. Wen will assume the position with experience in patient and community activism, as well as hands-on medical experience. She will be the first physician to accept the role in over 50 years, according to the New York Times.
BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
A new study discovered that an underwater heat wave two years ago resulted in the death of one-third of the Great Barrier Reef, according to The New York Times. Though the Reef is a physical and sedentary piece of the Australian underwater landscape, it is a living and vibrant collection of coral and other organisms.
BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
A new study published in the Scientific Journal estimates that the total area of the so-called “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is anywhere from four to 16 times as large as originally thought, according to The New York Times. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the world’s largest floating “junkyard” of trash, where plastics and other objects accumulate in mass quantities.
For National Women’s History Month, the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections are showing an exhibit on female faculty in the sciences, from Lydia Shattuck, class of 1851, to Cornelia Clapp, class of 1871.
Jean E. Sammet, class of 1948, was an American computer scientist who was well-known for creating FORMAC, which stands for FORmula MAnipulation Compiler, the first computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas.
BY CHEYENNE ELLIS ’21
For National Women’s History Month, the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections are showing an exhibit on female faculty in the sciences, from Lydia Shattuck, class of 1851, to Cornelia Clapp, class of 1871.
Dr. Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901-1963), class of 1922, was an accomplished American pathologist, known for first recognizing cystic fibrosis as a disease and creating a test to help diagnose it.
