Faculty

Professor Hachiyanagi charged with attempted murder, assault against fellow faculty member

Mount Holyoke Professor of Art and Chair of Art Studio Rie Hachiyanagi has been charged with multiple counts, including attempted murder, after an alleged attack on another member of Mount Holyoke’s faculty.

Professor authors groundbreaking study on peer review

A study on the peer review process titled “Research Culture: Co-Reviewing and Ghostwriting by Early-Career Researchers in the Peer Review of Manuscripts,” was recently published in eLife Journal. Rebeccah Lijek, an assistant professor of biology at Mount Holyoke was a senior author on the story.

Students demand diversity in history department

Students demand diversity in history department

BY AVA BLUM-CARR ’21

On the morning of Feb. 12, students and faculty were met with an unfamiliar sight in Skinner Hall. The building’s bulletin boards had been covered up with a series of posters, all calling for greater diversity within Mount Holyoke’s history department. 

The two party consent law and you: Recording professors

The two party consent law and you: Recording professors

BY MADELINE SKRAK '18 

The occasional student might covertly record a class lecture, but they may not realize that activity is illegal in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which has one of the most restrictive recording laws in the United States.