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Marathon Running
November 28, 2022

In September, MCLA adjunct professor John Fries completed the Berlin Marathon - one of the largest races in the world. Fries works in the College's Business Department and also serves as a Career Law Clerk for a federal court in Connecticut.

South Africa Travel Course
October 31, 2022

MCLA students and faculty are gearing up for another year of travel courses and studying abroad.

Sienna Paulsen with Bird
October 4, 2022

While some recent college graduates move home, apply for jobs or continue their education, MCLA alumnus Sienna Paulsen '21 flew south for the birds.

Darsa Donelan spends time with research students studying magnetic storms from Jupiter and the Sun, in the Gustavus Observatory, and with Space Science Ambassadors that they trained.
October 4, 2022

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has announced MCLA Alum Darsa Donelan ‘09 as the Doc Brown Futures Award recipient.

A junco with a radio tag banded during an environmental science class at MCLA. The tags that are detected by the MOTUS receiving stations look very similar to this.
Photo provided by Dan Schustack.
September 21, 2022

The MCLA Environmental Studies Department was awarded $250,000 this summer through the Skills Capital Grant Program under the Baker-Polito Administration to benefit vocational and technical training programs.

September 19, 2022

During a summer as a research fellow at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Victoria Papa, Ph.D., found herself immersed in the archives of modernist authors.

Brett Westbrook and two others.
August 29, 2022

MCLA alum and Berkshire County Head Start Executive Director Brett Westbrook was selected to be one of the 2022 Commonwealth Heroines by the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women last month.

Group of VITA students
August 29, 2022

Through MCLA’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in partnership with Habitat for Humanity and the IRS, Business Administration students have saved residents upwards of $250,000 in returns this year. The program offers free tax preparation services to local residents in need.

July 29, 2022

Earlier this week MCLA hosted Mark Shuldiner — a keyboardist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2013 — so that he could practice for his concerto at Staunton Music Festival. Shuldiner and his financé Molly Netter came to North Adams for her performance in the Bang on a Can Festival at MASS MoCA.

June 22, 2022

Odiase Williamson '22 has been chosen as MCLA's "29 Who Shine" Award recipient, given annually by the Massachusetts Department of Education to outstanding students from colleges across the Commonwealth.