Browsing Faculty Projects and Publications by Title
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Barbara Bosworth's Triptychs
(2016-02-15)This essay is a close study of the landscape triptychs of the past fifteen years by the renowned photographer Barbara Bosworth. Her three-part photographs are only one portion of her output, but the author became fascinated ... -
Building Research Data Services at Mount Holyoke College
(University of Massachusetts and New England Area Librarian e-Science Symposium., 2017-04-06)Objective: Mount Holyoke College ranks high among liberal arts colleges in faculty research activities and has just initiated a new program in Data Science. In this context, and given the recent growth in the use of very ... -
"Construction and Disruption: Building Communities of Practice, Queering Subject Liaisons"
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Cultivating a Mind of One's Own: Drawing on Critical Information Literacy and Liberal Education
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The Dinosaur Tracks of Dexter Marsh: Greenfield's Lost Museum, 1846-1853
(2013-01-14)This publication is the first biography of Dexter Marsh (1806-1853), a quarrier, stonemason and janitor of Greenfield whose short life culminated in the opening of his own museum of dinosaur tracks. From 1846 to 1853, ... -
Dr. James Deane of Greenfield: Edward Hitchcock's Rival Discoverer of Dinosaur Tracks
(2014-06-24)This is the first biography of Dr. James Deane (1801-1858) of Greenfield MA, a pioneer in the discovery and interpretation of the first dinosaur prints ever found. He conducted two careers simultaneously, one in medicine––he ... -
Field-based body temperatures reveal behavioral thermoregulation strategies of the Atlantic marsh fiddler crab Minuca pugnax
(biorxiv.org, 2020-07-04)Behavioral thermoregulation is an important defense against the negative impacts of climate change for ectotherms. In this study we examined the use of burrows by a common intertidal crab, Minuca pugnax, to control body ... -
History of Art at Mount Holyoke College, 1872-1914
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Infographic Pie Judging in a Science FYS
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Mount Holyoke Afire! 1896,1917, 1922
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A Pictorial History of Mount Holyoke 1900-1935: Asa Kinney's View Camera Photographs
(2017-02-23)This monograph reproduces and discusses 142 photographs of Mount Holyoke College from 1900 to 1935 by Asa S. Kinney (1873-1961). He was teacher of plant science and landscape design from 1898 to 1939, whose passion was a ... -
Planning for Data Curation in the Small Liberal Arts College Environment
(Sci-Tech News, 2011)Mount Holyoke College is in an unusual position among small colleges: as a top National Science Foundation (NSF) grant money recipient among liberal arts colleges, we also face the same responsibilities as larger institutions ... -
The Recovered History of Prospect Hill, 1879-1920: Goodnow Park, the Pepper Box and Lake Nonotuck
(2016-08-11)Goodnow Park, Lake Nonotuck, and the Pepper Box: These were once familiar places at Mount Holyoke College, but they have been utterly lost. Only one of the three, the Pepper Box, has literally disappeared, torn down in ... -
Roswell Field's Dinosaur Footprints, 1854-1880
(2013-07-15)Roswell Field (1804-1882), a farmer of Gill, Massachusetts, supplied sandstone dinosaur tracks and fossil fish from the Connecticut River Valley to scientists, collectors, and institutions, from 1854 to 1880. Like his ... -
The Two Careers of Henrietta Hooker (1851-1929)
(2019-04-19)Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker was one of several teachers of Mount Holyoke’s faculty who rose to prominence in the last quarter of the 19th century. Foremost among the teachers of science were Lydia Shattuck ’51 (1822-89), an ... -
Williston Hall, 1876-1917
(2017-06-09)This short illustrated essay tells the story of Williston Hall, the first building constructed wholly outside the walls of the gigantic Seminary Hall. Opened in 1876, it housed art and the natural sciences. A gallery of ...