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MCLA to Host Two Graduate Program Information Sessions

Potential students will have the opportunity to meet with faculty and staff to learn more about how to continue education in three of MCLA's programs that are designed to support the rising workforce needs here in the Berkshires and beyond.

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MCLA Announces 2024 Commencement Speaker and Honorees

The keynote speaker at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 125th commencement exercises will be Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians.

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MCLA Professor Releases Book On African Concept of Justice: 'Ubuntu'

The book was published by Leuven University Press earlier this month.

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MCLA Physics Department Launches Speaker Series with Recent Grant Award

The talk will take place in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) 121 on Wednesday, February 21 at 5 p.m. with a reception in the CSI atrium at 4 p.m.

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MCLA Announces Music, Gallery and Theater Performances for Winter, Spring Semester

The first exhibition of 2024 will examine the histories of ecology and migration.

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MCLA Receives American Institute of Physics Grant

Over the next two years, this funding will advance the College's efforts to increase its African American physics student enrollment, increase African American students' sense of department belonging, and introduce systemic changes to the physics bachelor of arts degree program to ensure positive outcomes for the department's African American students.

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MCLA Kicks off 2024 Green Living Seminar

Presentations occur every Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation (FCSI) Room 121.

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MCLA, Habitat for Humanity Partner Offer Free Tax Assistance

MCLA will offer in-person, drop-off, and virtual tax assistance to qualified taxpayers beginning Feb.12.

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MCLA Professor's Research Featured in Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023

Over a 10-year span, the MINERvA detector recorded the interactions of neutrinos and antineutrinos, the antimatter partners of the neutrino.

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MCLA Hosts Tour, Information Session for Saint Rose Students

The The College of Saint Rose announced on Friday, Dec. 24 it will close after the Spring 2024 semester.

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MCLA to Host Information Session for Graduate Programs

Prospective students can meet with faculty and staff to learn more about continuing education in three of MCLA's programs that are designed to support the rising workforce needs both in the Berkshires and beyond.

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MCLA to Host Community Panel 'How to Speak About Peace'

The discussion will start at 7 p.m. in Murdock Hall Room 218.

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MCLA Receives Grant to Fund Mental Health Support

Over the next three years, this funding will launch the MCLA Cares Project, an initiative to build campus-wide infrastructure to support student mental health.

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MCLA Hosts Celebration of Life for Steve Green

Green, a community leader, passed away in September of 2023.

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MCLA Theatre Program, MOSAIC Presents: Fornés Festival

The festival will kick off on Nov. 17 at 3 p.m. with a keynote address by MCLA Theatre Program Associate Professor Laura Standley and Theatre and Arts Management Georgia Dedolph 24', in Murdock Hall Room 218.

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MCLA to Host Fall Open House for Prospective Students

This event allows those interested in attending the College an opportunity to meet MCLA students, faculty, and staff and includes two morning sessions, followed by lunch, a resource fair, and a campus tour.

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MCLA Alumni Create Bence Scholarships for Student Interns

Named the Robert Bence Scholarship Fund in honor of the political science professor emeritus, the fund was announced at a small gathering of history and political science alumni and Bence on Oct. 21.

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MCLA Alumni Association Recognizes Six Outstanding Members

Michael Obasohan, chair of the nominating committee, said it had been difficult to select just six people and that it took the committee two days.

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MCLA Receives Grant for New Equipment From Mass Life Sciences Center

Over the next two years, this grant will fund the purchase of essential equipment for the College's biology and chemistry programs. MCLA was previously awarded $253,542 from MLSC in 2022 to support its equipment needs.

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UMass Amherst Stonewall Center Director to Give MCLA Lavender Lecture

In their talk, “The Changing Nature of Gender in the 21st Century," Beemyn will discuss how the last decade has seen a generational shift in how gender is lived and viewed.

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MCLA to Host Information Session for Graduate Programs at BIC

A virtual session will follow on Dec. 5 at noon.

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Supreme Court Expert to Give MCLA Public Policy Lecture

Tyler is the Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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MCLA to Host Fall Open House Events for Prospective Students

Fall Open House events will take place on Oct. 14, and Nov. 4 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Amsler Campus Center. At these open houses, prospective students will have an opportunity to meet MCLA students, faculty, and staff.

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MCLA's Education Department Offers MTEL Preparation Workshops

The workshops will be held in an online, synchronous format, with two sessions each day.

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Gallery 51 to Host Opening Reception for 'Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature'

The reception will be accompanied by a panel discussion.