Amongst several post-college opportunities out there, Otema Stephanie Adu ’09 decided to pursue a Master’s Program in chemical engineering at Aalborg University in Esberg, Denmark. The MH News interviewed this budding chemical engineer on life, work and future aspirations. <

On April 14th, an earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hit the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province in northwest China. Two Mount Holyoke students are running an on-campus initiative to gather donations for the quake victims.

Just eight years after adopting the euro, Greece has become a trouble spot for the stability of the currency. The country has fallen into a recent economic downslide that threatens its national credibility and the economic integration of the European Union. According to a recent article in The Economist, Greece’s dire economic position has called for debatable measures both nationally and in the euro zone.

Sweat dripped down my brow as I stared straight ahead at the bespectacled man in a flowing powder blue tunic. He was standing on an elevated platform, his hands raised in a salute. Beside him, the Nigerian flag flapped in the early harmattan afternoon. The school band was beating out a popular military composition: the nameless tune I had marched to since my kindergarten years.

Since their arrival in the United States, many immigrants have been able to send back money and gifts to relatives in their home countries. But this year, in the aftermath of the recession, many have started asking for money from relatives at home. For these immigrants, the prospects of wiring money back to families have grown slim.

In Lukodi, a small community north of Gulu in Uganda, hope resonates again after twenty-three years of war, through the Christian organization Child Voice International. In 2007, the Lukodi Child Center was established by the organization to reintegrate and empower child victims of the civil war in Uganda, a war that has ravished scores of communities since the 1990s.

Swish! Click! Flash! Smile, and prepare yourself for more flashes. As the cameras go off, you become a celebrity, paparazzi-chased and in high demand for photo shoots by everyone. The deal is that you are not a real celebrity; you are wearing ingenuity.

The atmosphere that clad the ever-revolving Nigerian fashion scene is contagious.

You drag them all over the world, across the Pacific, trans-Atlantic and literally into dorm rooms. They litter the hallways, take up whole U-Haul trucks, sometimes are precociously wedged and pulled across the campus in bright orange moving carts. Yes, it is that time of the year again: it’s back to school!

This year, on the Mount Holyoke campus, it was a much more animated scenario as the college welcomed its largest class of 180 international students for the fall session of 2009.

Have you ever heard of the United States of Africa? Well, this phrase stands as a bedrock of the African Union (AU), which was formed on July 9, 2002. However the idea of a United States of Africa did not begin with the AU; it started decades ago with the creation of the now disbanded Organization of African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963.

Rated a 2007 DesignShare honors award recipient and a 2008 Inhabitat number one green architecture project, the School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang, Singapore beams like an opal in its landscape. This magnificent work of extreme architecture is situated in the valley of the 200-hectare land mass of the Nanyang Technological Institute campus.