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Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society.

Moving up two places from last year, Harvey Mudd College is ranked No. 8 among national liberal arts colleges in the Bes...
09/22/2026

Moving up two places from last year, Harvey Mudd College is ranked No. 8 among national liberal arts colleges in the Best Colleges 2027 list from U.S. News and World Report. The rankings are based on a range of factors, including graduation and retention rates, graduate outcomes, peer assessment, financial resources, faculty resources, standardized test scores and research citations.

The College also ranked No. 7 for Top Private Colleges and tied for No. 7 for Most Innovative Schools. Harvey Mudd's undergraduate engineering program tied for No. 2 among non-doctorate-granting institutions and was recognized in the top 10 for four different specialities.

Visit our news page for all of our rankings at https://uqr.to/usnr27.

09/22/2026

In this new video series, Harvey Mudd College president Harriet Nembhard shares stories of the exciting ways our community is bringing its collective vision of STEM for a Better World to life and how The Campaign for Harvey Mudd College is supporting that work. In this inaugural episode, President Nembhard outlines our key priorities and explain why this campaign is the College's answer to addressing the challenges facing society. Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel at https://uqr.to/MMNTMS01E01.

Meet people and learn something new when you step into the “Mahjong and Its Cultural Forms” exhibition at Sprague Galler...
09/19/2026

Meet people and learn something new when you step into the “Mahjong and Its Cultural Forms” exhibition at Sprague Gallery! From Sept. 14 to Nov. 20, immerse yourself in the vibrant history, art and community care behind this beloved game. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or want to learn the basics, there’s a seat at the table for you.

Events throughout the exhibition will include larger-than-life game tiles, food, a live DJ, community workshops and more. Check out the full event lineup and details at HMC Arts. https://uqr.to/hmc-mahjong.

Harvey Mudd College mathematics professor and McGregor-Girand Chair in STEM Equity Innovation and Research Darryl Yong h...
09/19/2026

Harvey Mudd College mathematics professor and McGregor-Girand Chair in STEM Equity Innovation and Research Darryl Yong has been appointed executive director of Math for America Los Angeles.

“I’ve been so inspired by the math and computer science teachers supported by our program and all the amazing work they do to bring about more equitable and ambitious student learning outcomes,” Yong says. “I genuinely look forward to learning from and fellowshipping with this warm and caring community of teacher-leaders.”

Under Yong’s directorship this coming year, the organization plans to expand its fellowship program to more schools and build infrastructure for data-gathering and research to inform public education policy. Read more on our news page at https://uqr.to/yong-mfala.

Harvey Mudd College's 2024 Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow Isabel Beavers has an upcoming solo exhibition at Pitzer Coll...
09/17/2026

Harvey Mudd College's 2024 Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow Isabel Beavers has an upcoming solo exhibition at Pitzer College Art Galleries. “Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams," examines material, spiritual and ecological dimensions of AI and other forms of mega-computing. The opening reception is Saturday, Sept. 19, at 5 p.m. at Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College Broad Center. The show will also feature a digital film, a custom-coded water fountain, a series of light sculptures and prints on stainless steel. More information can be found on Pitzer College's event page https://uqr.to/ibhh-pcag.

09/15/2026

Alumna and faculty member, Marissa Lee Sinopoli ’18 shares how donor support impacts students as they bring their projects to life.

Help build a strong foundation that empowers the next generation of Mudders and their ambitious projects.

Spark the next discovery at https://www.givecampus.com/s/if9v95 🔬✨

Another year, another Crib Race. The DSA Muchachos’ baby-themed obstacle course is a cherished tradition where, in a ser...
09/14/2026

Another year, another Crib Race. The DSA Muchachos’ baby-themed obstacle course is a cherished tradition where, in a series of silly stages, teams must deliver a "baby" across the finish line. Mudders cheered each other on as teams rattled and rolled for a chance at first place. Photos by Daniel Liu ’29.

Harvey Mudd College student clubs Society for the Advancement of Latinx Students At Mudd (SALSA-Mudd) and First Generat...
09/12/2026

Harvey Mudd College student clubs Society for the Advancement of Latinx Students At Mudd (SALSA-Mudd) and First Generation Low-Income Students at Mudd (FLISHMC) held their first carne asada of the academic year. Mudders met at Garrett House to share food, listen to music, sing karaoke and get their faces painted. Student club events like these support the thriving community at HMC. Photos by Lindsey Sands ’27.

09/11/2026

Meet this year's Dr. Sydell Perlmutter Gold Fusion Fellow Zaara Bhatia, a rising senior at Harvey Mudd College studying Physics and Computer Science. This summer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Zaara has been working on lithium isotope separation.

This fellowship was made possible by a generous contribution from Dr. Ted Gold in memory of his wife Sydell -- a true pioneer for women in math and science. We are profoundly grateful to Ted for this opportunity to honor her legacy through this fellowship!

Mudders gathered outside Platt last week for the annual Fall Club Fair. Representatives from clubs like Mudd Tabletop Ga...
09/09/2026

Mudders gathered outside Platt last week for the annual Fall Club Fair. Representatives from clubs like Mudd Tabletop Games, the Muddraker, Adaptive Design at Mudd, Mudd Amateur Rocketry Club and more showed up to entice their classmates to join and participate in all that student clubs have to offer. Photos by Max Buchanan ’27 and Daniel Liu ’29.

Last week, Harvey Mudd College’s community met in Galileo Hall to kick off the 2026-2027 academic year with Convocation....
09/09/2026

Last week, Harvey Mudd College’s community met in Galileo Hall to kick off the 2026-2027 academic year with Convocation.

Speakers included Harvey Mudd President Harriet Nembhard, Dean of Faculty Karl Haushalter and mathematics professor Francis Su. A string quartet led by HMC biology professor Danae Schulz performed “Alla danza tedesca” from Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13, Op. 130. Two Mudders were recognized for their accomplishments: Rachel Garton ’29 was awarded the Platt Prize, and Jackson Giumarra ’29 was awarded the First-Year Writing Prize for his paper “The New(man) Sublime: Barnett Newman's Transformation of the Sublime Experience.”

Convocation ended with the College's annual “tunnel of applause,” where faculty and staff applaud first years on beginning their college careers.

Harvey Mudd College’s Department of Engineering has announced a major equipment and software gift-in-kind from Keysight ...
09/07/2026

Harvey Mudd College’s Department of Engineering has announced a major equipment and software gift-in-kind from Keysight Technologies. The generous contribution, valued at approximately $200,000, consists of industry-grade oscilloscopes, advanced power supplies and specialized design and simulation software that will fundamentally upgrade the College’s engineering laboratories. Read more about this promising partnership on our news page. https://uqr.to/ks-hmc.

09/04/2026

The spring/summer issue of Mudd Magazine is LIVE!

Celebrating Harvey Mudd’s strategic commitment to entrepreneurship, this issue spotlights alumni founders, student AI innovators, Mudders driving the NASA Artemis II, and the latest in faculty research, Clinic projects and campus news. Dive in at https://uqr.to/muddmag. w

Harvey Mudd College computer science professor George Montañez was awarded the Best Oral Presentation honor in the Trust...
09/04/2026

Harvey Mudd College computer science professor George Montañez was awarded the Best Oral Presentation honor in the Trustworthy and Explainable AI session at the 2026 International Conference on Advance Machine Learning and Data Science in Osaka, Japan. Montañez’s presentation highlighted real-world applications of the framework, including quantifying the information cost of game-rule knowledge in systems and evaluating information constraints in large language models. https://uqr.to/gmai26.

Have you heard? Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 3 nationally in TIME magazine's inaugural America's Best Colleges of 2026...
09/01/2026

Have you heard? Harvey Mudd College ranked No. 3 nationally in TIME magazine's inaugural America's Best Colleges of 2026–2027. The article highlights the College's distinctive approach to STEM education, noting that HMC combines rigorous study in engineering, science and mathematics with the humanities, social sciences and the arts to prepare students to understand the impact of their work on society. https://uqr.to/hmct3.

Welcome to the first day of your Harvey Mudd College career, Class of 2030! Today, the campus comes alive after a quiet ...
08/31/2026

Welcome to the first day of your Harvey Mudd College career, Class of 2030! Today, the campus comes alive after a quiet summer break. How do you plan on spending your first day of the 2026–2027 academic year?

Harvey Mudd College’s Class of 2030 is officially moved in! This week, we’ve introduced first years to our thriving comm...
08/28/2026

Harvey Mudd College’s Class of 2030 is officially moved in! This week, we’ve introduced first years to our thriving community through orientation sessions like an introduction to Academic Affairs, community conversations and signing the College’s Honor Code. Welcome to Harvey Mudd, Class of 2030!

Your support helps lay the strong foundation needed to build extraordinary futures for our students. Make a gift by visi...
08/26/2026

Your support helps lay the strong foundation needed to build extraordinary futures for our students. Make a gift by visiting https://www.givecampus.com/s/qafnva. 🔬✨

We are less than a week away from welcoming the Class of 2030 onto Harvey Mudd's campus! Our 2026 New Student Orientatio...
08/21/2026

We are less than a week away from welcoming the Class of 2030 onto Harvey Mudd's campus! Our 2026 New Student Orientation starts with move-in on Thursday, Aug. 27, and lasts throughout the weekend with programs and activities like signing the honor code, mentor group time, a trip to Knott's Berry Farm, core skills diagnostic and so much more. For a full schedule, visit our website at https://uqr.to/hmc-nso26.

What can years of preparation and a community that looks out for one another mean when disaster strikes? Harvey Mudd Col...
08/19/2026

What can years of preparation and a community that looks out for one another mean when disaster strikes? Harvey Mudd College alumna Mala Arthur ’82 knows firsthand.

When the Eaton Fire swept through the San Gabriel Valley in January 2025, Arthur's Pasadena Glen home and her Altadena rental property both survived. For years, she had helped her neighbors prepare for wildfire through training, evacuation drills, workshops and fire-prevention efforts.

Read more about Arthur in last year's spring/summer edition of "Mudd Magazine," where she shares what happened, what her community learned and why she continues preparing for what comes next. https://uqr.to/mala-mm25.

Harvey Mudd College chemistry professor David Vosburg is using vanilla beans and horseradish to reduce the reliance on h...
08/17/2026

Harvey Mudd College chemistry professor David Vosburg is using vanilla beans and horseradish to reduce the reliance on highly toxic solvents in the organic chemistry lab curriculum. In an article published in the journal “Sustainability & Circularity NOW,” Vosburg offers a comprehensive blueprint for organic chemistry laboratory instructors to create lab courses that are both scientifically rigorous and environmentally sustainable. Read more about these highly innovative, eco-friendly chemical reactions that are being developed or adapted for Harvey Mudd's curriculum and shared with educators around the world on our news page at https://uqr.to/vosburg-gca.

Harvey Mudd has announced the launch of a new joint major in mathematics and climate. Developed by the Department of Mat...
08/05/2026

Harvey Mudd has announced the launch of a new joint major in mathematics and climate. Developed by the Department of Mathematics in collaboration with the College's Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment, the interdisciplinary program aims to equip the next generation of STEM leaders with the mathematical fluency required to model, analyze and address the complexities of a changing planet. By blending rigorous mathematical theory with comprehensive climate science, the joint major will train students to translate complex data into actionable environmental solutions. Read more about the program's design on our news page. https://uqr.to/jm-cm.

Harvey Mudd College engineering professor Leah Mendelson has been named director of the makerspace. Mendelson has been a...
07/27/2026

Harvey Mudd College engineering professor Leah Mendelson has been named director of the makerspace. Mendelson has been a longtime friend and fan of the makerspace, believing it helps students be holistic, creative people, which both enriches life on campus and fosters this mindset in their long-term futures. Read about Mendelson's goals for the 8,000-square-foot hub of student creativity as well as what she's looking forward to during her tenure. https://uqr.to/lm-mkr.

Harvey Mudd College physics professor Eduardo Ibarra García Padilla and physics colleagues have developed a new theory t...
07/23/2026

Harvey Mudd College physics professor Eduardo Ibarra García Padilla and physics colleagues have developed a new theory that helps explain how trions—tiny quantum structures made up of three interacting particles—form and arrange themselves into distinctive checkerboard patterns. For Ibarra García Padilla, the work reflects the kind of collaborative, theory-driven physics research that connects Harvey Mudd faculty to questions at the frontiers of modern science. Learn how the team worked to discover this new theory on our news page at https://uqr.to/eigp-nt.

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