HMC chemistry professor Spencer D. Brucks has been awarded a Petroleum Research Fund grant from the American Chemical Society to support his research group's project studying the impact of stereochemistry on polymer degradation. Read more at uqr.to/brucks-acsg.

Last week, HMC welcomed Federico Ardila-Mantilla as a speaker in the Michael E. Moody Lecture Series. Ardila-Mantilla is a mathematician & musician whose research investigates objects in algebra, geometry, topology & applications by understanding their underlying combinatorial structure. (1/2).

Our Team's Datathon from last Spring made it into the school magazine. magazine.hmc.edu/spring-summe...

HMC architecture prof. Jia Yi Gu & her design studio received top honors in the Small Lots, Big Impacts competition for their design project "Households." The design demonstrates an innovative approach to residential architecture by providing a compelling vision for flexible living uqr.to/gu-arch.

Hey, it's me :) NSF Grant Funds Geometric Combinatorics Research at @hmc.edu ! #MathSky www.hmc.edu/about/2025/0...

Join us next week at the Annenberg Leadership Forum where Harvey Mudd President's Scholars will be presenting a Lunch and Learn workshop focused on advances toward the UN's Sustainable Development Goal No. 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions. Learn more at uqr.to/hmc-alf.

Notice anything special about today's date, 9/16/25? Each number is a perfect square, & the numbers' consecutive square roots are an example of a Pythagorean triple: 3, 4, 5. Today is likely also the first—and last—time you'll see this Pythagorean triple date, as it only happens once every century.

The HMC team IdealPV (Katie Cheng ’28, Amy Li ’28, Felix Peng ’28 and Anika Sharma ’28) has won the DOE's Prize for Solar Safety Innovation. Read more about innovative business plan to commercialize a patented solar technology to address hotspot formation by visiting our news page. uqr.to/hmc-doep.

HMC's Biology Dept. & the Hixon Center now offer a new joint major in bio & climate for Mudders interested in pursuing studies in both disciplines. The new major will develop computational & systems thinking literacy & student knowledge about the impact of their work on society. uqr.to/bio-climate.

We are just over a week away from the SENCER West Coast Regional Conference on undergraduate climate education. HMC's Hixon Center co-organized the conference which features a keynote presentation, oral & poster presentations & a facilitated climate futures activity. Learn more at uqr.to/sencer25.

Helping to put together a career panel on data science and human health ... Who's in this space?

Join us 9/6 to celebrate the opening of TforX: A Chronoscape. Created by the artist duo Nolan Windham & Jasper Eliot, TforX treats video as a multidimensional, spacetime hypervolume that is scanned through arbitrary positions & orientations using custom software. uqr.to/sprague-tfx.

Look who’s reading Mudd Magazine. Are you? uqr.to/muddmag.

HMC's Office of Career Services was featured in @insidehighered.com for a pilot program that paired current students with alumni for a summer job-shadow opportunity & aimed to increase career exploration for first-gen Mudders participating in the Summer Institute program. Read more at uqr.to/ocs-js.

The Mudd Amateur Rocketry Club (MARC) launched its most successful rocket to date, earning them a 3rd place spot on the Friends of Amateur Rocketry leaderboard in CA's Mojave Desert. Read more about this milestone in MARC's journey toward competitive rocketry excellence at uqr.to/hmc-MARC.

@hmc.edu has implemented a new externship program, that brings professional opportunities to the students. Ashley Mowreader, reporter for @insidehighered.com, shares how first-gen students are getting real world career experience in a way that works for them.

Yesterday, the HMC community met in Galileo Hall for the College's 2025 Convocation. Two Mudders were recognized for their accomplishments: Pranay Gupta ’28 was awarded the Platt Prize, and Leah Uriarte ’28 was awarded the First-Year Writing Prize. (1/2).

If you're in the Los Ángeles area, join us at @hmc.edu for this year's Moody Lecture on September 16! This year's speaker is my dear friend and mentor, Federico Ardila-Mantilla. For more information: www.hmc.edu/mathematics/... #mathsky

We're hiring in Operations Research. Join us. Tell a friend.

Surprising no one who's had the pleasure of eating a meal at HMC's dining facilities, “The Princeton Review" ranks the College No. 7 on its list of Best Campus Food. Thank you and congratulations to HMC Dining Services staff, who keep the HMC community coming back for seconds. uqr.to/hmc-bestfood.

Welcome to campus, first years and transfer students! Today kicks off a full weekend of new student orientation events where HMC faculty, staff and student leaders will help the incoming class of 2029 get situated to life at Mudd.

Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

"The Princeton Review" has named HMC one of the country's top undergraduate institutions. HMC is included in "The Best 391 Colleges for 2026" rankings for Most Accessible Professors, Top 20 Best Career Placement, Best Quality of Life and more! uqr.to/hmc-pr.

HMC welcomes Robert Sanchez (climate & math), Harrison Li (math) & Eduardo Ibarra García Padilla (physics) to the faculty this fall. They join 116 peers charged with educating & inspiring Mudders to become passionate problem solvers who understand their work's impact on society. uqr.to/new-faculty.

We are hiring in Operations Research at @hmc.edu! If you or someone you know is on the job market, please consider applying: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

🔭 New AAS Journal Author Series Video! Daniel Tamayo (‪@hmc.edu‬) & Samuel Hadden (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) dive into their research on mean motion resonances & discuss what’s next now that their article is published. #ExploreAstronomy #TheGoodStuff 📺 youtu.be/UD6SSqrNZe0

HMC chem prof. Maduka Ogba coauthored two papers w/ students on comprehensive research in green chem & catalyst design & secured a $70k grant from @acs.org. Ogba says HMC students are "eager to get their hands dirty & bring fresh ideas that [pushes] the research in new directions." uqr.to/ogba-acsp.

Calling all #ClimateExperts, teacher-scholars from all disciplines & community partners! HMC's Hixon Center is co-organizing the #SENCER conference on undergrad #ClimateEducation which will feature keynote, oral and poster presentations & a facilitated #ClimateFutures activity. uqr.to/sencer25.

Today was our last day of our research experience and I am extremely proud of my summer research students @hmc.edu! Group one (Tito Cuchilla ‘26, Joseph Hound @claremontgraduateu.bsky.social, Cole Plepel ‘27, Louis Ye ‘27) Group two (Cameron Ake ‘28, Spencer Lewis ‘28, Amanda Louie ‘28)

HMC mathematics professor Art Benjamin has been named the 2025-2026 @momath.bsky.social Visiting Professor for Public Outreach. Benjamin will bring his talents for presenting mathematics in exciting ways to the yearlong appointment. uqr.to/art-momath.

New paper on the arXiv!

"We'd be naive to think that students aren't using AI, so let's help them figure out how best to use it in a way that celebrates their ideas [...]." HMC VP of Admission and Financial Aid Thyra Briggs shares her thoughts in @forbes.com on the use of AI for college essay writing. uqr.to/briggs-forbes.

Interested in climate ed? Harvey Mudd College is hosting a 1.5 day conference Sept 18-19. We invite presentations describing any form of undergraduate climate education in any discipline, on any topic related to climate change. [the deadline can be flexible just ask] www.hmc.edu/hixon-center...

HMC engineering professor and Makerspace Director Matthew Spencer was featured on "The Academic Minute." Listen now as Spencer shares his thoughts on how drones can help with wildfire detection and suppression. uqr.to/ms-tam.

New preprint announcement! This is my FIRST paper with @hmc.edu students and a @claremontgraduateu.bsky.social grad student! Very proud of this paper and the students who worked with me this summer. “Equivariant volumes of symmetric edge polytopes” arxiv.org/abs/2507.18846

HMC physics prof. Jason Gallicchio has co-authored a paper that provides updates on the Deep Space Quantum Link and how the technology required to execute it exists today. The space-mission concept is aimed at exploring the interplay between general relativity and quantum mechanics. uqr.to/dsql-jg.

Team members of HMC's Innovation Accelerator Laboratory for Data Science and Social Impact (DSSI) held a one-day datathon that challenged students to explore and visualize data while learning from experts. uqr.to/dssi-dt. (1/2).

Earlier this year, HMC student clubs Code the Change and Mudd Exploring Careers in Tech (ECT) sponsored a trip for students to attend the SoCal AI Responsibility Summit at UCLA. (1/2).

“STEM & Social Impact: Climate Change” @hmc.edu 🌎 theconversation.com/california-w...

Watch HMC mathematics professor Talithia Williams on @bigthink.com as she explains the key to understanding math outside the classroom by appreciating how beautiful it really is. uqr.to/tw-bt.

HMC honors extraordinary Clinic Program sponsors committed to investing in Mudders and the future of STEM by awarding them Clinic Milestone Awards. Our Clinic Program engages Mudders in solutions of real-world, technical problems for industrial clients. Learn more on our news page. uqr.to/hmc-cma.

Spark the weekend conversation with these chemistry facts about firework colors: Sodium produces yellow & gold, barium creates green, copper compounds produce blue, strontium salts produce red, titanium metals make silver and magnesium increases the overall brilliance & brightness.

Hal Van Ryswyk, John Stauffer Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of this year's Mudd Prize, which recognizes outstanding service contributions of faculty and staff of the College. Read more on our news page. uqr.to/hmc-hvr.

I made a 3 channel video installation about a research vessel that flips from horizontal to vertical to become a live-in research buoy. It's at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla until the end of August. www.rachelmayeri.com

Have you ever made something from scratch? In the HMC Machine Shop, it’s not just possible, it's expected. Mudders turn their ideas into physical prototypes by working with machine shop Manager Drew Price & his team of student proctors, who are dedicated to safety & teaching machining practices.

@aceducation.bsky.social & the Carnegie Foundation have awarded HMC the new classification for "Research Colleges and Universities." This designation reinforces HMC's distinctive research program that provides opportunities for Mudders to engage in meaningful, leading-edge discovery. uqr.to/hmc-rcu.

Along the Hennepin Canal Trail. From Chicago enroute to Iowa City. @hmc.edu @bikede.bsky.social

What is your favorite shape & why? For HMC math prof @arvm.bsky.social it's a permutahedron, a symmetrical, convex polytope that exhibits many special properties. Read more about Vindas Meléndez's favorite shape & the key it holds to big mathematical mysteries on @sciam.bsky.social. uqr.to/arvm-sm.

Adrianne Baik ’27 made her @nytimes.com Crossword debut last week. Her puzzle included some grid-spanning answers whose clues covered a wide range of topics. Read about the creation of the puzzle at uqr.to/baik-nytc and share your favorite answer and clue.

Laney Goldman ’25 & Anna Rogers ’25 have been awarded fellowships through the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Program participants are seen as future experts who will contribute significantly to research, education and innovation in STEM fields. Read more at uqr.to/hmc-grf25.