• » Elizabeth Conlisk, professor of public health
• » Cynthia Gill, associate professor of physiology
• » Christopher D. Jarvis, associate professor of cell biology
• » Charles Ross, assistant professor of evolutionary biology
• » Jason Tor, associate professor of microbiology

• » The Potential Benefits of Coconut Oil: a Clinical Study of the Effects of Medium Chain Triglycerides on Cholesterol and Satiety
• » Traditional Chinese Medicine in a Modern Biomedical Context: Ganodyrma lucidum and its Polysaccharide Derivatives as Immunomodulators
• » HIV Prevalence in Nicaragua: A Mixed-Method Analysis of the Perspectives of Physicians, Advocacy Groups, and International Organizations
• » Sex Differences in Muscle Response After Forced Eccentric Exercise
• » In My Genes
• » Beyond Barriers: Power, Risk, and HIV Prevention
• » Nutrition and Type II Diabetes in the White Mountain Apache

• » Advanced Skeletal Biology
• » Biochemistry
• » The Biology and Sociology of Sports
• » Bodies, Guts, and Bones: A Biocultural Approach to Health
• » Calculus
• » Contemporary Issues in International Nutrition
• » The Epidemiology of Women’s Health
• » General Chemistry
• » Healing: Western and Alternative Medicine
• » Healthy Hormones and Modern Ills
• » Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Reproduction and Infant Development
• » Human Biological Variation
• » Human Biology: Selected Topics in Medicine
• » Human Gene Therapy
• » Human Physiology
• » Immunology
• » Integrative Seminar in Environmental and Health Education

• » The Making of the Modern Body
• » Migration and Health
• » Natural History of Infectious Diseases
• » Organic Chemistry
• » Physics
• » Plants and Human Health
• » Race, Science, and Disease in Tropical America
• » The Social Determinants of Health
• » Women’s Bodies, Women’s Lives: Biocultural Dialogues of Women’s Health in America

Cole Science Center
Cole Science Center at Hampshire College boasts some of the most up to date laboratories at any liberal arts college nationwide. Hampshire’s open lab policy makes these facilities available to Natural Science students at all levels. First-year classes regularly use our chemistry, physiology, and osteology laboratories, gaining hands-on experience and learning basic experimental procedures, while Natural Science concentrators at the Division II and III levels design their own original research experiments in such fields as nutrition or genetics.

Students have full access to the labs outside of classroom hours in order to perform and analyze their experiments, and are given appropriate training in the use of complex and sophisticated equipment encountered elsewhere only at the graduate and post-grad level.

Hampshire’s laboratory equipment includes a laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, an inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometer, myographic equipment, molecular biology and genetics instruments, a gel electrophoresis and documentation system, polymerase chain reaction instruments for immunology research, and a bone densitometer.

Five College Certificate Program in Culture, Health, and Science
The Five College Certificate Program in Culture, Health, and Science allows students an opportunity to explore human health, disease, and healing from an interdisciplinary perspective. The study of human health requires theoretical frameworks and research strategies that integrate physical and socio-cultural aspects of human experience. Students in the program study health and disease by linking the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Students interested in pursuing health careers will benefit from interdisciplinary programs in sociomedical sciences and medical humanities. The best health practitioners, researchers, and policy analysts will understand how behavior influences disease distribution and how biomedical categories change across time and culture. They will understand how to communicate research results to audiences of policy makers and to the general public.

Health Careers Advising Center
Hampshire’s on-campus Health Careers Advising Center is available to help interested students and graduates learn about various health-related professions, evaluate career goals, and, ultimately, gain admission to professional schools when appropriate. The center also provides standardized test preparation, as well as assistance in obtaining clinical and research experiences.