Elizabeth Conlisk, associate professor of public health, is an epidemiologist with a Ph.D. in international health and nutrition from Cornell University.

Professor Conlisk has extensive public health experience at the local, state, federal, and international levels with previous appointments at the Instituto de Nutricion de Centro America y Panama and the Centers for Disease Control.

At the CDC, Conlisk worked primarily in the area of cancer control and prevention, including a breast and cervical cancer screening program for low-income women.

For the past eight years Conlisk has been working with Hampshire alum Miriam Cremer 87F, a gynecologist who founded a cervical cancer screening and research program in El Salvador. They co-teach a January term course in which students spend a week in El Salvador, helping local physicians provide screening and follow-up in rural communities. Read more >>

Eight Hampshire students and their professor Dula Amarasiriwardena, gather around a table in the Cole Science Center.

How can colleges help students better comprehend biology?

Tracking a cricket is currently an imprecise science. 

Traditionally, when one thinks of high-powered theoretical physicists working in pure research, large universities come to mind—not four-year colleges and universities.

Hampshire College has been awarded a $120,000 National Science Foundation grant for acquisition of a laser ablation chemistry system.

A center for academic research and scholarship related to science in Muslim societies has been established at Hampshire College.