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Lila Maher F24 Creates Impeccable Historical Fashions

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Jacory Martin F24 Took His Passion for Film Studies All the Way to Cannes

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Recent Grad Libby Harrity 23F on Fighting Back and Finding Community

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Latest News and Events

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Hampshire Professor Nathan McClain Receives MacDowell Fellowship

McClain is the author of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned, longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Scale. He teaches at Hampshire and in the Brooklyn Writers Foundry low-residency M.F.A. program and serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.

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Hampshire Launches New Virtual Campus Tour

A visit to Hampshire College is now just a click away — at any time and from anywhere. The new YouVisit virtual campus tour employs 360-degree interactive views of both indoor and outdoor spaces as well as welcoming, in-depth voiceovers, and gives an up-close look at our campus at their own pace and convenience.

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Community Analysis and Bee Guts: A Very Hampshire Collaboration Between Faculty and Students

Science professors Juliet Johnson and Jennifer VanWyk worked with each other and with a class conducting research on the gut health of bumblebees, vital pollinators that are sensitive to the effects of climate change.

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Hampshire Changemakers

Hampshire College prepares you comprehensively for the world. And the world looks to our graduates for leadership in hundreds of fields.

Lupita Nyong'o

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Oscar-winning actress of 12 Years a Slave, model, and writer

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Jon Krakauer

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Mountaineer and bestselling author of Under the Banner of Heaven

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Hampshire College alum Ian Spalter

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Tech and design pro, currently head of Instagram Japan

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Rhys Ernst

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Filmmaker and coproducer of Amazon's Golden Globe-winning show Transparent

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