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Students Design Escape Room Show To Puzzle Audiences

This superhero-themed immersive theater experience was designed by students as a project-based fall course

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Div II Profile: LAURA HOWARD 15F

Division II students in their own words, from Non Satis Scire magazine

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Culture, Brain, and Development Program Awards Students Over $10,000 in Grants

Seven students will develop projects crossing disciplines and covering topics from prenatal storytelling to sound meditation

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Div III Profile: Suhilah Booker Studies Benefits of Movement to Early Learners

Booker utilized Hampshire’s Early Learning Center for an intensive, interdisciplinary project integrating movement in early childhood ed

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Div III Profile: Hampshire’s Phuong Leverages Five Colleges for Advanced Engineering Studies

Hampshire student Lan Phuong “Panda” Nguyen Hoang collaborated with professors throughout the Five Colleges to study superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

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Div III Profile- Grusha Prasad on the Cognition of "They"

Using Hampshire’s ERP brain-imaging lab, Prasad measured how participants responded to the use of  “they” as a singular pronoun

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Div III Profile: Isaiah Mann, GlowLime Games, and Defender's Light

Mann co-founded the GlowLime gaming collective at the Five Colleges, and helped design a number of original video games

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HampHack Students Tackle 21st-Century Problems in 24-Hour Challenge

Hundreds of student hackers representing schools throughout the Northeast attended the second annual event

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Div III Profile: Syrian Refugee Accounts Inspire Student's Emergency Response App

Goal of David Pearl’s Bystand app is to make first-aid info, emergency assistance more responsive and accessible

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Students in Game Course Seek to Publish New Game in Four Months

Interdisciplinary Game Studio class is hard at work developing a new adventure mobile game

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From car radios to hotspots: Students in Media In Cars amassing public archive

Professor Miller’s seminar is supported by a Five College Blended Learning grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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2014 CBD Fall Grant Awards Announced

The Culture, Brain and Development program has awarded grants to seven students to pursue interdisciplinary research.

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Student Project Creating Smartphone Software to Monitor Blood Sugar

Dillon Compton 06F Hampshire Division III (senior) project: creating a software application that will allow people with diabetes to use smartphones to monitor their blood sugar.

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Chemicals of Fear

In summer 2007, during a field study in Chiapas, Mexico, Kate Mathis (04F) worked as an assistant researcher. During her last month there, she was given freedom to design her own project, and chose to study Azteca ants.

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Computer Collaboration

Getting computers to work together is the goal of Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin's 04F final Hampshire project. Entitled DFlux, his Division III work seeks to expand a programming language so that it can allow multiple computers to handle complex tasks together.

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Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Accepts Paper by Haoxi Zhan 12F

A research paper by Haoxi Zhan 12F has been accepted for presentation and publication at a workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference in Vancouver.

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“The Ultimate Limits of Computation”

Marco Carmosino contends that the freedom to self-direct is just as beneficial for studying complexity theory as it is for photography, anthropology, biology, playwriting, or anything else.

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Designing DNA

Isaac Bruss 06F can tell DNA to self-assemble into a structure of his own choosing.

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An Alternative Habitat

Cora Ann Johnston's 04F eyes sparkle when she talks about juvenile blue crabs. Her Division III details her work finding an alternative nursery habitat for the tiny crabs in Chesapeake Bay.

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