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Alum Derry Noyes Delivers Miniaturized Iconic American Art to Our Mailboxes

Her projects involve the work of artists such as Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, and Charles and Ray Eames.

For Alum and Conservationist Story Clark, Audio Stories Connect Listeners to the Places Around Them

Story Clark 71F’s company, TravelStorysGPS, enables organizations to create high-quality, mini-podcast-like audio content that tells authentic stories about local places and travel routes.

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El programa Hampshire College en La Habana adopta las humanidades digitales para crear una experiencia de inmersión virtual dinámica

Traducción al español por Roberto García Suárez.

For Writer and Neuroscientist Erik Hoel 06F, Dreams and Consciousness Interweave to Create “Revelations”

Hoel, who was named one of Forbes’ Top 30 Scientists Under 30 in 2018, currently works as a research assistant professor at Tufts’ Allen Discovery Center.

Students and Emma Symanski

Photographic Storytelling and Adapting to Change

Recent Hampshire graduate Emma Symanski 17F created an innovative final project, and had to pivot when the pandemic hit.

Hampshire’s Ethics and the Common Good Project Selects Jasmyn Story and Honeycomb Justice for Spring Residency

Restorative justice facilitator Jasmyn Story and the organization Honeycomb Justice have been chosen for this year's Common Good Practitioner-Scholar Residency.

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President Ed Wingenbach Interviewed in Boston Business Journal on Hampshire’s Untraditional Path Back to Success

"Hampshire should be doing things that nobody else is doing—what everybody ought to be doing 10 years from now."

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As Part of Hampshire’s New Educational Model, Narrative Evaluations to be Replaced with Sea Shanties

These Narrative Evaluation Sea Shanties (NESS) will be recorded by faculty in the Hampshire Yurt and delivered to students as vinyl records imprinted at Hampshire’s own Center for Design.

Uzma Aslam Khan

Fiction Professor Uzma Aslam Khan on How Teaching and Writing Interconnect as a “Living Practice”

For award-winning author and Associate Professor of Fiction Writing Uzma Aslam Khan, focusing on language while also opening up the writing classroom to other disciplines is at the core of her teaching practice.

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Hampshire in Havana Program Embraces Digital Humanities to Create a Dynamic Virtual Immersion Experience

To center critical, historical, and decolonizing points of view, the program produced a series of video interviews with intellectuals, educators, activists, performers, filmmakers, and artists who live and work in Cuba.

Alum Ché Williams Uses Filmmaking to Tell Stories From the Inside Looking Out

Since graduating from Hampshire College last May, Ché Williams 16F has been working as a production assistant for a docuseries on the Tulsa Race Massacre that will air on the History Channel later this year.

Beth Lew-Williams

April 7: Inaugural Kay Johnson Lecture in Asian American Studies Examines History of Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.

Princeton University history professor Beth Lew-Williams will deliver Hampshire College’s inaugural Kay Johnson Lecture in Asian American Studies on Wednesday, April 7 at 4:30 p.m. EST.

Shalini Kantayya

Alum Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya’s Newest Documentary “Coded Bias” Airs on PBS

The film explores the ways biases and discrimination exist within the algorithms and data that drive our increasingly technological world.

Dance Professor Deb Goffe Joins New England Foundation of the Arts’ Regional Dance Development Initiative Cohort

Goffe is a performer, dance maker, dance educator, performance curator, and video artist, as well as the founder of Scapegoat Garden, a Hartford-based collaborative dance theater company.

Sofi Ward’s Div III Seeks to Make Parkour More Inclusive for Fem and Genderqueer Members of the Community

Ward’s Div III research delves into the experiences of fem and genderqueer members within the parkour community and the reasons why they leave the sport at a disproportionate rate.

Hampshire College campus

Statement Against Anti-Asian Violence

At Hampshire College, we condemn Anti-Asian violence in all its forms and commit ourselves to making visible the range and specificity of racial violence when it occurs in our local communities and when it is revealed in our national politics.

Ken Burns

Ken Burns Featured in New York Times Magazine on His Newest PBS Documentary and His Ceaseless Drive to Tell Stories

His newest documentary, Hemingway, will premiere April 5 on PBS.

Hampshire Professor Laela Sayigh on the Life-Changing Value of Hands-On Research

"At Hampshire, I can teach my courses around what interests and excites students, and this can even evolve throughout a class."

Hampshire College Professor Eqbal Ahmad

March 16: Eqbal Ahmad Symposium on “Race, Empire, and State-Sanctioned Violence”

The 22nd annual Eqbal Ahmad Symposium will take place on Tuesday, March 16 at 4 p.m. EST.

Hampshire Alum and Filmmaker Allison A. Waite Receives Directors Guild of America Student Film Award

Waite won for her documentary film The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins. The awards were announced in February of 2021.

Vanessa Northington Gamble

Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F Interviewed on PBS NewsHour Regarding Black Patients’ Struggle for Equal Access

Gamble is an internationally recognized expert on the history of race and American medicine, racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare, and bioethics.

Hampshire College Mourns the Loss of Professor Emeritus and Author Norton Juster

Juster taught architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from the college’s founding in 1970 until Juster’s retirement in 1992.

Campus and the Notch as seen from above

Hampshire Plans for In-Person Academic Year 2021-22

Our optimism stems from our proven record of safety during the 2020-21 academic year, as well as steady progress in vaccination efforts at the state and national levels.

Alum Melissa Hoffer 84F Joins Environmental Protection Agency as Key Member of Incoming Leadership Team

Hampshire College alum Melissa Hoffer 84F will serve as the EPA’s acting general counsel and principal deputy general counsel.

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