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President Ed Wingenbach

Announcing the Reappointment of President Ed Wingenbach

The Hampshire Board of Trustees unanimously offered a five-year contract following a comprehensive review of his first two years.

Daisha Dukes 17F and Yari Bushell 17F

Daisha Dukes and Yari Bushell’s collaborative Div III, the We Belong Project, Centers Student-Led Spaces

Sparked by their mutual desire to foster a space “for students, by students,” Daisha Dukes 17F and Yari Bushell 17F created their collaborative Div III, the We Belong Project.

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Hampshire College Alum Heather McCargo, Founder of the Wild Seed Project, Wins Source Award

Founded in 2014, the goal of the Wild Seed Project is to build awareness of the importance of native plants and to give people the tools to restore biodiversity.

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Alum Actor Jason Salkey Uses TV Role Inspiration to Follow in His Father’s Footsteps

Jason Salkey 80F reflects on his time at the College, as well as the role he played on TV that inspired him to write book, and the influence of his writer father, former Hampshire Professor Andrew Salkey.

The Vanishing Point by Elizabeth Brundage

Hampshire Alum Elizabeth Brundage’s Newest Book Named a Must-Read for July by “The Today Show”

The book was one of five selected by bestselling author Harlan Coben.

Hira Nabi and photo from Divad Durant's film Goodnight Sun

Hampshire College Alums Divad Durant and Hira Nabi Featured in "The Nation"

Durant’s piece, "Work in Progress," focuses on a film Durant made during the pandemic. Nabi examines her experiences in Pakistan, as well as news cycles received from different parts of the world.

Hampshire Alum and Water Resource Engineer Mimi Alkattan receives Fulbright Award to Research in India

As part of her research, Alkattan will study the specific impact that intermittently-piped drinking water has on microbial drinking water quality.

Michael Carriere and The City Creative

Alum Michael Carriere 94F Co-Authors Comprehensive History on Creative Placemaking

The City Creative is one of the first comprehensive histories of the field of creative placemaking as practiced in the United States

Kanya D'Almeida

Hampshire College Alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F Wins the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Hampshire College alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F, a Sri Lankan writer and journalist, is the 2021 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Mollie Hartford 01F, Lisa Dana Goding 88F, and Kate Lindroos-Conlin 04F

Three Hampshire Alums Receive Nonprofit Excellence Award

Hampshire alums Mollie Hartford 01F, Lisa Dana Goding 88F, and Kate Lindroos-Conlin 04F and their nonprofit It Takes a Village were recently awarded a Nonprofit Excellence Award.

Recent Graduate and Documentary Filmmaker Mecca Lewis on How Investigation and Play Infuse her Work

"Embracing skill-building in writing and research and new developments in my creative style, I allowed myself room to improvise and discover new things in every project I worked on."

Professor Susana Loza on Why a Hampshire Education is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue

"I love how passionate, critical, and engaged our students are. They know that education is a dialogue, not a monologue. They come to class ready to collaborate and eager to learn from and with us."

Fiction Writing Helped Amani Smith 15F Explore Relationships Between Time, Memory, and Generational Trauma

Smith's Div III is a compilation of personal short stories that center around the feeling of “transcendental homelessness,” or feeling a permanent sense of separation from an ideological home.

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Hampshire College Held Free On-Campus Vaccine Clinics

On two Sundays three weeks apart, Hampshire offered the Pfizer vaccine to all campus community members.

Hampshire College Graduate Hayden Gadd 18S Announced as Winner of 2021 Lorna M. Peterson Prize

Gadd received a Five College Certificate in cognitive neuroscience and a Certificate of Advanced Specialization in ASL from the Five College Center for World Languages.

Robert Caldwell

Native American and Indigenous Studies Professor Robert Caldwell Brings Deep Research to His Teaching

Visiting Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies Robert Caldwell joined the Hampshire community as part of the Five College Consortium’s expansion of the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) certificate program.

Blair McLaughlin

Hampshire Professor Blair McLaughlin Awarded Whiting Foundation Grant to Study Tree Conservation Genetics

Through a proposed residency with the National Tropical Botanical Garden, McLaughlin plans to expand her research and conservation work from temperate to tropical ecosystems.

Hampshire College Joins Massachusetts Independent College Transfer Guarantee Program

The move is part of Hampshire’s continuing commitment to making the College more accessible to transfer students.

Eric Carle

Hampshire College Mourns the Loss of Author and Illustrator Eric Carle

The Hampshire College community is deeply saddened to hear of Eric Carle’s passing. Carle co-founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, located on the Hampshire College campus, in 2002.

Kunga Chonyi 17F on His Div III Journey to Neurobiology and Nursing

Recent graduate Kunga Chonyi 17F came to Hampshire College in the fall of 2017 through a student exchange program with the Central University for Tibetan Studies.

Benjamin Mako Hill

Alum Benjamin Mako Hill 99F Awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Benjamin Mako Hill 99F, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Alice Petty 89F Joins Hampshire Board as Alumni Trustee

“I am hopeful about Hampshire’s future and I want to see Hampshire continue its leadership in pedagogical innovation in higher education.”

2021 graduates

Hampshire College Commencement Celebrated Grads After a Challenging Year

The ceremony honored 214 students who graduated from Hampshire this year.

Leidy Churchman

Artist and Hampshire Alum Leidy Churchman 98F’s Paintings are Absorbing Meditations of Consciousness

Churchman’s work is currently in collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Mumok, among other locations.

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