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Professors Receive Grants and Fellowships for Summer Research

Awards support summer projects and development of new courses by Hampshire faculty members Jennifer Bajorek, Ira Fay, Becky Miller, Rachel Rubinstein, and Wilson Valentín-Escobar

Hampshire College Professor of Psychology Neil Stillings

Neil Stillings Scholarship Fund Created for Cognitive Science Students

Fund honors Professor of Psychology Stillings, who began teaching at Hampshire in 1971 and helped shape the field of Cognitive Science

Hampshire College Alum Gary Marcus 86F

Artificial General Intelligence: Why Aren’t We There Yet?

From Non Satis Scire, The Hampshire College Alumni Magazine, Summer 2017

Hampshire College Professors Mei Ann Teo and L. Brown Kennedy

Enter the Line, See Where it Leads You

From Non Satis Scire, The Hampshire College Alumni Magazine, Summer 2017

Hampshire College Professor Eqbal Ahmad

From Non Satis Scire, The Hampshire College Alumni Magazine, Summer 2017

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Non Satis Scire, Hampshire's Alumni Magazine, Summer 2017

The origins of a circular diploma, ruminations on Velázquez’s Las Meninas, Eqbal Ahmad’s first campus visit, Division IIIs, and a spirited discussion on theater and literature among faculty

The plasmodial slime molds known as Physarum polycephalum, being studied at Hampshire College

Hampshire College Welcomes First Non-Human Scholars-In-Residence

The Center for Plasmodial Research will host visiting scholars of the Physarum polycephalum species through 2019

Hampshire College Professor Annie Rogers

Professor Annie Rogers on Language and Art by Patients in Psychosis

Rogers will present slides of art from within psychosis from her book Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language on Thursday, April 27

Hampshire College Professor of Architectural and Art History Karen Koehler

Professor Koehler Named Visiting Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art

Karen Koehler will conduct summer research in Washington, D.C., on the architect Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus School of Art

Living Learning Communities students

Faculty Take Learning Outside the Classroom for First-Year Students

New tutorial courses allow more faculty-student interaction and more learning in the community and throughout the Five Colleges

Hampshire College Professor Abraham Ravett

Professor Ravett's 'Holding Hands With Ilse' To Premiere at Multicultural Film Fest

Documentary centered on Ravett's family emigration story and a mystery dating back to World War II will debut April 19 at UMass Amherst

Photo by Jim Coleman

Hampshire to Host National Symposium on Black Aesthetics

Event will examine artistic and social-political themes across disciplines such as African American studies, literature, and philosophy, across media such as architecture, painting, and sound

Image By Máximo Colón, 1972, Rally at 100 Center Street, Manhattan, NY

Campus Exhibit Commemorates Black Panther Party and Young Lords Party

Curated by Professors Chris Tinson, Wilson Valentín-Escobar, and Research Librarian Alana Kumbier, the exhibit focuses on the organizing efforts of these influential political organizations

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Photo of Bloody Sunday in 1965 Alabama by Spider Martin. A political-art billboard by Wyatt Gallery and For Freedoms

Eric Gottesman's Political-Art Campaign 'For Freedoms' Earns ICP Infinity Award, Residency at MoMA/PS1

Gottesman and project partner Hank Willis Thomas are honored with the leading award for achievement in photography and the visual arts

panel discussion on Islamophobia and Being Muslim in America

Filmmaker's Panel on Islamophobia, Being Muslim in America

Pakistani American filmmaker Mara Ahmed will speak on a panel with Hampshire and Smith faculty and screen her film about the partition of India

Geremías Polanco Encarnación

Grant Supports Professor's Return to Dominican Republic to Mentor Math Teachers and Students

Geremías Polanco Encarnación is building on on his doctoral research while mentoring at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo

An Image from Hampshire College Professor Michael Lesy's ‘Looking Backward’

Professor Michael Lesy's Historic Stereography Exhibit Presented by California Museum of Photography

New exhibit and book are drawn from Lesy’s Guggenheim Fellowship researching the largest surviving archive of stereoscopic photographs

An image from "The Dancing Room," featuring Hampshire College Professor John Slepian's work

Experimental Dance Show by Dean Slepian and Collaborators To Premiere This Week

Slepian contributed interactive media and sculpture to the evening-length, multidisciplinary performance by the troupe Adele Myers and Dancers

An image from Hampshire College Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty's new exhibition 'Gloves Off'

Hampshire Alum Curates Exhibit by Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty at SUNY New Paltz

Rafferty and curator Andrew Ingall will lead a gallery talk at The Dorsky Museum on Saturday, April 1

Hampshire College Professor Seeta Sistla

New Study By 50 World Scientists Warns of More Severe Threat from Global Warming

Coauthor Seeta Sistla, assistant professor of ecosystem ecology, says the study raises the urgency to control carbon emissions now

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