Faculty News and Notes

Part Three of Three Selections of Speeches From The Kern Center Dedication on September 16

How does a community create meaningful dialogue about difficult issues? How do we use critical inquiry to address pressing challenges?

Writing book (plates), documenting New Orleans band leaders, talking molecular biology, making a great pair of sideburns, dishing it out at the Red Barn, and more

Center offers cutting-edge technology and a conceptual and physical space for students and faculty to collaborate using models—mathematical, physical, computer, and more

Program spans disciplines across the Five Colleges and encompasses reproductive health care, welfare policy, gender justice, and adoption

Rare manuscript owned by alum Bob McCarthy was analyzed as part of the 2016 Institute for Curatorial Practice Internship Program at Hampshire  

All incoming students chose a tutorial course this fall from some 30 offerings across disciplines – we spoke with three tutorial professors

Harvard Kennedy School Professor explores the question, "How did liberals with the best of intentions build prison America?"

Events include a week dedicated to study, reflection, and discussion about our work on campus and in society to undo racism and support communities of color

Research examines the global medical establishment's false perceptions of the weakness of the female body and the greatest health risks to women during childbirth

Expanded gift will endow a Professorship in Applied Ethics and the Common Good, and courses and research on morality, ethical behavior, and social institutions

Professor Susan Darlington and Rabbi Ellen Bernstein were invited to deliver lectures at the esteemed Institution which hosts more than 100,000 guests per summer

Barskova, associate professor of Russian literature at Hampshire, is one of her country’s most famous poets, and 2015 winner of Russia’s oldest independent literary award, the Andrei Bely Prize

Professor Abraham Ravett was haunted by the photo of the German teenage girl who had taken care of him in Walbrzych in 1950. All he knew was her first name. Ilse

Students strive to create affordable agricultural products for developing countries and locally, in western Massachusetts