Five College News

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

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. 

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.

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

Hampshire College is pleased to announce Carl M. Ries as the vice president for finance and administration and treasurer.

Economist and Hampshire alum Heather Boushey 88F currently serves as a key member of President Joe Biden's Council of Economic Advisers.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Carroll is a cultural critic, author, journalist, and the host of the podcast Coming Through with Rebecca Carroll, a series of 15 conversations about race that launched last year.

Voter activist Malika Redmond will speak Tuesday, March 9 on “Reflecting on 2020: How Black Women Led Voter Engagement Efforts to a Progressive Victory in Georgia.”

Moore will use the funds for research on geographic and racial disparities in breast cancer diagnoses and treatment.

Christoph Cox, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and professor of philosophy, will lead a discussion on the politics of listening in conjunction with the exhibition "The Power of Protest" at The Media Majlis in Doha, Qatar. 

As part of the ongoing celebration of its 50th anniversary, Hampshire College is hosting several upcoming events showcasing the work of alumni in a variety of fields. 

Ethics and the Common Good Project, in partnership with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, announced the first cohort of Ethics and the Common Good faculty fellows.

The article was in collaboration with Renae Brodie, a professor of biological sciences at Mount Holyoke College, and part of Hews’ larger work on energy budget modeling.

100% Trustee Participation in Change in the Making Campaign led by retired NASA scientist and College Trustee Dr. Lucy McFadden.

The spring semester will include even more Covid-19 testing as well as additional opportunities for safe, in-person instruction and socializing

Hampshire President Ed Wingenbach has signed on to a statement co-authored by Amherst College and Wesleyan University Presidents

Fall classes will now begin on August 25 and end on November 20, the Friday prior to Thanksgiving

“I am confident in Hampshire's future. I know that getting there will require both hard work and real costs.”

Deposit deadline for accepted students extended to June 1, virtual tours and Accepted Student days now available

Dr. Cox will serve as chief academic officer, responsible for Hampshire’s academic mission, budget, and governance for academic affairs

Most important, Hampshire College will temporarily adopt remote instruction after spring break in order to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and allow time to assess whether students can return to campus in April. 

The digital archive is hosted for public and research use at the Five College Compass: Digital Collections and the Center for Research Libraries

Five faculty and guest artists from each campus to perform works that investigate human distance and intimacy

College reorganizes around modern themes empowering students to explore freely and innovate across fields

Students create a vertical aquaponics system for growing greens sustainably indoors

Hampshire Actively Recruits New Students for Its 50th Anniversary Class of 2020

I hope you will join us in shaping and supporting our work to launch Hampshire into our next 50 years

A powerful community performance rounded out the day’s events

Darleane Torres Parlays a Robotics Idea into Reality

Hampshire leads innovation in higher education with new framework reshaping the liberal arts

Hampshire College will adopt a bold, distinctive vision to reestablish Hampshire as the leader in higher education innovation

Hampshire’s Application is Now Live on the Common App for Spring and Fall 2020

“It’ll take everyone’s cooperation and imagination to re-make Hampshire.”

Activist, sexuality educator, and “cancer warrior,” Ericka Hart will deliver the keynote at Hampshire’s Commencement on May 18, 2019.

“The Board of Trustees has asked me to become Interim President to help Hampshire find its way in a difficult time, and I will do my best.”

The Board met earlier today and voted to appoint Kenneth Rosenthal as interim president

I notified our Interim Board Chair Luis Hernandez and Vice Chair Kim Saal that I am resigning as president of Hampshire

Graduating student Bailey Fernandez 15F on designing and writing his sublime and torturous final project

The Board of Trustees of Hampshire College met to discuss progress on the efforts to envision and plan for Hampshire’s future

A Letter to the Hampshire Community from President Miriam Nelson

Campus Resources for Students, Staff, and Faculty

Exhibition of works from Advanced Studio Seminar will run December 10–13 with a reception Dec. 12

Bells, borders, a Bessie Award winner, and the confessions of a class notes fanatic: what's inside Non Satis Scire, Fall 2018

Honors range from a National Science Foundation grant to publication awards and fellowships for research worldwide

Grants will support student research and field study of the US impact on countries in Latin America

College is one of three to receive Achievements Awards, from more than 300 entries

Hampshire College Art Gallery Hosts The Museum of the Old Colony and special events and programs this fall

The endowment for the Jonathan Lash Chair in Environmental Education is funded by gifts from more than 100 donors and growing

Nelson is an academic and public-scholar activist, earning national recognition for her expertise as a scientist and author of groundbreaking studies

Designed by architects from Bruner/Cott and built by Hampshire alum Jonathan Wright, the Kern Center is the largest certified higher-education project in the world

Hampshire undergraduates have rare access to an advanced mass spectrometer bought with an NSF grant

Opening reception is March 21 for exhibition of Zea Mays artists' prints inspired by the poem Traces

Ross launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the 1980s, and led the 2004 March for Women’s Lives, one of the largest protest marches in U.S. history

Speaking on March 29, Federici is an activist, writer, and founder of the International Feminist Collective and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa

Inglis brings years of experience as an award-winning choral director, multi-instrumentalist, and certified master teacher of Estill Voice Training

Public events are part of a residency with Reggie Daniels and Amie Dowling in Amherst, Greenfield, and Northampton, February 22-26

Slime molds address national and global issues in collaboration with students and faculty

Events include the touring Telluride Film Fest, lectures, the student-run Deaf Studies Conference, exhibits, performances by noted musicians, the annual Winter Dance Concert and more

The College ranks #39 among US colleges and universities by percentage of grads who earn the most-advanced research degree

Fund created by alum Trustee Judy Bornstein will support, in perpetuity, education promoting women's participation and leadership in business

Hampshire alum Arslan Muradi and a group of allies at Hampshire and Tufts teamed up to help his family escape the Taliban

Twelve students received grants for a wide range of projects on issues of the common good and ethical inquiry

Every year, thousands of students from across the Five Colleges freely cross-register for courses at partner institutions

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

In collaboration with Professors Michael Klare and Uditi Sen,  Beauchene analyzed the relationship between U.S. intervention and the spread of global terror

Two admitted students will receive full funding for the spring 2018 semester

Benedict, whose groundbreaking coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated film The Invisible War, will read from her latest novel, Wolf Season

Hampshire professors continue to produce innovative work this year — books, articles for peer-reviewed journals, films, plays, and presentations

Samy Schrade and Mae Fuller use a study-abroad experience to develop custom products for people with chemical sensitivities

A report revealing the college’s decisions and results is published by Intentional Endowments Network

UCLA Professor of African American Studies Kelly Lytle Hernández and grassroots organizer Fahd Ahmed were featured speakers November 9

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

O'Rourke is a youth delegate to the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Germany this year, her second year in the role

A Mellon Foundation grant of $1.2 million helped fund the concept for the new service hub

The annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture honors the teaching, scholarship, and activism of the longtime Hampshire College professor, who died in 1999

Special events on campus this semester span art exhibits, theater productions, lectures and talks by guest speakers, and film screenings

Gift will fund a course on learning differences and inclusion, internships for students concerned with equitable education for youths with disabilities, and an annual conference

Fall term events include theater performances, film screenings, and innovative art exhibitions across campus

"All the early faculty members gave up good positions to come to Hampshire, some of them very lucrative and well-tenured positions, to take a gamble for a place that wasn't even open."

More than 50 donors have founded the Rosenthal Fund for Faculty to generate grants supporting Hampshire professors for their research, projects, and course development