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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Best-selling author and alum Daniel José Older 99F will pen the upcoming two-book Outlaw Saints series as part of Disney Publishing Worldwide imprint Rick Riordan Presents.

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. 

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.

Klare is currently a visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. and advises other organizations in the field.

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.

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

We have given ourselves the opportunity to make Hampshire work under unexpected conditions, and, with continuing vigilance and creativity, we will continue this success

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.”

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

Fumio Sugihara will join us on March 30 from Marlboro College

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

The effort will allow the campuses to develop and establish a set of new academic pathways for students interested in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Students create a vertical aquaponics system for growing greens sustainably indoors

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

Based in Los Angeles, Meara O’Reillly is a composer, artist, and instrument designer, playing music that’s largely of her own creation

A powerful community performance rounded out the day’s events

Darleane Torres Parlays a Robotics Idea into Reality

The major award re-imagines the way museums including the Hampshire College Art Gallery can share their online collections with each other and the world

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

"All students can and should be partners in defining the essential questions they wish to explore. This remains the approach most likely to create transformational outcomes."

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.”

Board Votes to Fundraise to Keep Hampshire Independent

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 free, Five College conference will have a new day of programming for youth, five featured speakers, and 35 workshops

A Letter to the Hampshire Community from President Miriam Nelson

Campus Resources for Students, Staff, and Faculty

The Board has deliberated and voted on three important issues

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

Meyers will analyze animal brain activity in real time using algorithms he has created

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

Non Satis Scire, Spring 2018, is a wrap. Science and art (together again), Nellie Greene 70F remembered, and other reflections

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

Nephew of iconic writer James Baldwin will deliver a public talk at Hampshire on Tuesday, April 10, at 5:00 p.m.

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

The duo will also screen the award-winning film ‘Hannah’ at the presentation on March 22

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

Ninth-annual conference explores a range of topics in a specifically queer context

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

Conventional biomimicry to be bolstered by enlisting slime molds as global decision-makers

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

American Sign Language, stop-motion animation, making music for media, and the science of food among the new offerings

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

Reading Elie Wiesel in Trump Tower (and other acts of Hampshire-ness)

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

The College appoints new professors to expand the curriculum in new, innovative ways

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

Weiss wrote her thesis utilizing intensive research to draft a national policy she hopes will inform generations of students

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

Studying animal science and herd management, April Nugent is leading independent research on livestock farming

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

Fourteen faculty were awarded grants to develop new courses and augment existing ones

"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

President Lash reaffirms Hampshire’s commitment to addressing and preventing sexual violence, assault, and harassment, and providing a fair, impartial process for anyone involved in a sexual misconduct case

Hampshire Summer 2017 Program students concluded their studies with a day of presentations modeled after Division III showcases

Exhibition featuring rarely seen images of Mexican Revolution runs from September 7 to December 1, with an opening event October 17

Poetry-themed exhibition Of Soil and Tongues continues through festival weekend and until October 1