Five College News

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every year, thousands of students from across the five colleges freely cross-register for courses at partner institutions – 4,653 cross-registrations in 2016-17

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Hamp alum, Gunnarsdóttir served the past year as a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico City, and was previously Associate Director of Admissions

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

The public is invited to submit comments as Hampshire undergoes a comprehensive evaluation toward reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Drawing national coverage by science media, new research promises better understanding of bacteria affecting human health

Fourth-year student Malik Ford and alum Emily Drummer, now in grad school at the University of Iowa, are two of ten US college students to receive the award this year

Using Hampshire’s ERP brain-imaging lab, Prasad measured how participants responded to the use of  “they” as a singular pronoun

The PVTA received hundreds of comments from students, families, employees, and community members, attesting to the value of the college bus routes

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

The libraries of Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges partner to publish a digital archive, while a new Five College Library Annex will store up to 2.5 million items

PVTA is inviting comments to the proposed cuts at public hearings and by email and phone

Fuentes’s project sheds light on anti-Roma sentiment through linguistics and media studies in her native Spain

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

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

Award marks the 13th Fulbright received by Hampshire students and young alums the past six years

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

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

The commitment continues Hampshire’s bold action in support of environmental education and environmental justice

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

Seid combined music and ethnography to study and perform 18th century music

The team designed the Health and Environmental Analytics Toolkit (HEAT) to save small farms time and money by alerting them when cattle are in peak fertility

President Lash writes in HuffPost.com about new research showing improved learning when students self-evaluate, including a study of Hampshire's practice

Mann co-founded the GlowLime gaming collective at the Five Colleges, and helped design a number of original video games

A committee of students programs the College's theater season each year and oversees operations and budget

Hemler's project seeks to change perceptions of disabled people using large-format photography

The College participated in the annual tournament designed to improve efforts to reduce or eliminate waste on campuses nationwide

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

The Carol and Blair Brown Awards recognize staff who, individually or as members of a team, have made an exceptional contribution to Hampshire

Hundreds of student hackers representing schools throughout the Northeast attended the second annual event

Gloria Lopez was dean of students and acting VP at Northampton Community College, Pennsylvania  

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

Goal of David Pearl’s Bystand app is to make first-aid info, emergency assistance more responsive and accessible

Natalie Strohm receives the first scholarship from the $500,000 endowment established by alum Elisabeth Carter to advance “the highest potential of human beings”

Shulkin earned his bachelor's in science in 1982 – Faculty Advisors Nancy Lowry and Ray Coppinger helped him design a personalized premed studies program

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

Helmed by Hampshire undergrads, The Seed Fund awards funding to support innovative entrepreneurial start-ups led by current students and young alums

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

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

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

Spring term on campus features a range of events produced by students and faculty including conferences, lectures, performances, Div III academic showcases, and more

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

Michelle Joan Wilkinson will highlight flag-related objects from the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where her projects relate to contemporary black life

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

Taylor, who teaches African American studies at Princeton, is an organizer of the International Women’s Strike and author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Hampshire compared side by side with 150 peer institutions in annual survey of college students in US, Canada

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

Students can learn screenwriting, social justice activism, curatorial practice, metalworking, linguistics, biology, and more

In the past four years, half a dozen Hampshire employees received Fulbright Scholar awards for international exchange, while 11 Hampshire grads received Fulbright Student awards to teach and lead research overseas

In honor of his late wife, Hampshire parent Alexander “Sandy” Astin has established The Helen S. Astin Fund for Research on Women

Professor Fred Moten, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and scholar of black studies, poetics, and literary theory, will present, “Manic Depression: A Poetics of Hesitant Sociology,” on Thursday, March 30

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

Community activist Iris Morales rose to prominence in the Vietnam War era as one of the first female members of the revolutionary Latin@/Latinx organization the Young Lords Party