Five College News

Goffe’s performance piece was one of 50 projects to receive this prestigious U.S. award.

Anonymous donation will fuel the acceleration of Hampshire’s bold new approach to undergraduate liberal arts education

Professors Bajorek, Caldwell, and Loza join a group of interdisciplinary scholars to develop decolonial research.

Facility is a first-of-its-kind collaboration among Hampshire and four other leading New England liberal arts colleges

Garmirian joined Hampshire as the director of Outdoors Program and Recreational Athletics (OPRA) in 1979 and served in that role for more than 35 years

Some 900 alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of the College gather during beautiful fall weekend

Artist residency at Hampshire College and the Five Colleges with MadZoo TRK and Mow 504 of the RBS Crew to culminate with showing of new works.

This year's incoming class represents an 81% increase from last year in terms of total students, with a 114% uptick in first years.

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

Professor 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 move is part of Hampshire’s continuing commitment to making the College more accessible to transfer students.

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

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

“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

Fumio Sugihara will join us on March 30 from Marlboro College

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

“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

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

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

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

Campus Resources for Students, Staff, and Faculty

The Board has deliberated and voted on three important issues

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

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

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