Hampshire in the News

Founded in 2014, the goal of the Wild Seed Project is to build awareness of the importance of native plants and to give people the tools to restore biodiversity.

Jason Salkey 80F reflects on his time at the College, as well as the role he played on TV that inspired him to write book, and the influence of his writer father, former Hampshire Professor Andrew Salkey.

The book was one of five selected by bestselling author Harlan Coben.

As part of her research, Alkattan will study the specific impact that intermittently-piped drinking water has on microbial drinking water quality.

Hampshire College alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F, a Sri Lankan writer and journalist, is the 2021 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Hampshire alums Mollie Hartford 01F, Lisa Dana Goding 88F, and Kate Lindroos-Conlin 04F and their nonprofit It Takes a Village were recently awarded a Nonprofit Excellence Award.

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.

Through a proposed residency with the National Tropical Botanical Garden, McLaughlin plans to expand her research and conservation work from temperate to tropical ecosystems.