… Northeast Organic Farming Association Summer Conference The Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference, a three-day celebration of the grassroots organic movement marking its 43rd year, will be hosted by Hampshire College August 11–13. The conference had many years of success on Hampshire's …

… Aspiring musicians, take note: Nashville, known around the world as "music city," is the place where country, rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B, gospel, … according to Susan Wittenberg 70F . "Artists from all over the country come to live in Nashville," she says. "It's a …

… Craig ’08F has begun her law career as a clerk to the legislative council in the Vermont State House, where she’ll be writing … Law. A highlight of her studies, she says, was attending the United Nations 2014 Climate Conference, which was held in …

… Debating for Democracy Raul Matta has been associated with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker group engaged in addressing the root causes of poverty, injustice, and war, for more than a decade. In 2005 he was chosen to be a leader in the group's military counter-recruitment program, which goes …

… College alumnus Eugene Mirman 92F has been selected by the graduating class of 2012 to deliver the keynote address at commencement. Commencement will be held on May 19, 2012, at 11 a.m. on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. The keynote speaker at …

… Marjorie Dunehew Holyoke, Massachusetts Marge Dunehew is the elected staff trustee. She is purchasing manager and oversees the purchasing card and requisition/purchase order programs, manages the campus fleet vehicles, and supervises the duplication …

… Hart-Agudelo (pictured right) and Amy Putnam received the 2013 Carol and Blair Brown Staff Excellence Awards, … relations, and Putnam is theatre technical director. The awards recognize staff members who, individually or as … College. Nominations can be made by any member of the campus community. Hart-Agudelo was recognized for her …

… recently received a Fulbright Award to conduct research on the drinking water quality supplied to Indian cities. “Cities … drinking water only intermittently to their households. The infrequent delivery of drinking water to these homes impacts the water quality, which in turn impacts the health of the …

… Hampshire College is a top-producing institution for the 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational …

… Oprah.com, NBC News Professor Aracelis Girmay's new book The Black Maria , published this month, is being recognized … by a number of prominent national media including the Los Angeles Times , NBC News, Oprah.com, and Chicago Review of Books . The poetry collection was recognized by critic Rigoberto …

… Prize Professor Uzma Aslam Khan has been nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize, Asia's top literary award, for … Than Skin is Professor Khan's fourth novel. It tells the story of Nadir, a photographer from Karachi who lives in … who is Pakistani-American. "He is hoping to be inspired by the landscape. She's hoping to connect to a country she never …

… annually to students for their valuable contributions to the Five College Dance Department's (FCDD) programs and … has performed in FCDD faculty concerts annually for the last three years and she choreographed and performed for the Hampshire Winter Dance Concert 2014," said Jim Coleman, …

… of then Board Chair Gaye Hill. Trust is essential to the integrity and functioning of any Board. The Board expects the highest level of conduct and confidentiality from …

… He continued his research on nitrogen fixation at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University, where he investigated the energy cost of nitrogen fixation by nodulated woody … alders. His recent research and teaching interests include the biophysics of gas diffusion into and out of root nodules …

… Hampshire submitted our progress report to our accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). Hampshire remains a fully accredited college. The progress report was requested by the Commission after the events of last spring to demonstrate …

… Victoria Quine since she took her first dance class at the age of three. She's absorbed the techniques of modern, jazz, and ballet styles. Gymnastic … Hampshire's circus troupe, Circus Folk Unite, to leading the new student orientation program "Circus for the …

… mission-driven admissions strategy was presented at the national conference of the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning … new recruitment and enrollment approaches, including the recent decision to go “test-blind” and no longer consider …

… a B.A. from Amherst College. Professor Stillings has been the principal investigator for two major National Science … cognitive science education. He is senior coauthor of the 1987 and 1995 editions of Cognitive Science: An Introduction, the first undergraduate textbook in the field. Professor …

… Teens to Invest in Themselves "Communicating science to the masses is what I'm really interested in," says Human … August, Dobro was in Rwanda, where she collaborated with the non-profit Global Engagement Institute in a program requested by the country's Ministry of Health to teach infection …

… Manny Castro 02F Manny Castro 02F, executive director of the New Immigrant Community Empowerment organization in Queens, NY, was recognized with a $200,000 grant from the David Prize. Castro is the first Mexican-American and first DREAMer to hold the …

… Oct. 6 - 29: Faculty Art Show The Hampshire College Main Gallery will mount its annual Faculty Art Show from October 6 - 29. The 2013 faculty exhibition includes new work by Bill Brand … Ravett (photography), and Daniel Kojo Schrade (painting). The curator for the exhibition is faculty artist S. Billie …

… about finding a straightforward meaning or message in the writing, but about finding how the poem resonates in their body. Poetry's engagement with … consisting of a poetry manuscript and a creative essay. The poetry collection, titled LOST BOYS: poems , is from the …

… those things aren’t important, but Hampshire really values the practice of art as well. For your Div II project, you designed and built a bascinet. (The term “bascinet” describes a number of helmets used in Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries). Why bascinets? I think creating …

… what I’d been learning. I started by trying to answer the question, Why is this subject not taught in U.S. schools? … Native American students from colleges all over the country. Some were friends, some peers, and some I met through others. I wanted to hear the stories of students themselves, so I interviewed and …

… clippings. Quotes. Phrases heard from a passerby or on the radio. When she's about to begin a new story, she opens the folder up to see what random bit of information might take hold and weave itself into the text. For as long as she can remember, it's been an …