Staff
Marjorie Dunehew
… 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 …
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Eugene Mirman 92F Chosen as 2012 Commencement Speaker
… 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 …
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2013 Carol and Blair Brown Award Recipients
… 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 …
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Hampshire Alum and Water Resource Engineer Mimi Alkattan receives Fulbright Award to Research in India
… 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 …
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Hampshire College is a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Students
… 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 …
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Professor Girmay's New Book Is A National Poetry Month Pick by Oprah.com, NBC News
… 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 …
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Professor's Novel Nominated for Man Asian Literary Prize
… 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 …
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Hampshire College Student Awarded Dance Scholarship
… 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, …
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April 2, 2019: Statement from Trustees Kim Saal 70F and Fraser Beede
… 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 …
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Faculty
Lawrence J. Winship
… 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 …
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CIEL Conference Presentation on Hampshire Admissions Strategy
… 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 …
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Faculty
Neil Stillings
… 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 …
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Movement and learning
… 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 …
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President’s Letter on Plans for Hampshire’s Future
… 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 …
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Notable Alumni
Manny Castro 02F
… 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 …
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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves
… 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 …
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Oct. 6 - 29: Faculty Art Show
… 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 …
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Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles'
… 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 …
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Hampshire Student Murphy Hunn Bridges History and Craft through Metalworking
… 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 …
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Professor Monique Roelofs Awarded a 2015 Curriculum Diversification Grant
… Diversification Grant for her project Theories of the Aesthetic: Rethinking Curricula in Philosophies of the Arts and Culture . The $5,000 grant was awarded by the American Society of …
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Division III Profile: Jonah Taylor's Tech Project Earns Him an Award and a Job
… at PolicyMap, a data and mapping tech startup based at the Reivinvestment Fund in Philadelphia. He describes the internship as "a mixture of design work including user … secured him a job after graduation. Taylor 11S redesigned the organization's software interface and marketing website. …
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Who Helps Survivors?
… For second-year student Amelia Carter, researching the harsh realities of human trafficking involves commitment to the future of those rescued from this appalling, modern-day form of slavery. "I'd like to look at the social services available to the survivors of human …
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Sensenich Examines Native American History and its Absence from U.S. Schools
… 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 …
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From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection
… 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 …
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A Multidisciplinary Examination of Depression
… disciplines are better than one. Her Division III examines the previously unstudied link between the psychological concept of autobiographical memory (AM), the stress-related chemical cortisol, and a mutation of the …
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