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CLPP 28th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference
… creates reproductive rights opportunities at many levels." The Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) program at … Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom—will take place Friday, April 11, through Sunday, April 13, 2014. The conference focuses on broadening the fight for …
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Board Statement: February 18, 2019
… Board Statement: February 18, 2019 Yesterday the Board of Trustees of Hampshire College met to discuss progress on the efforts to envision and plan for Hampshire’s future. The … Chair Gaye Hill P02, Board Chair Richard M. Hurd 74F David H. Matheson P11 P13 Lucy-Ann McFadden 70F Daya Samantha Mena …
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Notable Alumni
Jeffrey Hollender 74S
… is cofounder of home-products company Seventh Generation, the American Sustainable Business Council, and Sustain … ago, he co-founded Seventh Generation and went on to build the fledgling company into a leading natural product brand … and provoke business leaders to think differently about the role they and their companies play in society. Along the …
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Student Enterprise In Agricultural Technology Awarded A $20K Venturewell Grant
… farms, has been awarded a $20,000 VentureWell grant. Over the past two years, the Agrigatr team designed its first prototype device, the Health and Environmental Analytics Toolkit (HEAT), to …
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Notable Alumni
Jonathan Friedland 77F
… Friedland 77F Jonathan Friedland 77F Jonathan Friedland is the chief communications officer for Netflix. He has spent … and publicity for original Netflix shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards —and has overseen the international expansion of Netflix's reach into 190 …
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Erick Msumanje Awarded Princess Grace Foundation Film Scholarship
… Film Scholarship Erick Msumanje 09F has been awarded the Princess Grace Foundation-USA 's 2012 John H. Johnson Film Award, a highly-competitive scholarship … student working in film. Msumanje plans to use the scholarship money to make his Hampshire College Division …
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Hampshire College Faculty Participate in Five College Working Group “Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective”
… are members of an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Five Colleges exploring topics of "Race, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective." For the academic year 2021–22, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies …
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2013 Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching
… of Mathematics Sarah Hews were chosen as recipients of the 2013 David Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching. Established by David Gruber 72F , the awards are intended to showcase faculty excellence at Hampshire College while encouraging the spread of ideas and methods that help professors provide …
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Andrea Domingue Is New Director of Multicultural & International Student Services
… and international student services, responsible for the operation of the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and student services for the SOURCE (Students of Under-Represented Colors and …
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Hampshire College Student Theatre Presents Fall 2018 Productions
… Gabe Sklan Two plays are going up this weekend in the Hampshire College Studio Theatre, and tickets are available now. The first, Marisol , is a published work by the award-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated …
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Sept. 24: Hampshire Fall Feast & BAMCO Eat Local Challenge
… This event is tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 5-7 p.m. in the RCC. All in the Hampshire campus community are invited. Each fall for the past few years, students involved in the Local Foods …
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Professor Annie Rogers on Language and Art by Patients in Psychosis
… Annie Rogers’s Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language (Karnac Books, May 2016) explores the connection between speech patterns and art made by … in psychosis and incorporates first-person accounts of the experience. On April 27, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Rogers will …
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Notable Alumni
Jeff Ritter 78F P14
… a long time and a part of ‘alternative education’ since the first time I was exposed to outdoor education with Project Use in NJ at age 14. A year with the Trailside Country School traveling the country meeting resource people, camping, backpacking, …
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Chen Chen 07F
… Chen Chen 07F Chen Chen 07F Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further … (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He is also the …
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Hampshire Alum Elizabeth Brundage’s Newest Book Named a Must-Read for July by “The Today Show”
… Brundage’s Newest Book Named a Must-Read for July by “The Today Show” Amy Diehl Hampshire alum and author Elizabeth Brundage 78F’s newest book, The Vanishing Point , was recently named a must-read for July by The Today Show . The book was one of five selected by …
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Faculty
Monique Roelofs
… professor emerita of philosophy, received her M.A. from the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland; and was a postdoctoral fellow in …
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Jeffrey Wallen
… Literary Politics and Public Culture was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Wallen has taught as a visiting professor at the Free University Berlin and at the University of Toulouse, and has been the director of …
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Daniel Kojo Schrade
… studied in Germany and Spain. He received an M.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany. His paintings and … have been presented internationally, including at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico; Alliance … in Munchen, Germany; Muzej Grada in Rijeka, Croatia; and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. He has taught …
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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F
… find art where scrap metal used to be. Even as a student, the talented metal sculptor is already getting commissions … niche," says Peters. A January term blacksmithing class in the Lemelson Center with Hampshire graduate Ben Westbrook 99F finally led Peters in the right direction. Metal was his medium. In the years …
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Div III Profile: Hampshire’s Phuong Leverages Five Colleges for Advanced Engineering Studies
… Lan Phuong “Panda” Nguyen Hoang’s Division III thesis has the potential to stretch from here to the moon with her research focused on superconducting … a case study that relied on classes available through the Five College Consortium, has earned her acceptance into a …
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Hampshire Awards First Ikeda Soka Scholarship for Studies of Peace-Building, Empathy, Ethical Leadership
… third-year student Natalie Murphy Strohm has been awarded the first Ikeda Soka Scholarship, created with generous gifts … academic work relates to topics such as peace-building, the science of mind–body health, and developing greater humanity in self and society. The endowment was established by Elisabeth Carter 82F, whose …
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Hampshire's Cristina Peña and Walker Staples Will Read in Five College PoetryFest
… and Walker Staples 10F will represent Hampshire College in the 12th Annual Five College PoetryFest. It will be held … Lecture Hall in Fayerweather Hall at Amherst College. The event is free and open to the public. PoetryFest celebrates the quality and range of …
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Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F Interviewed on PBS NewsHour Regarding Black Patients’ Struggle for Equal Access
… Gamble 70F was interviewed on PBS NewsHour around the medical field’s long history of discrimination and abuse … patients and how these issues became magnified during the pandemic. Gamble is a professor of medical humanities at … University and an internationally recognized expert on the history of race and American medicine, racial and ethnic …
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Free Flu Shot Plus Funds for Doctors Without Borders
… officials combined free flu shots with an appeal to the strong social consciousness of students. For every … was given to Doctors Without Borders to support the fight against Ebola in West Africa. The funds were personal contributions from President Jonathan …
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Univ of Illinois Professor of African American Studies To Deliver Schocket Lecture
… African American studies and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois, will speak on “Baldwin, Black Queer Radicalism, and the Critique of Western Civilization” at the ninth annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class …
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