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Framing Fantasy

… (06) drew on both her remarkable imagination and her own life experiences. Working with her faculty committee, Professor of Art Bill Brayton (chair) and Professor of Humanities Bob Meagher, she created a series … and through that process building the foundation for her Div III. For an advanced learning activity, she took …

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Division III Profile: Nicole DelRosso on DNA Computing

… Hart Nicole DelRosso came to Hampshire to study sculpture and left with a project holding great potential for detecting disease. DelRosso had been accepted to an art … she says, “so I took Professor Joanna Morris’s Brain and Cognition as my first-year tutorial.” She was fascinated …

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E-Newsletter: Special Div III Issue

… Serpulids are marine worms that secrete calcareous tubes and attach to hard surfaces, such as stone or shell. They are found around the globe and in a range of environments, but almost always in an … Her impressive research might well be used as a metaphor for the Division III itself. While outstanding individual …

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Earl Ubell Grant Awarded to Zoe Kleiman-Tapley 10F

… of science writers, the grant program recognizes and supports exceptional student work that seeks to make the … medium of television. He was health science editor for WCBS-TV from 1966 to 1972, and from 1978 to 1995. He served as the news director for WNBC-TV News from 1972 to 1976. Ubell …

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Notable Alumni

Doug Plotkin 80F

… at various top tier firms including IBM, PA Consulting, and Deloitte Consulting for some 30 years, focusing on IT Strategy and complex contract negotiations. After this long stint of …

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Marlene Fried

… Interim President of Hampshire College. Her scholarship and teaching is focused primarily on abortion rights and access, reproductive and sexual rights and health, and … Gutiérrez of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice , November, 2004 (awarded the Myers …

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Animated Film Takes Owen Neuburger from Div III to Pixar

… His experience in creating the animated film  Union  for his Division III capstone project, he says, was an … the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Chris Perry, an Academy Award-winner for … at Pixar. “Those two fields go well together side by side, and I use both a lot professionally,” he says. Neuburger …

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A Year of Events Celebrating 50 Years

… 50 Years This year marks an important milestone for Hampshire College — its 50th anniversary. Sadly, for the safety and well-being of our students and guests, we had to postpone the in-person portion of our …

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Prof. Michael Klare to Speak at APEC CEO Summit

… (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) promotes open trade and economic cooperation throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Klare will join regional and global business and political leaders at the CEO Summit, a forum to exchange ideas and search for solutions. While the United States is a member economy …

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William Null 72F

… Valley's leading law firms. Bill has been lead counsel for many major development projects in Westchester County. His practice is focused on real estate, land use, and zoning issues relating to commercial, institutional, and residential development in the Hudson Valley. Bill …

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Karla Zarate-Ramirez 92F P16

… 92F P16 Karla has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 19 years and is currently an executive director of development at the … where she works closely with the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences.  She formerly served as …

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Confirmation of Two H1N1 Cases at Amherst College

… has shared with us the information that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed through the Massachusetts … week are positive for H1N1 influenza, or swine flu. This news should not be cause for alarm. Amherst College has …

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A Degree Well Earned

… Andrei Kovalenko worked in a factory, packaging oxygen for medical use. Six years ago, at age 32, with his wife and two children, he immigrated into the United States, … naive" his writings were, "really raw," but imagination and storytelling ability shone so brightly through papers he …

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Recent Graduate Robert Ditto 17F’s Work with the Smithsonian Helped Make Freedmen’s Bureau Archives Available to All

… to Hampshire knowing he wanted to focus on his passion for history. When the unexpected disruptions of the pandemic … his passions. Ditto, who had experience in landscaping and building, decided to volunteer at a local historical … everyone. Read more on the Transcription Project via NBC News   Div IIIStudent Work and Publications History … Recent …

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Div III Tests Boundaries

… Taliesin Nyala 07F In writing a play about Israel and Palestine, May graduate Sharon Goldberg (04F) sought to … The walls she hopes to dissolve are those between audience and actors, past and present, education and entertain-ment. … productions. This field study laid the groundwork for Goldberg to delve into extensive research and writing as …

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Kimberly Chang

… Chang, associate professor emerita of cultural psychology and creative nonfiction, holds a B.A. in psychology from William Smith College, and an M.A. in international relations, an M.S. in … of MemoryWorks , a creative research and writing practice for individuals and communities seeking to reclaim histories …

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When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

… When Identity Trumps Self-Interest Abigail Meisel For Olivia Brochu, the political is personal.  The first germ … school carpool. A Worcester, Massachusetts, native, she and her best friend often drove to school with her friend’s mother. “I admired her mother and felt close to her,” Brochu says. “She’d been able to …

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It's On You: Symposium Shows What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur

… in amazing experiences over her decades in theater, and can be applied to any interest or career. Hamilton is cofounder and artistic director of KO Festival of Performance, a themed … campus.” The event marked the launch of a three-year pilot for Entrepreneurship Education at Hampshire College, made …

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Alumni Profile: An Education with Teeth

… Alumni Profile: An Education with Teeth For Allison van der Velden 03F , isolating a novel genus has given way to flossing, fluoride, and filling cavities. Allison is enrolled in her second year … from high school, I thought I was going to do language and religion," she said. However, after taking one of …

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What Do Blue Jays Say?

… model, student projects often begin with a question. For Sarah Faegre, that question was: what do blue jays say … From September through November, Faegre awoke before dawn and headed out into the fields and woods surrounding the college to record the range of …

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Notable Alumni

Suzanne Perkins 85F P18

… at the University of Michigan studying how poverty and child maltreatment affect brain development. She was a … with abuse and neglect, and continues her advocacy for people living with disabilities as a member of the IDEA … She is a co-founder and research lead for SaveHampshire.com and brings to the AAG her knowledge of academia, advocacy …

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Flower Growing in Kenya

… Zawadi Nyong'o (00F) learned that flowers grown in Kenya for the European market come at a very high price: the … flower farms. The daughter of a prominent politician and a journalist, Nyong'o is well educated and urbane, but … to the legal issues. Nyong'o searched library archives for news articles about sexual harassment of female workers in …

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Number Theory

… You never know when you're going to find your calling. For some, it's a lifelong search. For Zebediah Engberg, it … got here," says Engberg. "I thought I would do philosophy, and those were good classes. But the math classes surpassed … a study of the properties of integers (negative and positive numbers and zero, excluding fractions), it's a …

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Folk Music Collective

… it comes to the task of making a little harmonious noise. For a while inside it's quiet—time for food, some catching … Not too much later, everyone clumps together in a circle and the music starts. It's just another Wednesday night for … place where students could just show up on a regular basis and know there would be musicians around willing to play …

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Eddie Mandhry 97F

… co-founded by the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy. He is presently leading the Virtual Center for Advanced Potential, a global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance the field of talent …

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