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College Innovators Supported by Roddenberry Foundation Gift
… has got all this great, useful stuff created on campus, and sometimes it's hard to get it out into the world," said Colin Twitchell, instructor for design and innovation for social change. "This can really help turn … provides funding for annual grants that aid in development and field-testing of prototypes of student designs, support …
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Photo Books Become Home for a Divided Family
… family had lived in different cities in Texas, California, and Massachusetts. But this time, while packing and unpacking, Hermano found something that made her rethink … II, she made a series of portraits related to biology and genetics. Her project was about “the way your genotype, …
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Open-Access Education: Students Win When Schools Team Up
… have taken a different approach: to collaborate and partner, across public and private education. And the winners are students, educators, and the communities …
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Myrna Breitbart
… Breitbart Myrna Breitbart, professor emerita of geography and urban studies, has an A.B. and Ph.D. from Clark University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the gender, race, and class …
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KIMBERLY CHANG's NEW BOOK EARNS NATIONAL ACCLAIM
… to Memory weaves together fiction, anthropology, and memoir Kimberly Chang, associate professor of cultural … of occupation by the Japanese, World War II, a civil war, and the Communist revolution. Published under her Chinese … that stands at the crossroads of fiction, memoir, history, and anthropology. It has garnered praise in, among other …
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Student Research on the Hampshire College Farm: Raising Pigs Outdoors in Natural Settings
… outdoor settings; she's researching the nutritional and animal-welfare benefits of a pasture versus a woodlot. … Old Spots has also been a hands-on lesson in pig breeding and the business of livestock farming. Nugent began her studies of swine physiology and nutrition by working on the Hampshire College Farm, which …
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Getting Off the Grid Through the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative
… roof will be the primary means of generating that energy, and the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative began … the Tern Foundation’s Tern SOLAR Challenge Grant Program and a $58,000 gift from an anonymous donor, the goal of the … is paving a path toward innovation, transformation, and social responsibility. The Kern Center promises to serve …
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'Quidditch' as Artificial Intelligence Experiment
… version of the rapid-fire game played by young witches and warlocks in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. … terms, teams learn what behavior is desirable by surviving and their desirable traits get passed along in the … In Crawford-Marks' project, titled "Virtual Witches and Warlocks: Computational Evolution of Teamwork and …
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Nathan Kensinger Finds Beauty in Forgotten Spaces
… in Forgotten Spaces Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F Abandoned and ruined areas have always fascinated photographer and documentary filmmaker Nathan Kensinger 97F . Currently … airports, hospitals, schools, factories, boat graveyards, and landfills. In his work, Kensinger exposes forgotten …
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Immigration, Incarceration, State Power: 20th-Annual Eqbal Ahmad Symposium Slated for November
… of the Eqbal Ahmad Symposium with activist panels and lectures on the topics of immigration, incarceration, and state power. The events are free and open to the public. On Thursday, November 9, at 4 p.m. in …
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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections
… can share their online collections with each other and the world. The current shared collections database at Five Colleges was developed more than 20 years ago, and this commitment to a consortial database has enriched collaboration across the Five Colleges and opened up discovery and access to museum collections for …
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Jesse Steinmetz Named Poet Laureate by Hometown
… Of far more significance to the Hampshire College student and Washington, CT, poet laureate is how he might help … poetry camp. “I was definitely more excited about reading and writing than in learning multiplication tables or anything science related, and my mom recognized that,” Steinmetz says. “My family is …
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Jan. 22-Feb. 28: Barbara Norfleet Photography Exhibition
… by photographer Barbara Norfleet, DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol , will be in the Jerome Liebling Center … on the subject of alcohol. Norfleet is the founder and director of the Harvard Photography Collection, and has been a pioneering artist and thinker in photography …
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Hampshire Alum Asher Edes 03F Awarded Grant for Jewish Community-Building Project
… of 2021. Shmita Hives is a year-long art-, play-, and discussion-based curriculum for adults designed by Edes and artist and farmer Alexander Vickery. The project takes its name from …
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Sept. 3: Convocation
… , a grassroots organization that promotes human, economic, and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts, through projects relating to food, agriculture, and the environment. Other scheduled speakers include … President Jonathan Lash, Dean of Students Byron McCrae, and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty …
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Tobin Porter-Brown 05F Helps Grow a New Farm
… 05F . "I figured I was going to have to move far away, and that it was going to take a long time." Hampshire's Farm … Center was a grounding force, providing both nourishment and inspiration, to my academic study. I worked with both the livestock and CSA operations and received a lot of valuable skills and …
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Donna Cohn
… from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and a master's in industrial design from the Rhode Island … the Boston Center for Independent Living as a designer and builder of devices for people with physical disabilities. … design process emphasized collaboration with the end user and the use of low-cost tools and materials. This way of …
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Hampfest: Hampshire on Display
… College's more than 100 clubs gather to present themselves and woo new members. As a student-writer for Hampshire … I've covered the event every year. It's always fun and always fascinating. (What's Wool People? Why is that … close along one wall. Waiting in that line, I turned right and suddenly saw Hampfest. As I said, I've covered Hampfest …
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Henry P. Kendall Foundation Grant Supports 100 Percent Local Food Efforts at Hampshire College
… Hampshire build collaborative networks with local farmers and community agricultural organizations. “As we move forward with the College’s strategic plan, healthy food and sustainability are part and parcel of what we do here,” said Beth Hooker, director of …
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'Movement as an Intervention' with Miriam King
… for schools that would allow me to study both neuroscience and dance. Dancing is how I express myself—I love being able to move and connect with people without verbal communication. I … something beautiful happens when an audience witnesses and then finds meaning in moving bodies, in a shared space, …
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Hampshire College to Host TEDx Event on October 18
… (FPH) on October 18, 2013. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the main lecture hall of FPH. The event is free and open to the public, with limited seating (100 seats). It … takes place each summer in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. On TED.com, talks from TED conferences are shared with the world for …
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Notable Alumni
Flavia Mayrinck Vidal 88F, Chair
… she was director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies and instructor in English and interdisciplinary studies at the Jonathan French … Environment, Sustainability). Her academic interests and scholarship center on postcolonial studies, transnational …
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Professor Emeritus Raymond Coppinger's book, Fishing Dogs
… Raymond Coppinger's book, Fishing Dogs Packing your tackle and wading a river without a trusted fishing dog is a recipe … title is Fishing Dogs: A Guide to the History, Talents, and Training of the Baildale, the Flounderhounder, the Angler Dog, and Sundry Other Breeds of Aquatic Dogs (Canis piscatorius) . …
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Div III Profile: RJ Sakai, Multimedia Designer
… Gorry-Hines 11F RJ Sakai grew up surrounded by design and photography, and developed an interest in their effect on social issues. … As a student at Hampshire College, Sakai studied design and anthropology. He began to make links between graphic …
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Student Innovations Shine at Digital Humanities Showcase
… Imagine using computer mapping, virtual floor plans and 3D renderings to document building a house out of … a program that can sift through thousands of proverbs and learn to compose its own. All of this and much more is happening within the Five College Digital …
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