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Students Win Health Literacy Hackathon

… Win Health Literacy Hackathon Michael Samuels 09F A team of Hampshire students—Zeke Nierenberg 09F, Kira McCoy 09F, … . The Hackathon, held October 13 and 14 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was sponsored by CommunicateHealth … accessible to everyone." For twelve hours, six teams of technology developers and programmers, public health …

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Hampshire Alums D'Aloia and Cantwell Return to Talk Business

… to speak to a class led by Bret Golann 71F, coordinator of the College’s Entrepreneurship Program. Cantwell 74F is one of the most prominent voices in the craft-beer movement, an author, and cofounder of the Elysian Brewing Company. D’Aloia 83F, a lawyer, is the …

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Fall Internship Dinner 2013

… Dinner 2013 Dineen O'Rourke 13F "This is truly one of my favorite events of the year," said Hampshire President Jonathan Lash, warmly … The dinner, held in the Red Barn on the first day of October, was bursting with excitement as students filed …

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When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

… — White Women for Trump: Rethinking Liberal Understandings of Women’s Self-Interests — came to Brochu in her high school … voted for Trump also but that a majority — 53 percent of them — had chosen him. The class, taught by Will Ryan, codirector of the Writing Center and a faculty associate in the School …

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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves

… them, understand them, and make behavior changes because of that knowledge?" In August, Dobro was in Rwanda, where she … Institute in a program requested by the country's Ministry of Health to teach infection prevention and control in … said her primary  goal was to increase the effectiveness of the HIV and sexual health course she's led in Thailand for …

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Ellie Siegel

… visiting scholar in discourse studies at the University of Amsterdam. As co-director of The Writing Program, she is one of three faculty who run the College’s across the curriculum …

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April 23: Earth Week Event at Hampshire College

… a panel discussion with President Jonathan Lash, Professor of Development Studies Betsy Hartmann, and Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare. The event … admission is free. The panel will discuss implications of the Report of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental …

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Research Begun in Div III Featured on Journal Cover

… on the plants. And he has now achieved the rare feat of publishing his undergraduate research, as a cover story no … stay in the bat’s system results in a quicker dispersal of the seeds, via defecation by the bat, and  changes the seeds’ chances of survival. This suggests that spiciness in fruits may not …

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For Appa Salvi, Faculty Mentors led to Dream Internship

… 13S recently completed an internship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and credits his … with supportive faculty guiding him across a diverse set of studies: “I feel I wouldn’t have been able to get into that internship without the help of Hampshire faculty,” he said. “It’s competitive, and they …

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‘'Trans-Asia Photography Review’'

… the journal, she wanted both to recognize the rich history of nonwestern photography and to explore exciting … from the region. TAP Review has built a strong community of scholars and artists with interests in Asian photography, … fall. The fifth, built around the theme "The Aftereffects of War in Asia: Histories, Pictures, and Anxieties," just …

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Taking a Deep Dive into Dolphin Communication

… to narrow them down to a specific major after just a year of college. The Five College Consortium also offers many … Dr. Laela Sayigh and Dr. Sarah Partan [both professors of animal behavior] on a trip to Chilean Patagonia to study … taking Cetacean Communication with Dr. Sayigh, at the end of my Div II, the potential of a stranding alert system was …

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Alum Matt Hinderhofer 17F Researching Type-I Diabetes at Harvard

… Recent graduate, Matt Hinderhofer 17F studied the effects of CBD on colorectal cancer cells while a student at … was your Div III? For my Div III, I studied the effects of CBD on colorectal cancer cells. They were HCT-116 cells … throughout the year, and I treated them with various doses of cannabidiol or CBD. Then I did apoptosis assays on them …

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Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F Interviewed on PBS NewsHour Regarding Black Patients’ Struggle for Equal Access

… on PBS NewsHour around the medical field’s long history of discrimination and abuse against Black patients and how … magnified during the pandemic. Gamble is a professor of medical humanities at George Washington University and an internationally recognized expert on the history of race and American medicine, racial and ethnic disparities …

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Library Opens New Academic-Services Facility for Students

… in 2013. The plan to integrate the College’s full range of academic services informed the design of the Knowledge Commons. Throughout spring and summer 2017, Hampshire undertook renovations of the first-floor space. The facility contains: a classroom …

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Gifts Support "“Bridge to College”"

… Charitable Foundation have each given $2,500 in support of Hampshire College's Hampshire Youth Connect "bridge to … Paul McCraven 74F , First Niagara's senior vice president of community development. Hampshire Youth Connect, begun as a pilot program in the summer of 2011 through the support of community and social justice …

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Culture, Brain & Development Program Spring 2019 Student Grant Awards

… to seven students. The grantees represent many fields of study and range from second year students to those … will conduct reseach at Hampshire under the guidance of a faculty mentor, and some will go farther afield, working … provide much-needed financial support for the completion of student projects, covering costs related to film, …

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Div III Profile: Hampshire’s Phuong Leverages Five Colleges for Advanced Engineering Studies

… earned her acceptance into a PhD program at the University of California San Diego. Phuong, a Vietnamese native, … data,” she says. “Utilizing photon transfer is one of the solutions for this problem: it requires very little … distance. The SNSPDs can detect when there’s a presence of photons — therefore, data encrypted in the form of photons …

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Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students

… August 20, we were thrilled to welcome 119 new students. Of this group, 79 are first-years and 40 are transfers. … 30 deferred their start to the spring or fall semester of 2021. After weeks of intense heat, clear blue skies and temps in the low 80s …

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Merle S. Bruno

… Merle S. Bruno Merle S. Bruno, professor emerita of biology, holds a B.A. from Syracuse University and an M.A. … education. Programs that promote interest in science of middle school girls and minority students are particular interests. She has served as dean of natural science and acting dean of the faculty at …

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Women's Cross Country Team Wins Conference Championship and Places First-Ever Individual Champion

… result, with their best-ever finish since the start of the cross country program at Hampshire in 2006. Hampshire … team, with Wagner winning the Women's Runner of the Year award.   For the men’s team, the top three … named all-conference.   Head Coach Eric Nazar won Coach of the Year for the success of the women’s team. Nazar is …

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Page to Stage

… Page to Stage "The creativity is theirs," says Elly Donkin of her acting and playwriting students, "but with the security of having someone behind them, standing guard over the technical details." For this professor of theatre, few things are more moving than watching students …

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Students Present at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

… science professor Lee Spector was pleased to have so many of his students join him in presenting there. Kwaku Yeboah … Spector leads the group, which focuses on a specific type of artificial intelligence and also includes doctoral … students from Five College campus UMass Amherst (two of whom also participated at GECCO). Spector is also a member …

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William Null 72F

… Null 72F Sleepy Hollow, New York William Null is one of two elected alumni trustees. He is the managing partner of Cuddy & Feder LLP, one of the Hudson Valley's leading law firms. Bill has been lead …

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Karla Zarate-Ramirez 92F P16

… for over 19 years and is currently an executive director of development at the University of Hawaii Foundation, where she works closely with the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Sciences.  She …

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President's Letter on Proposed Student Experience Models

… College Community, It’s been five weeks since the Launch of our community work to define a bold vision for the future of our student experience and reestablish Hampshire as the … future. Our community has stepped up with historic levels of support for Hampshire this year as we begin to rebuild to …

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