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Interweaving Women's Health Education into Traditional Cultures

… Women's Health Education into Traditional Cultures The second-year student immigrated with her family from Tibet … and women’s rights has roots in her own life experiences. The second-year student immigrated with her family to Nepal … to school in Tibet,” she says. “In Nepal, I started in the second grade, and they said I belonged in the seventh …

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Rebecca Thomas Earns Fulbright Award to Teach in Ecuador

… alum Rebecca Thomas has earned a Fulbright Award from the U.S. Student Program, the nation's largest exchange program, to teach in Ecuador as … teachers. Currently she is a senior program assistant at the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, in …

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March 13: Cindy Kleine Screens "André Gregory: Before and After Dinner"

… , at Hampshire College on Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in the Brand Screening Room of the Liebling Center. The screening is free and open to the public. Following the

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October 11: Trek Nation Screening, Q and A with Rod Roddenberry 92F

… Executive producer Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry—son of the legendary Gene Roddenberry—will screen Trek Nation at … 92F will participate in a question-and-answer session with the audience following the screening. He is an alumnus of Hampshire College, where …

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Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference To Be Held March 2-3

… Conference To Be Held March 2-3 Hampshire will host the 9th-Annual Five College Queer Gender & Sexuality … activist, cultural worker, writer, and lecturer. The event is free, but registration is required . The conference is intended as a space for engaging, learning, …

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Alice Petty 89F Joins Hampshire Board as Alumni Trustee

… Board as Alumni Trustee At its meeting last week, the Hampshire College Board of Trustees affirmed a motion presented by the Committee on Trusteeship and Governance to appoint Alice Petty 89F to the Board as Alumni Trustee. Her four-year term begins July …

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Hampshire College Alums Divad Durant and Hira Nabi Featured in "The Nation"

… College Alums Divad Durant and Hira Nabi Featured in "The Nation" Amy Diehl Hampshire College alums Divad Durant … 05F and Hira Nabi 07F both recently published essays in The Nation as part of the ongoing series Scenes from a Pandemic . Alum Divad …

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A. Kim Saal 70F

… 2014 he was named president and chief executive officer of the Cooley Dickinson Physician Network at Cooley Dickinson … at Harvard Medical School, where he was recipient of the Blacklow teaching award for his work educating medical … and hospital staff. He was also recognized as teacher of the year at Mount Auburn Hospital. As a physician leader, he …

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Professor Emeritus Raymond Coppinger's book, Fishing Dogs

… in February. Its full title is Fishing Dogs: A Guide to the History, Talents, and Training of the Baildale, the Flounderhounder, the Angler Dog, and Sundry Other Breeds …

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Unpacking Uber

… but Hampshire College student Edward Ongweso Jr S19 sees the “global juggernaut of the ridesharing industry” in a far more sinister light. Uber, … feudalism.” In his Div III, “Ritual Sacrifice in the 21st Century: Notes on Labor, Uber, and Capitalist Social …

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Student Innovations Shine at Digital Humanities Showcase

… its own. All of this and much more is happening within the Five College Digital Humanities (5CollDH) program. Students from each of the five campuses will present their work on these and other projects at the first-ever Digital Humanities Student Symposium Friday, …

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Five College Connections: Three International Students Take MHC Sisters'’ Recommendation

… 09F While it's not unheard of for students at one of the Five Colleges to recommend another to younger siblings, … Hampshire from their sisters, three friends who met at the nearby women's college. "In March, when I was getting my … this spring. After taking classes at Hampshire through the Five College consortium , she thought that Hampshire …

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Studying Interdisciplinarity in Arts Education . . . Interdisciplinarily

… Black Mountain College, Josef Albers, Color, and the Didactic Art Exhibit is actually made up of three related projects, addressing both the theory and the practice of teaching art. For theory, Beggs wrote a …

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Hampshire Brings Choice to an Increasingly Conformist Higher Education Landscape

… and rigid institutions; and turn out graduates with the kind of creativity employers want and need,” wrote … others about Hampshire’s past, present, and big plans for the future. “There is an ethos around Hampshire that attracts … but also interested in dramatic change. They want to make the world better,” Wingenbach said. He added that students …

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Dana Pollan's Family Cookbook Encourages Healthy Eating

… they decided to collaborate on a book, which became The Pollan Family Table. This was the first cookbook the Pollans have written together. The process involved a lot …

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Art meets science in alum's artworks, ventures

… launched nonprofit ventures cultivating partnerships among the science and art communities in the Northeast and nationwide. As a Hampshire student, … series—in New York City and Baltimore. She also founded the online, science-based art magazine, SciArt in America. …

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March 5: Author and Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald

… on Tuesday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m. at Hampshire College. The talk, which will be held in Franklin Patterson Hall (Main Lecture Hall), is open to the public and free of charge. Greenwald will speak briefly, … on civil liberties and U.S. national security issues for the Guardian. He writes critically and powerfully about the

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Josiah Mardell

… (English), 2017   Although he feels like he’s been in the field of education his whole life, (largely due to the fact that it is the field of both his parents, both his grandmother’s, and …

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Hampshire Alum Christina Quarles 04F and Author Maggie Nelson Discuss Creative Life in Artforum

… | Writers On Artists” brings together luminaries in the fields of art and literature to have the conversations they themselves wish to have. This monthly … her book On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint . The book explores questions and complexities of freedom in …

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NNAF Names Vanguard Award for Marlene Gerber Fried

… and commitment to reproductive freedom that laid the groundwork for expanding abortion access for all,” said … took an idea, that everyone should have access to the reproductive health care they need, and grew it into a movement of people all around the country who step up every day to make abortion access a …

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Anacapa Society

… Hampshire professor Herb Bernstein is a co-founder of the Anacapa Society , a new national organization of … grant to Bernstein and Hampshire College supported the first workshop of the Anacapa Society, held in summer 2009 in Amherst, …

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Sander Thoenes Research Award for Janina Glasov 09F

… 09F has been awarded a Sander Thoenes Research Award. The Thoenes Awards support fieldwork and research costs … in completion of recipients' Division III projects, the senior thesis required of all students for graduation from Hampshire College. The award, which honors the memory of Sander Thoenes 87F , …

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Div III Profile: Anita Fuentes Gutierrez On Racism, Reality TV

… Fuentes Gutierrez’s Division III capstone digs deep into the format, examining Los Gipsy Kings , a popular Spanish … to one million Roma in Spain. They first arrived in the early 15th century, and have frequently been the target of persecution. Since the death of the dictator …

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School of Cognitive Science Div III Presentations

… School of Cognitive Science Div III Presentations The School of Cognitive Science Division III Fair, ASH … Gray Squirrels 9:45 a.m. Emma C. Lewin Opitz Title: The Evolutionary Relationship between Speech and Music: … A Collection of Professional Development Workshops for The Field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages …

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Phyllotaxis Dynamics

… Phyllotaxis Dynamics The arrangement of leaves on a stem, wrapped tightly in intricate spiral patterns as the plant develops, can seem a random thing. It isn't. The phenomenon even has a name. Phyllotaxis. Luke Grecki …

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