Notable Alumni
Manny Castro 02F
… Manny Castro 02F Manny Castro 02F, executive director of the New Immigrant Community Empowerment organization in Queens, NY, was recognized with a $200,000 grant from the David Prize. Castro is the first Mexican-American and first DREAMer to hold the …
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Oct. 6 - 29: Faculty Art Show
… Oct. 6 - 29: Faculty Art Show The Hampshire College Main Gallery will mount its annual Faculty Art Show from October 6 - 29. The 2013 faculty exhibition includes new work by Bill Brand … Ravett (photography), and Daniel Kojo Schrade (painting). The curator for the exhibition is faculty artist S. Billie …
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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves
… Teens to Invest in Themselves "Communicating science to the masses is what I'm really interested in," says Human … August, Dobro was in Rwanda, where she collaborated with the non-profit Global Engagement Institute in a program requested by the country's Ministry of Health to teach infection …
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Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles'
… about finding a straightforward meaning or message in the writing, but about finding how the poem resonates in their body. Poetry's engagement with … consisting of a poetry manuscript and a creative essay. The poetry collection, titled LOST BOYS: poems , is from the …
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Hampshire Student Murphy Hunn Bridges History and Craft through Metalworking
… those things aren’t important, but Hampshire really values the practice of art as well. For your Div II project, you designed and built a bascinet. (The term “bascinet” describes a number of helmets used in Europe during the 14th and 15th centuries). Why bascinets? I think creating …
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Professor Monique Roelofs Awarded a 2015 Curriculum Diversification Grant
… Diversification Grant for her project Theories of the Aesthetic: Rethinking Curricula in Philosophies of the Arts and Culture . The $5,000 grant was awarded by the American Society of …
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Division III Profile: Jonah Taylor's Tech Project Earns Him an Award and a Job
… at PolicyMap, a data and mapping tech startup based at the Reivinvestment Fund in Philadelphia. He describes the internship as "a mixture of design work including user … secured him a job after graduation. Taylor 11S redesigned the organization's software interface and marketing website. …
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Who Helps Survivors?
… For second-year student Amelia Carter, researching the harsh realities of human trafficking involves commitment to the future of those rescued from this appalling, modern-day form of slavery. "I'd like to look at the social services available to the survivors of human …
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Sensenich Examines Native American History and its Absence from U.S. Schools
… what I’d been learning. I started by trying to answer the question, Why is this subject not taught in U.S. schools? … Native American students from colleges all over the country. Some were friends, some peers, and some I met through others. I wanted to hear the stories of students themselves, so I interviewed and …
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From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection
… clippings. Quotes. Phrases heard from a passerby or on the radio. When she's about to begin a new story, she opens the folder up to see what random bit of information might take hold and weave itself into the text. For as long as she can remember, it's been an …
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A Multidisciplinary Examination of Depression
… disciplines are better than one. Her Division III examines the previously unstudied link between the psychological concept of autobiographical memory (AM), the stress-related chemical cortisol, and a mutation of the …
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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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