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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F
… Peters 06F Give Kamil Peters 06F an oxyacetylene torch and a piece of discarded steel, and you'll soon find art where scrap metal used to be. Even … medium. I had initially come here for sustainable living and architecture. I'd tried jewelry, pen and ink, pastels, …
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Hampshire College Welcomes First Non-Human Scholars-In-Residence
… arrived from Carolina Biological Supply last month, and have moved into a dedicated office in the Cole Science … intellectual life on campus by helping us all think about and see the world without our normal human biases." The … on the planet," notes Hampshire biology professor and principle investigator Megan Dobro. Their optimization …
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Hampshire College Alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F Wins the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
… College alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F, a Sri Lankan writer and journalist, is the 2021 winner of the Commonwealth Short … international award given annually to promote talented new and emerging voices and bring them to a global audience. D’Almeida is the first …
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Notable Alumni
Naomi Wallace 78F
… Naomi Wallace 78F Naomi Wallace 78F Obie Award–winner and MacArthur Fellow Naomi Wallace is a playwright and screenwriter whose work includes Slaughter City and One Flea Spare Naomi Wallace is a playwright from …
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'Shift' - An Animated Film
… evolving into a new form - a natural environment of trees and water and clouds - in a cycle of reclamation. Color values move fluidly from the subtle and minimalist to vibrant and sharp, creating the contrast …
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Hampshire Wins International Campus Sustainability Achievement Award for R.W. Kern Center
… Awards: Hampshire, Emory University in Georgia, and Bow Valley College in Alberta, Canada. AASHE will present the awards to Hampshire and all winners on Oct. 2 at its annual AASHE Conference & … AASHE bestows its prestigious awards on institutions and individuals internationally that are helping to lead …
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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 … she says, “so I took Professor Joanna Morris’s Brain and Cognition as my first-year tutorial.” She was fascinated … to that in a way that wasn’t formulaic,” she says, “and I’d never taken a science class where we read all primary …
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'Anything by Itself, Hitched to Everything Else in the Universe'
… III Project: The Ecology of Symbioses Between Grasses and Endophytic Fungi Faculty advisers: Professor Seeta Sistla … about the webs around me that shape their ecosystems, and every time I answer one question, I think of another. … you still don't know everything. It's constantly evolving, and it forces you to evolve with it. The past two summers …
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Eula Biss 95F’s Newest Book Examines the Author’s Uneasy Relationship with Capitalism
… the Author’s Uneasy Relationship with Capitalism Writer and Hampshire College alum Eula Biss 95F is known for using … or our relationship to science. In her newest book Having and Being Had , Biss takes that same personal approach to examine themes of capitalism and privilege. Biss was interviewed by the Financial Times …
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Jeff Sharlet 90F
… Award for Reporting in 2015. Among his books are C Street and The Family Jeff Sharlet is the author of Sweet Heaven When I Die and The Family , and other bestsellers. Jeff Sharlet is the nationally …
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A. Kim Saal 70F
… A. Kim Saal 70F A. Kim Saal 70F Kim Saal is president and CEO of the Cooley Dickinson Physician Network and former cardiology chief at Mount Auburn Hospital In … providing clinical care, Kim has been a teacher, mentor, and clinical coach. He held a faculty appointment at Harvard …
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Congratulations, Lupita Nyong'o 03F on your Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
… as a post-production intern on The Namesake (2006), and an art intern on Where God Left His Shoes (2007). After … for the song Little Things We Do , by Kenyan musician Wahu and Ugandan musician Bobi Wine. It won Best Video at the 2009 … New York African Film Festival hosted by Smith College, and was screened both at Hampshire and Five College neighbor …
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BESSIE Recipient Karinne Keithley 92F: "Stick with it."
… 92F was recently honored with a 2011 New York Dance and Performance Award, commonly known as a BESSIE award. The … Combining elements of opera, radio play, light projection, and movement, Montgomery Park speaks to Keithley's diverse … her interests include sound composition, animation, and video production. She also does a ukulele cover act, and …
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Welcome, Hampshire College Entering Class of 2012!
… 440 new students to campus—368 first years, 54 transfers, and 18 visiting and non-degree students. The new students include 12 James … entering class of fall 2012 comes from 37 states and 15 countries. Nineteen percent are students of color and …
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Alum Robin Coste Lewis Wins National Book Award for Poetry
… her collection of poems that considers the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self, and questions where, historically, do ideas about the black … for her teachers, including professors Nina Payne and Andrew Salkey, whom Lewis worked with at Hampshire. She …
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Sander Thoenes Research Award Recipients Announced
… Gaydos, Rachel Ithen, Martha Pskowski, Maiwenn Raoult, and Roberto Rodriguez are recipients of the 2012 Sander … independent. His death drew international attention, and then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan released … saying, in part: "It is largely thanks to the courage and determination of men and women like Sander that crimes …
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Lesy Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
… through the 1920s. They were sold in "Tours of the World" and "Educational Series" sets, with hand-held stereo viewers and teachers' guides. Every view had a caption on its front and a narrative on its back. Working with the 500,000 images …
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Solving Email Overload
… would notify him whenever he received a Facebook email, and also would allow him to view messages in those emails … could be applied generally to all email, a way to organize and filter messages and streamline viewing. The solution was Inboxmgr. For his …
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David Matheson P11, P13
… Concord, Massachusetts David Matheson was vice president and senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group, where his work focused on the integration of health care and technology; since his retirement, he continues to work … He also consults individually to a number of health care and educational institutions, including Partners in Health …
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Amy Jordan
… has conducted oral histories with welfare rights activists and small farmers in Mississippi, and has conducted workshops on the history of anti-poverty and welfare rights activism. Her essay, "Fighting for the …
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Ellen Donkin
… from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in theatre history from the University of … She has taught in the drama department of Franklin and Marshall College and at the University of Washington. Her special areas of …
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Alice Petty 89F Joins Hampshire Board as Alumni Trustee
… a motion presented by the Committee on Trusteeship and Governance to appoint Alice Petty 89F to the Board as … for Hampshire, writing postcards to accepted students, and serving as co-chair of the Bay Area Alumni Circle. Alice … at Stanford University as academic program director and coordinator. In her position, Alice creates and develops …
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Angela Bardawil, LICSW
… her master's at Smith College School for Social Work and has continued to practice psychodynamic, … Angela is especially committed to issues of personal and cultural identity and to maintaining gains made in psychotherapy over time. She …
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Rachael Goren-Watts, Psy. D
… in college health/mental health settings since 2004, and has also worked with learning disabilities and assessment services for children and adolescents, as well as eating disorders. Rachael's …
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Hampshire College Installation Presents GPS For Birds Disoriented by Climate Change
… technologies, including urban camouflage for reptiles and fiber optics for corals. "Over the past century, … interested in the innovations of other species, and adapting them to serve human needs," says Mr. Keats. … commonplace." Velcro is based on thistles, for example, and the beak of the kingfisher provides just the right …
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