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Professor's Novel Nominated for Man Asian Literary Prize
… Prize Professor Uzma Aslam Khan has been nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize, Asia's top literary award, for … Than Skin is Professor Khan's fourth novel. It tells the story of Nadir, a photographer from Karachi who lives in … who is Pakistani-American. "He is hoping to be inspired by the landscape. She's hoping to connect to a country she never …
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Hampshire College Student Awarded Dance Scholarship
… annually to students for their valuable contributions to the Five College Dance Department's (FCDD) programs and … has performed in FCDD faculty concerts annually for the last three years and she choreographed and performed for the Hampshire Winter Dance Concert 2014," said Jim Coleman, …
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April 2, 2019: Statement from Trustees Kim Saal 70F and Fraser Beede
… of then Board Chair Gaye Hill. Trust is essential to the integrity and functioning of any Board. The Board expects the highest level of conduct and confidentiality from …
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Faculty
Lawrence J. Winship
… He continued his research on nitrogen fixation at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University, where he investigated the energy cost of nitrogen fixation by nodulated woody … alders. His recent research and teaching interests include the biophysics of gas diffusion into and out of root nodules …
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CIEL Conference Presentation on Hampshire Admissions Strategy
… mission-driven admissions strategy was presented at the national conference of the Consortium for Innovative Environments in Learning … new recruitment and enrollment approaches, including the recent decision to go “test-blind” and no longer consider …
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Faculty
Neil Stillings
… a B.A. from Amherst College. Professor Stillings has been the principal investigator for two major National Science … cognitive science education. He is senior coauthor of the 1987 and 1995 editions of Cognitive Science: An Introduction, the first undergraduate textbook in the field. Professor …
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President’s Letter on Plans for Hampshire’s Future
… Hampshire submitted our progress report to our accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). Hampshire remains a fully accredited college. The progress report was requested by the Commission after the events of last spring to demonstrate …
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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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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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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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Staff
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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