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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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Bernstein's Theory to be Tested on Space Station

… scheme more than a decade ago in his investigations of different ways to send a quantum state from one part of a laboratory to a remote station. Listen to interview on … New England Public Radio Professor Bernstein is now part of a team of experimental quantum mechanics investigators, …

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Andrew Figueroa's "Mixed-Race Mixtape"

… taking it on the road. As the primary writer and performer of Mixed-Race Mixtape, Figueroa has been refining the piece since he first performed it as part of his Div III project in October. “For my Div III, I wrote … multicultural household,” he says. “It’s a fusion of live instrumental hip hop, movement, spoken word, rap, and …

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2013 Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching

… Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching Professor of Ecology Charlene D'Avanzo and Assistant Professor of Mathematics Sarah Hews were chosen as recipients of the 2013 David Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising …

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Sri Lankan Writer and Hampshire Alum Kanya D'Almeida 06F Shortlisted for 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

… to a global audience. The 2021  shortlist is comprised of only 25 writers from over 50 countries, out of  a total of over 6,000 entries.   While at Hampshire College, …

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Geremías Polanco Encarnación

… Geremías Polanco Encarnación, assistant professor of mathematics, holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and an M.S. in … at Illinois Wesleyan University, and is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His passion is to understand …

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Students in Game Course Seek to Publish New Game in Four Months

… game studio. This semester, 19 students with a range of gaming skills, from beginner to experienced, are joined … The Princeton Review and PC Gamer ranked Hampshire one of the 10 top Game Design undergrad programs in the country … games, players control their characters through a set of static background scenes and interactions with non-player …

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Three Hampshire Alums Receive Nonprofit Excellence Award

… and inspired the community to welcome the newest members of their Village. What started with one neighbor supporting … in Huntington, MA that has distributed over $600,000 worth of free maternity, infant, and children's clothing and gear, … Education Program with drop-in support groups and a series of free educational workshops for parents. "I want to thank …

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HampFest Showcases Student Groups

… participated this year. Crowds swarmed between neat rows of tables. Enthusiastic conversation hummed in the air, accompanied by the thumping bass of music. Colorful painted signs rose up over the sea of students, pointing out the various types of groups — music …

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For His Div III, Armon Walker 17F Leads a Collaborative Game Design Team to Create the Iaijutsu Project

… producer and project manager for an interdisciplinary team of five creating a 2D action-platformer game (a video game … to talk about why he chose Hampshire, his favorite facets of game design, and the work he hopes to do after he rings … was applying to colleges and found that Hampshire was one of the top schools for that area of study, but unlike some of

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Rayane Moreira

… Rayane Moreira Rayane Moreira, associate professor of organic chemistry, received her B.A. from Wellesley … Her postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on the synthesis and study of metalloenzyme mimics. Her research interests include …

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Lourdes Mattei

… Lourdes Mattei Lourdes Mattei, associate professor emerita of clinical psychology, received her undergraduate degree from the University of Puerto Rico and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has worked for many years as a …

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Brian Schultz

… Brian Schultz Brian Schultz, associate professor emeritus of ecology and entomology, received a B.S. in zoology, an … in biology, and a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Michigan. An agricultural ecologist and entomologist who … Hampshire College Farm Center, Schultz has spent a number of years in Central America and the Caribbean studying …

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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F

… Give Kamil Peters 06F an oxyacetylene torch and a piece of discarded steel, and you'll soon find art where scrap … was his medium. In the years since, Peters' understanding of the craft has deepened exponentially. In the summer of 2007, he completed an internship with Charles "Wink" …

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Students Urged to Vaccinate for Meningococcal Disease Serogroup B

… have developed Serogroup B Meningococcal disease as of November 28, 2017. This is a life-threatening infection that can result in meningitis — swelling of the covering of the brain and spinal cord — and bloodstream infection. …

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Notable Alumni

Ian Spalter 94F

… 94F Ian Spalter 94F Ian Spalter 94F has been named one of Forbes ’ most creative people, and has held UX and design … such as Foursquare and YouTube. Currently, he is head of Instagram Japan Spalter is no stranger to accolades; he has been named one of Fast Company ’s 100 most creative people and has held UX …

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Photos from TEDxHampshireCollege

… and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka; executive director of the National Priorities Project Jo Comerford; Hampshire … Andrew Stachiw 06F and Brian Van Slyke 06F, co-creators of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, and founding members of the worker-owned …

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Rehamping the Barn: Photos and Video

… and her Rehamping the Barn class took on the next stage of the project . Over the course of a week, beginning November 15, 2013, students and staff … furniture for the Roos Rohde House, all as a continuation of the Rehamping project. Beginning: End: View a …

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Board Member

Jesús A. Colmenares 03F

… and Risk Management Jesús Colmenares joined the Board of Trustees in 2017. He is currently a Business Development … at HealthCore. In this capacity he leads the development of large, complex proposals to various government agencies (Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Center for Disease …

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David Matheson P11, P13

… 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 … part-time basis. He also consults individually to a number of health care and educational institutions, including …

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Notable Alumni

Jeff Ritter 78F P14

… P14 I have been in education for a long time and a part of ‘alternative education’ since the first time I was exposed … with Mennonites), archaeology (a dig in the Anasazi areas of Colorado), ecology studies (Everglades, Big Bend, New … and more led directly to Hampshire. Growing enamored of higher education teaching by gleaning the lovely lives led …

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