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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves

… Dobro. "How do you take complex molecular biology topics and make people care about them, understand them, and make behavior changes because of that knowledge?" In … country's Ministry of Health to teach infection prevention and control in hospitals. She worked with science faculty …

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Hampshire Places High In National RecycleMania Tournament

… national RecycleMania Tournament, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction … period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected …

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Aligning Admissions With Mission

… With Mission Meredith Twombly, Dean of Enrollment and Retention This article originally appeared in the … at Hampshire College, rebels against lectures and passive learning, champions of self-designed majors and project-based learning, had let down our guard and were …

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Notable Alumni

Sarah Goldfinger 94F

… 94F Sarah Goldfinger 94F Sarah Goldfinger is a producer and writer on television shows such as Brothers & Sisters , Hawaii Five-0 , Grimm , and Jane the Virgin Sarah Goldfinger graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A. in creative writing and literature in 1998.  After graduating, she became the …

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Hampshire College's Climate Justice League Attends Students for Just & Stable Future Conference

… Climate Justice League attended the Students for a Just and Stable Future conference and networking retreat in Worcester, MA. The weekend soon became more than we had ever expected, and we left with many new friends and resources to help our …

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Div III Profile: Suhilah Booker Studies Benefits of Movement to Early Learners

… thesis on integrating movement in education — and an example of a student making the most of Hampshire’s … verbalizing their understanding of concepts would open up and engage more,” she says. “After that, I read an article by … F. Johnson Library, Booker pored through academic articles and studied concepts such as Laban’s movement analysis and

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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming

… Wessler 03F is based on his reporting, “ Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside … the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing video chat recordings and news footage, he exposes the dire situation detainees … two detainees, a Colombian asylum-seeker Andrea Manrique and Barahona-Marriaga, an immigrant from Honduras. “I thought …

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Unpacking Uber

… Sacrifice in the 21st Century: Notes on Labor, Uber, and Capitalist Social Control,” Ongweso writes that Uber’s … says. “Its goal is to dominate the transportation market and then replace human drivers with self-driving cars.” … Div III is a multi-perspective analysis at the local and global political and economic processes, historical and

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Sept. 6-8: Five College New Music Festival at UMass Fine Arts Center

… It's a musical form that's thriving in the campuses and small cities of western Massachusetts, where it will be … Hall in Amherst, September 6 - 8. The festival is free and open to the public. New music emerged in the first half … details and other information can be found at www.5cnmf.com . For more information, contact Kevin Kennedy, …

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Division III Profile: Support Structures for First-Generation College Students

… it was really hard to keep up — both academically and socially. The diction used in the classrooms was way … it. My professor, Dean of Multicultural Education and Inclusion Kristen Luschen, had also been a first-generation student, and we got together and talked about what it would be like if …

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Students, Professors Present Research at National Ecological Conference

… Joshua Murray When Professors Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews were designing the Integrated Sciences … the program's research. Along with Professors Jason Tor and Seeta Sistla, they spent the past year guiding their … research spanning mathematics, hydrology, ecology, and microbiology using the R.W. Kern Center as the object of …

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Div III Participates in Harvard Linguistics Colloquium

… work from his Div III thesis, entitled "The Nature and Process of Metaphorical Interpretation." In it, he synthesizes research in philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory in order to present an original analysis … of his Div III thesis both to Harvard's colloquium and to the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics …

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No to SATs/ACTs: Not Even Optional at Hampshire College

… SAT or ACT scores in any way as part of admissions and financial aid decisions. Hampshire was among the first … No longer, says Meredith Twombly, dean of admissions and financial aid. Hampshire's "Test blind" decision reflects … It is also consistent with Hampshire's mission and academic approach. The tests more accurately reflect …

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November 1: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by Michelle Alexander

… Ahmad Lecture by Michelle Alexander Civil rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow … Colorblindness," will be held in the Robert Crown Center and is free and open to the public. The New Jim Crow received the NAACP …

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Notable Alumni

Doug Plotkin 80F

… at various top tier firms including IBM, PA Consulting, and Deloitte Consulting for some 30 years, focusing on IT Strategy and complex contract negotiations. After this long stint of … 80% of the time, landing in three different cities a week and frequently forgetting where he was he was when he woke up …

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Exhibit by photographer using 19th century processes opens at Hampshire Model gallery

… featuring Mary Frey’s photographs of taxidermied animals and forensic facial reconstructions, captured using two … Ambrotypes, familiar from Civil War era portraits, and lithophanes, images cast in translucent porcelain. Frey … in this exhibit invite reflection on loss, presence and questions of life and death. The objects she creates – …

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Award-Winning Author Claudia Rankine to Deliver Race Matters Lecture at Hampshire

… Deliver Race Matters Lecture at Hampshire Esteemed author and poet Claudia Rankine, whose 2014 New York Times … Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the NAACP Image Award, and as finalist for the National Book Award. Rankine is the … of the President, Dean of Faculty, Dean of Students, and Diversity and Multicultural Education. The event is free …

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Faculty

Marlene Fried

… Interim President of Hampshire College. Her scholarship and teaching is focused primarily on abortion rights and access, reproductive and sexual rights and health, and legal theory. She edited …

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Christopher Perry

… Christopher Perry Chris Perry holds an M.S. in media arts and sciences from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His B.A., in physics and astronomy, is from Amherst College. His primary interests …

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Board Member

Jesús A. Colmenares 03F

… Jesús A. Colmenares 03F Jesús A. Colmenares 03F Chair Audit and Risk Management Jesús Colmenares joined the Board of … Center for Disease Control), academic institutions, and life sciences companies. Jesús has experience in government and pharmaceutical proposal management; government, private, …

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A Multidisciplinary Examination of Depression

… memory (AM), the stress-related chemical cortisol, and a mutation of the genetic region 5-HTTLPR in people with depression and stress disorders. "5-HTTLPR, cortisol levels, and stressful life events have all been studied together and

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Hampshire Writing Program To Host Award-Winning Author Helen Benedict for Public Reading

… Award-winning nonfiction writer, novelist, playwright and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, Helen … The reading will be followed by a Q&A, book signing and reception.  The event is open to the public. Benedict … College Helen Benedict website: https://www.helenbenedict.com   Campus Revitalization and

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Interweaving Women's Health Education into Traditional Cultures

… Tibet to Nepal before they finally settled in Brooklyn, and faced dramatic cultural upheavals with each move. Chemi Chemi’s interest in public policy and women’s rights has roots in her own life experiences. The … Nepal from Tibet before they finally settled in Brooklyn, and faced dramatic cultural upheavals with each move. "I had …

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Div III Profile: Will Meyer Examines the Future of Journalism

… his eyes, still a work in progress. “I think I could go in and spend an additional semester on it. It’s still in its … to my Division III was a whole circuitous maze of twists and turns,” he says. “I started studying Occupy Wall Street, education policy, and farming. It was all over the map, until the last semester …

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Alex Emmanuele 12F: Challenging the Status Quo

… by the College’s decision to become “test blind,” with SAT and ACT scores no longer considered in admissions and financial aid decisions. While that was an important … need a way to show who they are, what they’ve done, and why they want to be here.” This past August, Emmanuele …

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