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Lila Menard 16F

… of the College's nontraditional educational structure for adult students. Lila lives in New York, and is currently enrolled at the CUNY School of Public Health … policy. Their professional interests include health equity and access, especially for trans* communities. Previously, …

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DEAFinitions Conference Draws Hundreds to Celebrate Deaf Culture

… DEAFintions, the weekend of March 24-25, to celebrate and learn about Deaf culture. The event has become important to the Deaf community in Western Massachusetts and beyond. “Deaf people often feel like they live in … event founders have not wavered: 1) to provide a platform for Deaf individuals to come together in the exchange of …

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Response to ICE Ruling

… Response to ICE Ruling Students, Staff, and Faculty, Yesterday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), released a new rule requiring … students and force them to leave the United States for arbitrary reasons. The decision advances no public …

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Gabrielle Hamilton 83F

… Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant and the author of New York Times bestsellers Blood, Bones & Butter and Prune Hamilton is the chef/owner of PRUNE, which she … PBS series Mind of a Chef. Hamilton has written for The New Yorker , The New York Times , GQ , Bon Appetit , …

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President-elect Ed Wingenbach Greeting to Hampshire College

… Ed Wingenbach to a campus gathering of staff, faculty, and students.  Wingenbach was unanimously appointed this … members with these remarks. ED WINGENBACH Thank you all for coming, I guess the first thing I need to do, actually … education is not healthy. I believe that with all my heart and I have always believed that. This should be a quick …

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Michael Lesy Gives Keynote Speech at SPE Regional Conference

… Journalism Michael Lesy was selected as keynote speaker for the 2014 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Midwest regional conference. “Yesterday Today: Photography and the Archive” was the theme of the October 16-18 SPE … Campus. The SPE cites as its mission providing and fostering “an understanding of photography as a means of …

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Five College Connections: Three International Students Take MHC Sisters'’ Recommendation

… Michael Samuels 09F While it's not unheard of for students at one of the Five Colleges to recommend another … to Mount Holyoke. Nadir Khawaja 12F, Nauman Tazeem 12F, and Talha Sabri 12F all heard about Hampshire from their … college. "In March, when I was getting my decisions back and I was deciding where to go, my sister was very keen on me …

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Julia Botero 02S

… of working with the editors of the column, Dan Jones and Miya Lee, to bring the most emotional personal essays to … North Country Public Radio, and produced interviews and news segments with the programs All Things Considered and … of creative writing and feminist literature and art for her Div II. For her Div III, Julia wrote a creative …

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Gould Named New Police Chief

… J. ("Buddy") Gould, Jr., will be the next chief of police for Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges. Gould has served as the director of … a campus police officer at Amherst College (1988-1991), and an officer and sergeant for the Hadley Police Department …

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January 21, 2019: Update from President Nelson

… in touch again, following what has been an unsettling week for many. I understand how disquieting the news has been, about our seeking a long-term partner and the Board’s upcoming decision about whether or not to …

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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 … of the HIV and sexual health course she's led in Thailand for the past two years. "I looked at it as training for

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First All-Campus Address by President Ed Wingenbach: September 3, 2019

… Hampshire College. It gave us the opportunity to save it and that's the work that we have to do now… It'll be a long … “I want to thank everybody—particularly the students—for taking the risk of sticking with us and sticking with Hampshire College, knowing the challenges …

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What Does Empathy Look Like?

… like? The question drives this issue of Non Satis Scire for two reasons. Empathy is all over the news these days, though we won’t attempt to answer why that is, and it’s also on our minds here on campus. In a way, it’s …

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Professors Barskova, Bernstein Win 2015 Gruber Awards

… Win 2015 Gruber Awards Professors Polina Barskova and Herbert Bernstein are the 2015 winners of the Gruber Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising. Each winner receives $10,000 and, in the year …

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First Community Orientation Kicks Off Hampshire’s Fall Semester

… 91F On Monday, August 24, the day before classes started for the fall semester, Hampshire hosted its first community orientation. All students, staff, and faculty were invited to participate in a virtual event … Amherst. She has published widely on social justice and liberation issues such as racism and internalized racism, …

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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 … greatly from the inferences that hearers draw from it. For example, from the metaphor in (1), which literally means …

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Aligning Admissions With Mission

… With Mission Meredith Twombly, Dean of Enrollment and Retention This article originally appeared in the … enrolling too many students who lacked the independence for our unique academic model.      President Lash asked me … to stop asking for SAT and ACT scores. Once we did, U.S. News & World Report dropped us from its rankings. At that …

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Fay Teaches Students the Work Behind the Games They Play

… They Play New assistant professor of computer science and game design Ira Fay has only been on campus for a short while, but word seems to have already gotten … said Fay, who is teaching Introduction to Game Design and Introduction to Game Programming this fall. "I'm excited …

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Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections

… back at how Hampshire's multicultural community has grown and thrived over the years, while also looking ahead to how … "I hope this is nothing less than a sweet inspiration for you going forward," said Ed Dees 71F , one of the alums … the event. According to Killara Burn, director of alumni and family relations, Hampshire of Color happened this year …

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Faculty

Lee Spector

… Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College. His main interests are artificial intelligence and the connections between cognition, computation, and … Spector is also an active editor, reviewer, and organizer for scientific journals and conferences. He recently received …

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Hampshire Alum Daniel José Older to Join Disney’s Rick Riordan Imprint With Two New Young Adult Novels

… Two New Young Adult Novels Amy Diehl Best-selling author and Hampshire College alum Daniel José Older 99F will pen the … that are retellings of myths from around the world,” and Older’s series is the first Young Adult series for the imprint. Older’s first novel in the Outlaw Saints …

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Hampshire Update On Strategic Options: February 23, 2019

… This was a difficult week on campus. Passions are high and nerves are frayed. It’s not surprising that as a … Board is in active communication with the academic deans and faculty leadership to resolve differences and reach an … that would allow us to deliver on Hampshire’s mission for the long term. One intention in announcing in January …

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Kate Nicoloau

… College, Kate enjoys embracing children's creativity and looks for opportunities to incorporate music and movement into the curriculum. Kate has presented along …

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Complexities of Representations of Children

… Katelin Wilton's 05F , it's hard to know where to begin. For her Div III—"'Where there is no water we go to the ocean … Zanzibar navigate NGOs, globalization, identities and politics in search of social and economic support"—Wilton has served as a consultant to …

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Hampshire Student To Attend U.N. Climate Talks in Morocco

… O’Rourke, a Division III student studying climate change and sociology, is one of 13 American youth climate-justice … youth-led organization SustainUS, which advances justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in … Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, opened for signature in 1992 during the Earth Summit in Rio de …

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