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Josiah Mardell

… is the field of both his parents, both his grandmother’s, and several aunts, uncles, and cousins) he formally started his career at Federal Hill … in the summer of 2015.  For the rest of his time at UMass (and during summers) he considered himself an honorary …

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Hampshire Art Professor Nominated for "World's Largest Children's Literature Award"

… paintings, wall-sized silhouettes, sculptures, and embroideries, surrounding the tools of her craft: brushes, paint, cloth, clay, embroidery thread, and other raw materials. “I try to model different ways artists work in the real world, and create a sustainable practice where one work turns into …

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Carol Varney Elected Alumni Trustee

… executive director of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)—and her experiences as a first-generation college student—to … Project, SPACE Gallery, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Camden International Film Festival. Serving at Hampshire, and collaborating with others who share her passion for the …

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Professor Susan Darlington's "The Ordination of a Tree"

… in Thailand that aims to reverse environmental degradation and unsustainable economic development through ordination of … to the country's unsustainable economic development and consumerism, and the environmental degradation it causes. At the center of …

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Students Win Health Literacy Hackathon

… Nierenberg 09F, Kira McCoy 09F, Jamie Matheson 11F, and Amit Ringel 08F—won first prize in the inaugural Health Literacy Hackathon . The Hackathon, held October 13 and 14 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was … sponsored by CommunicateHealth Inc. , a health education and communication firm based in Northampton. "The challenge …

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Aimee Aubin’'s Division III is a “Gift”

… Like a Nice Warm Bath , explores womanhood through plays and short stories. "They collectively deal with themes of … with food, women's bodies, childbearing, motherhood, and aging," she says. Part of the project's inspiration was a … women of different racial, socio-economic, religious and sexual backgrounds and orientations. The women talked …

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Hampshire Social Justice Summer Program a Model for MSU Initiative

… was approached by her school’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. R. Gregory Dunaway, about launching a … to develop a plan for the program to pitch to faculty and others who would need to support it.  So Dennis searched … Social Justice, a four-week intensive on the study and practice of creating social change, led by a group of …

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Hampshire Professor Blair McLaughlin Awarded Whiting Foundation Grant to Study Tree Conservation Genetics

… Foundation grant to study tree conservation genetics and adaptation to climate change at the National Tropical … the Whiting grant, McLaughlin plans to expand her research and conservation work from temperate to tropical ecosystems. … McLaughlin anticipates improving her current introductory and advanced ecology courses, as they cover tropical ecology; …

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Announcing the Reappointment of President Ed Wingenbach

… by interviews with senior leadership, faculty, staff, and students. Since joining the College in 2019, President … restructured the operating budget, working collaboratively and transparently with faculty and staff to meet expense targets; oversaw the successful …

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Jamie Citron 01F

… 01F Jamie Citron 01F Former Obama White House staff member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama … Citron 01F serves as deputy assistant to the President and principal deputy director of the White House Office of … Citron is a former Obama White House staff member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama …

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Ellen S. Sturgis 77F

… CFO services as well as expertise in redesigning financial and operational systems. In addition Ellen is currently a Corporator for Middlesex Savings Bank, and is on the Leadership Council for MassCreative, a … MA, having formerly served as Assistant Town Moderator and on a variety of boards in Stow, including the Second …

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Depicted Space

… this image as source material for a painting not yet made, and which began with me thinking about Velázquez’s Las … depicts members of the Spanish court of King Philip IV and has compelled generations of artists for many reasons — … complex use of space as a narrative device, withholding and revealing critical information. For example, the way …

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New Collaborative Solar Facility Goes Online

… delivering electricity to five New England colleges—and to tens of thousands of students, staff and faculty—as a new solar energy facility has gone online in … arts institutions: Amherst, Bowdoin, Hampshire, Smith and Williams. 
Over the past three years, the colleges have …

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Hampshire Farm Provides Free Vegetables to Students

… items such as garlic, kale, carrots, squash, lettuce, and beets. Students also have access to the pick-your-own … which are full of herbs, cherry tomatoes, flowers, beans, and more. Mods with three or fewer students receive small … Students are grateful, too. “It's amazing to have a free and reliable source of vegetables for an entire season,” says …

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Hampshire Alum Evan Viera Animates Coldplay's Interactive Video "Ink"

… through a tale of a man seeking out his lost love. Viera and fellow animation lead John Robson worked with a team of … with Blind, the agency that produced “Ink,” through friend and studio mate Paul Kim, who served as art director on the … Bit Films that he, co-writer Chris Bishop 00F, co-producer and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Chris …

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Hampshire Alum Poet, a National Book Award Finalist, Returns to Campus for Reading

… Finalist, Returns to Campus for Reading Hampshire alum and former faculty member Robin Coste Lewis, a finalist for … content. The dedication of her book reads, ‘For Beauty,’ and beauty abounds, but also collides with violence, debasement, and erasure. We’re grateful that she made herself available …

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Unfinished Tom Joslin Film Completed at Hampshire College

… Tom Joslin, has been completed by Professor Abraham Ravett and two Hampshire alums, Sam Shapiro 07F and Ben Balcom 04F . Documentary filmmaker Joslin taught at … a Close Friend , a coming out/love story of gay identity, and the posthumous, groundbreaking film Silverlake Life: The …

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Faculty

Rebecca Nordstrom

… Antioch College, an M.F.A. in Dance from Smith College, and is certified as a Laban Movement Analyst by the Laban … Early in her career she was a member of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians in New York City, and a co-founder of Collaboration Danceworks in Putney, …

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Ellie Siegel

… faculty associate, holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been an … Center for Advanced Research on Women at Brown University and visiting scholar in discourse studies at the University … fiction, taught poetry at the University of Minnesota, and worked in radio and print journalism. She was fiction …

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Div III Profile: Anita Fuentes Gutierrez On Racism, Reality TV

… It’s no secret that reality television is a dominant and influential medium globally. Anita Fuentes Gutierrez’s … in Spain. They first arrived in the early 15th century, and have frequently been the target of persecution. Since the … are twice as likely to be unemployed as other Spaniards and have a higher school-dropout rate, and their life …

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Abby Grace Drake's "Significant" Discovery About Dog Evolution

… pointing to their relatively quick evolution as a species and their coexistence with their ancestor, the wolf. “It’s … rare to have the opportunity to study both the descendant and the ancestor,” she says. Drake, an assistant professor of … essentially domesticated themselves, feeding on scraps and trash at the perimeter of human developments. The boldest …

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Hampshire College Prof's Uplifting Performance Art Merges Mind, Technology

… piece "Transcendence," the associate professor of art and technology uses his brainwaves, and a few essential pieces of equipment, to levitate off the ground. The premiere, at Zero1: The Art and Technology Network in San Jose this past summer, brought …

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Ibis Evidence in Activism Award for Marlene Gerber Fried

… Robyn Sutton-Fernandez; Mia Kim Sullivan, Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) director; Sigmund Roos 73F , chair … of Trustees; Diana Fernandez, interim dean of students; and Amy Crysel, CLPP director of operations and finance. Marlene Gerber Fried is a philosophy professor …

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Nov. 21: Authors Talk on 'Repast'

… Nov. 21: Authors Talk on 'Repast' Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, authors of Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn … p.m. Lesy, professor of literary journalism at Hampshire, and Stoffer, director of foundation and corporate relations at Amherst College, will speak in …

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Hampshire’s Christoph Cox to Lead Talk on “The Politics of Listening” at Upcoming Power of Protest Exhibition

… Christoph Cox, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and professor of philosophy, will lead a discussion on the … Cox will be talking with the artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Arash Saedinia. From the “Politics of Listening” event …

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