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Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White

… impact of anthropogenic climate change on human migration, and propose a different way of treating the issue. White is the author of Climate Change and Migration: Borders and Security in a Warming World (2011) and recipient of …

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Alum Dan Inglis to Direct Hampshire Chorus

… an award-winning choral director, multi-instrumentalist, and certified master teacher of Estill Voice Training. Since … teaching his first private lessons as part of his Div III— and logging his first podium time with the Hampshire College … has built a thriving business out of private lessons and gained renown as a choral director and freelance musician …

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Mike Plenty 01F

… Mike Plenty 01F Mike Plenty 01F Chair Audit and Risk Management Mike Plenty 01F serves as the contract … helps business lines acquire new services, technologies, and systems to achieve business benchmarks. Plenty also oversees the organization's procurement strategy and spend, and promotes vendor diversity. Through his …

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A Degree Well Earned

… for medical use. Six years ago, at age 32, with his wife and two children, he immigrated into the United States, … naive" his writings were, "really raw," but imagination and storytelling ability shone so brightly through papers he … a year he knew he wanted to pursue his passion for film and began to look around for a college with a strong program. …

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Immigrants' Rights Issues Drive Kamika Bennett's Studies

… in what the different issues related to immigration are, and what I have to do to build trust and solidarity among different groups.” As a member of … in Springfield, MA, with a focus on anti-deportation work and legislative lobbying. “A good part of what I had to do …

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Student Presents Original Research of 16th Century Maya at American Chemical Society Symposium

… at American Chemical Society Symposium John Courtmanche and Mike Medeiros For her Division III capstone research last … Hampshire’s mass spectrometer to study ancient Mayan teeth and try to assess the degree to which the Spanish who invaded … had affected their health. “Teeth grow like tree rings, and they’re highly inorganic, so all of the trace elements …

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Notable Alumni

Suzanne Perkins 85F P18

… at the University of Michigan studying how poverty and child maltreatment affect brain development. She was a … students with disabilities, mostly associated with abuse and neglect, and continues her advocacy for people living with …

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Edward Dees 71F

… a board-certified physician who specializes in emergency and internal medicine. For most of his career, he practiced medicine in the New Orleans area and the River Parishes; since Hurricane Katrina, he has been living between New Orleans and Vermont. Ed served as Hampshire College trustee from 1983 …

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Jon Krakauer 72F

… 72F Jon Krakauer 72F Jon Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild , Into Thin Air , and Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild and

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Faculty

Kane Stewart

… Kane Stewart Kane Stewart, senior faculty associate in film and photography, received his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, … Dartmouth. He is currently facilities director of the film and photography program at Hampshire College. Kane has taught …

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Grant Will Support Conference Organized by Prof. Falguni Sheth

… by Prof. Falguni Sheth Professor Falguni A. Sheth and Professor Mickaella Perina have received a grant from the … organizing the 2014 California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. Sheth is an associate professor of philosophy and political theory at Hampshire College. Perina is chair of …

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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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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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Notable Alumni

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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