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Div III Gallery: Charlotte Hawkins – Vinegar Then Honey

… with an original exhibit of her work premiering in the Hampshire College Art Gallery on April 2-5, 2017. Here we … both Boston and New York. As an art student, that’s one of the most important things you can do: be in cities as often … project is an effort to reconcile a complicated history of the American South. I know that it can be a problematic …

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New Faculty Q&A with Jennifer Bajorek

… fourth-year student Emily Lawson gets to know one of the College’s newly appointed faculty members, Jennifer … Bajorek, who earned her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California Irvine and followed that with a postdoc in the rhetoric department at Berkeley. Before Hampshire, she …

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Hampshire Student Awarded Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship

… of a Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship. The fellowships, part of the Five College Digital Humanities Program, are given to one student from each college and receive funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Nyröp arrived at Hampshire …

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Hampshire Alum Asher Edes 03F Awarded Grant for Jewish Community-Building Project

… designed by Edes and artist and farmer Alexander Vickery. The project takes its name from Shmita, the year of rest every seven years on the Jewish calendar. Historically, in communities that …

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Faculty

Marty Ehrlich

… emeritus of jazz and contemporary music, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, critically … on 30 different recordings of these groups, including the recent "A Trumpet In the Morning" for Jazz Orchestra on New World Records. As a …

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Faculty

Kimberly Chang

… psychology from Syracuse University. She is an alumnus of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and was a resident writer at the Vermont Studio Center. She publishes under the name, Q.M. Zhang , and and is the founder of MemoryWorks …

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Statement In Support of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

… Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, whom we invited to be the keynote speaker at Hampshire’s commencement ceremony on May 20. We are appalled by the vicious and explicitly racist, misogynistic, and … Taylor in response to her remarks. And we condemn the actions of those who are inciting violence by willfully …

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Faculty

Donna Cohn

… associate professor of applied design, holds a B.S. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and a master's in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked with the Boston Center for Independent Living as a designer and …

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Notable Alumni

Jon Krakauer 72F

… 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 Under the Banner of Heaven , the latter of which …

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Hampshire College to be Honored with Legacy Award

… Hampshire College will be honored with a Legacy Award by the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce at its Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 1, 2015. The Chamber is honoring Hampshire “in recognition of their … to green building and sustainability, and creation of the village center,” according to the Amherst Chamber. Other …

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Sandra Matthews

… is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A.).  Her … photographic work is represented in collections including the Smith College Art Museum; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Block Museum of Art, …

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Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White

… Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White The public is invited to "Climate Change as a Security Issue: Where Catastrophism Meets the Militarization of Human Migration" on Tuesday, February 25, at 6 p.m. The lecture by Smith College Professor of Government Gregory …

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OPRA's Karen Warren Selected to Give 2014 Kurt Hahn Address

… Athletics (OPRA) instructor Karen Warren will give the 2014 Kurt Hahn Address at the 42nd Annual International Association for Experiential … Education (AEE) Conference in October. Selection for the Kurt Hahn Address is the AEE's highest award. It …

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Alan Hodder

… and mythology; an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in the history of religion; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University.  Before coming … where for three years he directed undergraduate studies in the comparative study of religion. He is the author of two …

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Staff

Paul Murphy

… Paul Murphy Preschool Co-Teacher Paul has been working in the field of early childhood education for over a decade, including a 12-year run teaching in the preschool classroom at
 Nonotuck Community School in … is excited to be a part of a great co-teaching team at the Early Learning Center and to be a member of the dynamic …

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Div III Tests Boundaries

… Sharon Goldberg (04F) sought to break down barriers. The walls she hopes to dissolve are those between audience … began before Hampshire and led to her choice to attend the college. "I have unique interests and wanted to be … fall 2006, Goldberg was set to do field study in Israel in the northern town of Haifa, where she had briefly lived as a …

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Division III Profile: Sally Monroe Studies Renaissance Hospital Art

… Renaissance Hospital Art For Sally Monroe, paintings from the Renaissance are a bridge between time periods. "There's … really fascinating about having an object that bridges the gap between you and a historically-distant person. You … they were or what their lives were like, and yet you share the experience provided by a given artwork," she says. For …

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Five Colleges, PVTA agree to more buses, faster routes

… to an agreement forged between Five Colleges, Inc. and the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, the PVTA-Five College bus service will be improved for … this year, so anyone expecting to ride a PVTA bus in the Five College area should consult a 2011/12 bus schedule …

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Alum Jason Cilo Helps Students Focus on Professional Video Production

… When Jason Cilo 88F advises students about careers in the entertainment industry, he sets them straight on how to … said during a recent presentation to about 20 students at the Career Options Resource Center . “I hire people who are … and know how to make themselves indispensable.” The founder of Meetinghouse Productions , Cilo creates …

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Hampshire College Alum and Somatic Movement Therapist Martha Eddy Featured in New York Times on ‘Slowing Down to Feel’

… 74S was one of several practitioners interviewed about the ways somatic practices can help individuals better connect with their bodies during the pandemic, a time when movement can be limited. Somatic … focus on internal attention and awareness to movement and the body. “We’re talking about allowing the living body to …

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Alumni Profile: “It’s Hampshire. You can’t just do one thing.”

… or some people that do know it but need to work on the mechanics of the language. It's my job to help them," Céspedes Pérez says. She was sold on Hampshire College the moment she saw the admissions slogan "an education as …

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Professor Emeritus Coppinger on 'The Dogs Without Collars'

… Professor Emeritus Coppinger on 'The Dogs Without Collars' Founding Hampshire professor … look at man’s best friend and their wild counterparts. The couple recently sat down with The New York Times  to discuss the 750 million wild dogs in …

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Div III Profile: Syrian Refugee Accounts Inspire Student's Emergency Response App

… to a semester in Jordan, where David Pearl learned of the medical inadequacies at the Za’atari refugee camp.  More than 80,000 Syrians have fled to the Jordanian camp since 2012 to escape the violence of the

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Atlas, a Short Film by Nadia Lesy 95F

… 95F Nadia Lesy 95F 's new short film, Atlas , showcases the multimedia Parkour performance group Bullettrun in a … climbing, jumping, and other acrobatic movements) from the streets to the stage in several acclaimed performances as well as in …

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President Lash Appoints Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students

… Hampshire President Jonathan Lash announced on April 25 the appointment of Gloria Lopez as interim vice president for … two years. Among Lopez's priorities will be to continue the work initiated by Dean Rachel Rubinstein and Associate Dean Pam Tinto to strengthen ties between the academic program and student life and to create a …

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