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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F
… Peters 06F Give Kamil Peters 06F an oxyacetylene torch and a piece of discarded steel, and you'll soon find art where scrap metal used to be. Even … the talented metal sculptor is already getting commissions for his work. "When I got to Hampshire, I was searching for …
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Use of Image Release
… can be highly nuanced, depending on the circumstances for which the release is requested. The template provided here is intended for participants or speakers in College programs. Consult … can be highly nuanced, depending on the circumstances for which the release is requested. The template provided …
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2014 CBD Fall Grant Awards Announced
… Grant Awards Announced Hampshire College's Culture, Brain and Development program (CBD) has awarded fall 2014 grants … Division III, Dance-Based Movement as an Intervention for Neurogenerative Disorders . Zoe Schact-Levine, Division … Division III, Special Education through Art Integration and Language . Alice Morgunova, Division II, …
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Faculty
Omar S. Dahi
… trustee, as a representative of the Hampshire AAUP, and as interim vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of faculty. He is the founding director of Security …
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Hampshire Alum Co-produces Academy Award Winner "The Lady in Number 6"
… 6 , Kitzen didn't know what the final product would be. He and the others working on the film only knew that they had an … of it." The 39-minute film, which won an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, documents the story of Alice Herz-Sommer, who was the world's oldest pianist and oldest Holocaust survivor. When she and her young son …
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Roddenberry Foundation Funds Sustainability Solve-A-Thon
… Roddenberry Foundation will challenge Hampshire faculty and students to find interdisciplinary solutions to climate change, sustainability, and social justice through new courses, project grants, … team-taught interdisciplinary courses, ten travel grants for students engaged in project-related activities, symposia …
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Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
… Intelligence Made Simple Abigail Meisel When Nirman Dave and Tapojit (Tapu) Debnath met at Hampshire’s orientation for incoming international students, they hit it off, but … to have in common. Both originally from South Asia (India and Bangladesh, respectively), their friendship led not only …
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Hampshire Alum Dr. Vanessa Gamble Nominated to National Council on the Humanities
… Professor of Medical Humanities, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy and American Studies at the George Washington University. She … as the director of the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care. Dr. Gamble has …
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Language Learning
… intensive language program through the American Institute for Indian Studies in Lucknow, the capital of India's most … which Giles first visited through the Five College Tibetan and Buddhist Studies program. Giles was one of only a handful … graduate students. "We were reading newspapers, magazines, and literature, watching films, and speaking all the time in …
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Dana Pollan's Family Cookbook Encourages Healthy Eating
… Gorry-Hines 11F Hampshire College alumna Dana Pollan 80F and her family have always loved cooking and sharing recipes with each other. She and her two … and sometimes get stuck trying to come up with new ideas for dinners. They all turn to their mother, Corky, for …
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Sustainable Revolving Fund Lights Up Hampshire Performances
… 09F As any actor can confirm, stage lights are very bright and very hot. What might not cross every actor's mind is how … the theatre program's staff technical director. That makes for a big electric bill and carbon footprint. New LED lights, on the other hand, use …
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Creating Art from Alienation
… Creating Art from Alienation Abigail Meisel For as long as she can remember, Lauren Burke has felt … “what” they were. My mother’s family is from South Korea and my father’s family is originally Irish,” says Burke. … “People actually have come up to my brother, my parents, and me and told us which kid looks more like my mother or my …
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Exhibition Questions History of U.S. Relationship with Puerto Rico through Ironic “Museum” of Empire
… John Courtmanche Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and as its one-year anniversary approaches, an exhibition at … of the colonial relationship between the United States and the island, a U.S. territory for more than a century and a commonwealth since 1952. The …
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Five Hampshire College Science Students Receive Coppinger Grants
… Science Students Receive Coppinger Grants Fall 2014 Ray and Lorna Coppinger Endowment Grants have been awarded to … DeChiaria, Matt Hecking, Ben Liebman, Aaron Lindeke-Myers, and Tim Stiles — to support research projects in the … lab work with Jeffrey Blanchard, co-director of the Center for Microbiome Research at the University of Massachusetts. …
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FY19 Fundraising Update
… Through a grassroots surge led by alums, parents, faculty, and staff, extraordinary things happened. More of you gave … We brought in more than double what we usually raise for our operating budget. Where we normally raise about $2M, … of our campaign committee, asked the community to dig deep and stretch, and that’s just what happened. 45% of your …
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Two Hampshire Students Awarded 2015 Humanity in Action Fellowships
… Action Fellowships Humanity in Action Fellows are selected for high academic standing, participation in human rights issues, and outstanding recommendations. Humanity in Action received … a record 688 applications from 253 American colleges and universities for the 2015 Fellowships. Humanity in Action …
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Notable Alumni
Flavia Mayrinck Vidal 88F, Chair
… literary studies from Brandeis University. She then worked for 20 years at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she was director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies and instructor in English and interdisciplinary studies at the Jonathan French …
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Martial Arts Instructor Samuel Kanner Receives Award
… Karate of America—the 2013 Member of the Year, given for "exemplary service to SKA and its members in the East region." Hampshire's Shotokan … regions nominate individuals for their accomplishments and service to SKA. There is a vote based on these …
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Faculty
Daphne Lowell
… Daphne Lowell Daphne A. Lowell, professor emerita of dance and movement studies, and member of the Five College Dance Department, holds a B.A. … Journal, and she wrote the entry on Authentic Movement for The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines …
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Division III Profile: Sally Monroe Studies Renaissance Hospital Art
… III Profile: Sally Monroe Studies Renaissance Hospital Art For Sally Monroe, paintings from the Renaissance are a bridge … about having an object that bridges the gap between you and a historically-distant person. You can't even begin to imagine who they were or what their lives were like, and yet you share the experience provided by a given …
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Alum Michael Carriere 94F Co-Authors Comprehensive History on Creative Placemaking
… Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America with sociologist and photographer David Schalliol. The National Endowment for the Arts defines creative placemaking as integrating “arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen …
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Hampshire Board Decision on Admitting a Fall 2019 Class
… advancing this important work, the Board has deliberated and voted on three important issues: This afternoon, at its … the College to admit two distinct categories of applicants for this fall: those students who accepted Hampshire’s offer to enroll via the “early decision 1” plan this year, and students who had accepted Hampshire’s offer to enroll …
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NSF Grant to Support Research on Evolutionary Computation
… a technique in which random programs are generated and put into competition with one another, with the strongest … programs "having babies," as Spector puts it. "If, for example, I was trying to write a chess program really … number of random programs, have them all play each other, and let the ones that do better 'make babies,'" he says. …
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'Art Questions' Course Provides Sweeping, Immersive Arts Experience
… students who undertook a sweeping, immersive arts and humanities course funded by a coveted grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently capped their studies by … —written analysis, original creative writing, and artwork — were the culmination of in-depth studies in Art …
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Faculty
Salman Hameed
… Salman Hameed Salman Hameed holds a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in astronomy from New Mexico State University at … taught the courses Evolution, Islam, and Modernity, Sagans for the 21st Century: Creating Short Videos for Science …
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