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Hampshire Winter Dance Concert 2020
… Admission; $5 Students & Seniors Wheelchair Accessible The Hampshire Dance Program is proud to present the 2020 Winter Dance Concert, an annual concert featuring … and dance artist Deborah Goffe entitled We Owe Each Other the Indeterminate . Performed by an ensemble of nine dancers …
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Hampshire College Works to Develop Anti-Racist Plan of Action
… an anti-racist institution. As part of this process, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (IDI) … of how Hampshire has fared in fulfilling this commitment. The result is the College’s first Inventory of Anti-Racist Education, …
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Steely and Halasz Honored as 2016 Carol and Blair Brown Award Recipients
… a presentation May 5. Steely is a laboratory technician in the School of Natural Sciences; Halasz is the administrator for the School for Interdisciplinary Arts. The awards recognize …
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Constance Valis Hill
… in Dance Research and Reconstruction from City College of the University of New York; Bronze Certificate from the International Society of Ballroom Dance; Neutral and a Character Mask certificate from Pierre LeFevre at the Juilliard School. Professor Hill has taught at the Alvin …
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Division III Profile: Claire Sammut's 'Holding/283 Green Avenue' To Be Showcased
… that was once a tin-plate ceiling factory. It’s in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of the New York borough, which Sammut says is “an area that’s … she spent a lot of time in municipal archives such as the Brooklyn Historical Society and the New York City …
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Reeve Thompson 93F: How Hampshire Prepared Me
… Thompson 93F asked during a recent talk at Hampshire. The talk, titled, "How Hampshire and My Div III Film Prepared … Thompson's work as a videogame producer and cofounder of the software company Department of Behavior and Logic. He also demonstrated Bali, a program created by the company, which allows nonprogrammers to easily make …
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Aligning Admissions With Mission
… and Retention This article originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of College Planning & Management … other college. This became clear in 2013, two years into the term of our president, Jonathan Lash, and the strategic planning he was leading. This planning revealed …
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Jesse Steinmetz Named Poet Laureate by Hometown
… Named Poet Laureate by Hometown Poet laureates are much in the news these days. That media attention is only of mild … interest to Jesse Steinmetz, who at age 21 is probably the youngest poet laureate in the country. Of far more significance to the Hampshire …
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Jennifer Bajorek
… writer, and university professor working on questions at the intersection of photography, art, and poetry. She has a particular interest in the aesthetic aftermaths of colonialism in French and … and poetry); photography and film; and philosophies of the image and of liberation. Bajorek has published and taught …
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Creating Art from Alienation
… Burke has felt observed by what she calls “outsider eyes.” The eyes scrutinized her multiracial family whenever they … to explore her identity through art — specifically, the medium of the tunnel book. A type of book art akin to pop-ups, tunnel …
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Recent Graduate Searches for Paradise Amidst Upheaval in Div III Film
… beliefs, and I wanted to be a part of that community. The self-designed program of study was also very important to … behavior, so my intended route was psychology, but I found the readings and scientific language a little difficult to move through. At the same time, I was interested in the social sciences, so I …
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Alum Matt Hinderhofer 17F Researching Type-I Diabetes at Harvard
… at Harvard Recent graduate, Matt Hinderhofer 17F studied the effects of CBD on colorectal cancer cells while a student at Hampshire. They’re now working at the Melton Lab at Harvard, researching type-I diabetes. We … What was your Div III? For my Div III, I studied the effects of CBD on colorectal cancer cells. They were …
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Photos from 2014 Hampshire College Commencement
… Photos from 2014 Hampshire College Commencement The 2014 commencement ceremony was held on Saturday, May 17, 2014. Having trouble viewing the slideshow? View the images on Flickr. Video of Commencement The commencement …
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Nov. 21: Authors Talk on 'Repast'
… Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, authors of Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 , will speak on Thursday, … Stoffer provide a compelling look at America's appetite at the turn of the century, drawing heavily from primary sources …
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Hampshire's 50th Anniversary Celebration: October 15-17
… Now, as we celebrate Hampshire's 50th anniversary and the power of our mission, the spirit of these words is as alive as ever. Alums, students, faculty, staff, families, and friends of the College are invited to join us on campus for our largest …
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Recent Hampshire Alums Published in Internationally Recognized Science Journals
… to exposure to geogenic elements (of or relating to the earth) by ancient Andeans. Their multidisciplinary … science. Blumenstiel and McDonald were two of the co-authors for “ Exposure to geogenic lithium in ancient … lithium in mummy hair using LA-ICP-MS ,” published in the Journal of Archaeological Science . Blumenstiel was also …
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September 20: Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking
… 20: Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking The public is invited to hear Sister Helen Prejean speak on Thursday, September 20, at 8 p.m. in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall. A book signing will follow in the faculty lounge. Sister Helen Prejean is a pioneering …
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Alum Harry Rosenblum: Directing Theatre, Teaching Cooking, Brewing Vinegar
… audiences with his second career. Rosenblum co-founded The Brooklyn Kitchen in 2006, a "radical cooking school" that … like adults." Now , Rosenblum is having a moment, from The New York Times to an episode of The Untitled Action Bronson Show on Viceland airing Tuesday …
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HampFest Showcases Student Groups
… HampFest Showcases Student Groups Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F The Arts Village buzzed with activity September 12 during HampFest, the biannual student activities fair where student groups present themselves to the Hampshire community. More than 100 groups participated …
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Public Release of Hampshire-UMass 2018 Negotiation Documents
… Negotiation Documents Dear Hampshire College Community, The University of Massachusetts Amherst has provided me with internal documents from last year, which the Daily Hampshire Gazette gained utilizing public records … Hampshire College. These documents, now published by the Gazette , confirm what we as a community already know, …
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President's Letter on Proposed Student Experience Models
… Hampshire College Community, It’s been five weeks since the Launch of our community work to define a bold vision for the future of our student experience and reestablish Hampshire as the leading innovator in higher education. Hundreds in our …
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Pivoting from Film to Tech
… film, alum Aaron Edell 01F had no idea that he was laying the groundwork for a career. At Hampshire, Edell was torn … when he made a film about a medical subject with the same name, Plastination. Plastination is a technique … original properties and don’t decay. (This technique was the basis of the popular Bodies exhibition, which put …
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Second HampHack Hackathon Invites Students Beyond Tech, Across Disciplines
… students at a 24-hour hackathon, they were overwhelmed by the response: More than 600 college students applied for 200 spots. Participants at the weekend event represented not only Hampshire and the Five Colleges but also MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, and …
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Two from Hampshire Receive 2017 Princess Grace Award Scholarships for Film Theses
… Theses John Courtmanche A student and a recent alum are the latest from Hampshire to win prestigious Princess Grace … students and alums have won eight Princess Grace Awards the past six years — and 13 the past 11 years — as scholarships and grants for their film …
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Div III Profile: Project Partners Design Natural Haircare Product Venture
… Haircare Product Venture Joshua Murray “Have you ever read the back of your shampoo bottle, and struggled to figure out what those ingredients really are?” This is the dilemma Mae Fuller says informed her Division III … project, a collaboration with fellow student Samy Schrade. The two are in the process of launching lymph + honey, a …
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