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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 … found herself increasingly involved in rights issues for undocumented immigrants. She spent last summer interning …

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Div III Profile: Sean Seid's Interpretations of Colonial American Music

… American Music Joshua Murray Sean Seid’s inspiration for his Division III capstone project can be traced to a … existence of the musicians. The notion of authenticity and and who defines it when playing centuries-old music forms the …

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Hampshire Opens Advanced Collaborative Modeling Center

… screens, tablets, physical modeling accessories, and collaborative work spaces. Hampshire’s Collaborative … Modeling Center opened this year in Cole Science Center, and already teams of students are using the space for collaborative projects across disciplines, while faculty …

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Division III: Using Microscopy to Extract Beauty

… the archivist, the archaeologist, the photographer, and the artist for this project," says Quinn Berkman 09F. Berkman's Division … the mold on the surface of found photo negatives and develop them as images. Berkman was presented with the …

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Alice Petty 89F Joins Hampshire Board as Alumni Trustee

… a motion presented by the Committee on Trusteeship and Governance to appoint Alice Petty 89F to the Board as … an active alum since she graduated in 1993, volunteering for the Campaign for Hampshire, writing postcards to accepted students, and serving as co-chair of the Bay Area Alumni Circle. Alice …

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Division III: Researching Trace Metals in Rice

… if the food you're eating is as healthy as it appears? For her Division III project, Priyanka Basnet 09F examined … found that she was more interested in agriculture, soil, and sustainability measures. Amarasiriwardena was Basnet's first-year advisor, and taking his course Pollution and Our Environment sparked …

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Div III Profile: Flannery Weiss Drafts Sex Health Education Curriculum

… education. Weiss designed an inclusive sex-ed curriculum for K-12 schools based on a year of intensive research, with … to deal with their sexual health — things such as consent and communication,” she says. “And forty-five percent thought … In the Hampshire library, she read journal and news articles on sex-ed policy and curriculum change, as well …

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Photos from TEDxHampshireCollege

… on Friday, October 12. Speakers included author and illustrator Jarrett Krosoczka; executive director of the … Project Jo Comerford; Hampshire alums Andrew Stachiw 06F and Brian Van Slyke 06F, co-creators of Co-opoly: The Game of … members of the worker-owned cooperative The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA); Dean of the School …

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

… she says. "I really looked at it as a year to take for myself, to really explore my education." Aubin's Division … 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 …

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Creating a Community Cookbook: Redefining Healthy

… Creating a Community Cookbook: Redefining Healthy For Emma Brewster 05F, spending spring semester 2008 in … pulling together interests in public health, economics, and anthropology and forming the base of her Div III, the compilation of a …

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Chiyo Ishikawa 76F

… 76F Chiyo Ishikawa 76F Chiyo Ishikawa is deputy director for art and curator of European painting and sculpture at the Seattle Art Museum Ishikawa was the …

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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming

… Wessler 03F is based on his reporting, “ Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside ,” for The New York Times Magazine. In the film, Wessler shares … the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing video chat recordings and news footage, he exposes the dire situation detainees faced …

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April 6, 2019: Letter from Interim President Kenneth Rosenthal

… to help Hampshire find its way in a difficult time, and I will do my best.   Hampshire was always intended to be a college that would examine and re-imagine itself from time to time. It will take the … As someone who has been a part of Hampshire College for more than 52 years, I know how difficult that will be. …

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Jen Rosenblit 01F

… 01F Jen Rosenblit 01F Bessie Award–winning choreographer and performer Jen Rosenblit has been making performance art … She is a 2015-16 Movement Research artist-in-residence and a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Emerging Choreographer.   Rosenblit is also an inaugural …

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SHIFT Foundation Increases Gift to Hampshire Ethics Program to $4.59 Million

… Ethics Program to $4.59 Million John Courtmanche A year and a half after Hampshire College launched its Ethics and the Common Good program with a private gift of $2.09 … students with courses, mentoring, and opportunities for research to explore questions of ethics, engagement and

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Hampshire College Welcomes Five New Members to the Board of Trustees

… members include alums Vibhu Norby 06S, Mike Plenty 01F, and Ananda Valenzuela 07F, as well as Alice Petty 89F as the elected alumni trustee and Associate Professor of Economics Omar Dahi as the faculty … Schecter 71F and Jesús Colmenares 03F were also renewed for additional terms. Vibhu Norby 06S is a multidisciplinary …

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20th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture Highlights “The Fight Back”

… “The Fight Back” Joshua Murray Racism, discrimination, and persecution against immigrants in the United States were … of the State: Immigration Control, Mass Incarceration, and the Fight Back, featured lectures by UCLA Professor of … Los Angeles . The director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, she is the research …

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Women’s Activism in 20th Century Iran

… The fact that Dooler Campbell's 07F Division III—"Nature and Development of Women's Activism in 20th Century … Pahlavi regime when modernization was on the rise in Iran--and women's responses to both Westernization and the sharp shift to Islamic reform. "Both sides used women for their own ends," she says. "There is a Western idea that …

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Hampshire Student Is a Victory Congressional Intern

… Congressional Intern When the federal government shut down for the first time in 17 years, Abigail Carpenter-Winch 10F … as a Victory Congressional Intern, a program of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute, a nonprofit that supports openly gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) public officials. "It's a very …

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Science Internship Gala

… science students remained at Hampshire through the summer and worked with their professors on research that they will … in settings including New York University's Center for Neural Science, Harvard Medical School, laboratories at … Hospital's cardiology department, Beth Israel Hospital, and the medical office of a general practitioner. These …

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Zena Clift 90F

… Zena Clift 90F Zena Clift 90F Dean of Academic Support and Advising Zena Clift works with third- and fourth-year students as well as all transfer students. … and extensions). She oversees the admissions process for students seeking readmission to the College and those …

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Student-Driven Theatre On Display in Hampshire’s Theatre Board

… Theatre Department was founded when a group of between 30 and 50 students, indignant and outraged at the lack of performing arts on campus, occupied the main lecture hall for several days in protest. But whether it’s legend or fact …

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Notable Alumni

Rhys Ernst 01S

… Rhys Ernst, a coproducer of Transparent , is a filmmaker and artist who seeks to develop and expand the portrayal of trans lives in media Ernst is a … , Ernst was awarded with the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on transgender representation in the media. His …

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Studying Interdisciplinarity in Arts Education . . . Interdisciplinarily

… Michael Samuels 09F "I've got quite a long title for my Div III," warns Michael Beggs. Learning Art: Contemporary and Past Approaches to College Arts Education, Black Mountain College, Josef Albers, Color, and the Didactic Art Exhibit is actually made up of three …

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Alum Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya’s Newest Documentary “Coded Bias” Airs on PBS

… film was first shown at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and explores the ways biases and discrimination exist within the algorithms and data that … from the Hamptons International Film Festival and an award for Best International Documentary from the Calgary …

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