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

… 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 … women of different racial, socio-economic, religious and sexual backgrounds and orientations. The women talked …

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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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Board Member

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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Faculty

Rebecca Nordstrom

… Antioch College, an M.F.A. in Dance from Smith College, and is certified as a Laban Movement Analyst by the Laban … Early in her career she was a member of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians in New York City, and a co-founder of Collaboration Danceworks in Putney, …

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Faculty

Ellie Siegel

… faculty associate, holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been an … Center for Advanced Research on Women at Brown University and visiting scholar in discourse studies at the University … fiction, taught poetry at the University of Minnesota, and worked in radio and print journalism. She was fiction …

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Div III Profile: Anita Fuentes Gutierrez On Racism, Reality TV

… It’s no secret that reality television is a dominant and influential medium globally. Anita Fuentes Gutierrez’s … in Spain. They first arrived in the early 15th century, and have frequently been the target of persecution. Since the … are twice as likely to be unemployed as other Spaniards and have a higher school-dropout rate, and their life …

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Abby Grace Drake's "Significant" Discovery About Dog Evolution

… pointing to their relatively quick evolution as a species and their coexistence with their ancestor, the wolf. “It’s … rare to have the opportunity to study both the descendant and the ancestor,” she says. Drake, an assistant professor of … essentially domesticated themselves, feeding on scraps and trash at the perimeter of human developments. The boldest …

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Hampshire College Prof's Uplifting Performance Art Merges Mind, Technology

… piece "Transcendence," the associate professor of art and technology uses his brainwaves, and a few essential pieces of equipment, to levitate off the ground. The premiere, at Zero1: The Art and Technology Network in San Jose this past summer, brought …

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Ibis Evidence in Activism Award for Marlene Gerber Fried

… Robyn Sutton-Fernandez; Mia Kim Sullivan, Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) director; Sigmund Roos 73F , chair … of Trustees; Diana Fernandez, interim dean of students; and Amy Crysel, CLPP director of operations and finance. Marlene Gerber Fried is a philosophy professor …

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Nov. 21: Authors Talk on 'Repast'

… Nov. 21: Authors Talk on 'Repast' Michael Lesy and Lisa Stoffer, authors of Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn … p.m. Lesy, professor of literary journalism at Hampshire, and Stoffer, director of foundation and corporate relations at Amherst College, will speak in …

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Hampshire’s Christoph Cox to Lead Talk on “The Politics of Listening” at Upcoming Power of Protest Exhibition

… Christoph Cox, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and professor of philosophy, will lead a discussion on the … Cox will be talking with the artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Arash Saedinia. From the “Politics of Listening” event …

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Luna Goldberg Receives Fulbright Award

… of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as demonstrated … exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. This is the second …

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February 19, 2019: A Most Difficult Day

… day at Hampshire, as nine colleagues from the Admissions and Advancement offices were notified that their employment … April 19, 2019. I share this news with a heavy heart and immense gratitude. We are losing valued colleagues and friends whose thoughtfulness and dedication have had …

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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 … creative placemaking as integrating “arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen … deeply engages the community, involves artists, designers, and culture bearers, and helps to advance local economic, …

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Hampshire College is a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Students

… The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced the list of colleges and universities producing the most Fulbright students. Four … Shannon (English Teaching Assistant grant, South Korea), and Krista Mangiardi (English Teaching Assistant grant, …

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Admissions Counselor

Alyssa O’Brien

… Alyssa O’Brien Associate Director of Admissions First year and transfer students from Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, … from Holyoke Community College; B.A. in psychology and religion from Mount Holyoke College Why I love working at … I’ve lived in Western Massachusetts for my entire life and Hampshire College has always been special to me. I …

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Division III: Whose Story Does History Tell?

… racial tensions between an African-American battalion and white townspeople. During the riot by 156 soldiers, four soldiers and 16 civilians were killed. In a case that eventually … were tried by three courts-martial, with 19 executed and 41 given life sentences. What he read - and what he felt …

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