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BESSIE Recipient Karinne Keithley 92F: “"Stick with it.”"

… 92F was recently honored with a 2011 New York Dance and Performance Award, commonly known as a BESSIE award. The … Combining elements of opera, radio play, light projection, and movement, Montgomery Park speaks to Keithley's diverse … her interests include sound composition, animation, and video production. She also does a ukulele cover act, and

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Welcome, Hampshire College Entering Class of 2012!

… 440 new students to campus—368 first years, 54 transfers, and 18 visiting and non-degree students. The new students include 12 James … entering class of fall 2012 comes from 37 states and 15 countries. Nineteen percent are students of color and

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Alum Robin Coste Lewis Wins National Book Award for Poetry

… her collection of poems that considers the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self, and questions where, historically, do ideas about the black … for her teachers, including professors Nina Payne and Andrew Salkey, whom Lewis worked with at Hampshire. She …

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Sander Thoenes Research Award Recipients Announced

… Gaydos, Rachel Ithen, Martha Pskowski, Maiwenn Raoult, and Roberto Rodriguez are recipients of the 2012 Sander … independent. His death drew international attention, and then-United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan released … saying, in part: "It is largely thanks to the courage and determination of men and women like Sander that crimes …

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Lesy Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

… through the 1920s. They were sold in "Tours of the World" and "Educational Series" sets, with hand-held stereo viewers and teachers' guides. Every view had a caption on its front and a narrative on its back. Working with the 500,000 images …

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David Matheson P11, P13

… Concord, Massachusetts David Matheson was vice president and senior partner of The Boston Consulting Group, where his work focused on the integration of health care and technology; since his retirement, he continues to work … He also consults individually to a number of health care and educational institutions, including Partners in Health …

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Amy Jordan

… has conducted oral histories with welfare rights activists and small farmers in Mississippi, and has conducted workshops on the history of anti-poverty and welfare rights activism. Her essay, "Fighting for the …

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Ellen Donkin

… from the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in theatre history from the University of … She has taught in the drama department of Franklin and Marshall College and at the University of Washington. Her special areas of …

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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 … for Hampshire, writing postcards to accepted students, and serving as co-chair of the Bay Area Alumni Circle. Alice … at Stanford University as academic program director and coordinator. In her position, Alice creates and develops …

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Angela Bardawil, LICSW

… her master's at Smith College School for Social Work and has continued to practice psychodynamic, … Angela is especially committed to issues of personal and cultural identity and to maintaining gains made in psychotherapy over time. She …

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Rachael Goren-Watts, Psy. D

… in college health/mental health settings since 2004, and has also worked with learning disabilities and assessment services for children and adolescents, as well as eating disorders. Rachael's …

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Hampshire College Installation Presents GPS For Birds Disoriented by Climate Change

… technologies, including urban camouflage for reptiles and fiber optics for corals. "Over the past century, … interested in the innovations of other species, and adapting them to serve human needs," says Mr. Keats. … commonplace." Velcro is based on thistles, for example, and the beak of the kingfisher provides just the right …

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Hampshire Student To Attend U.N. Climate Talks in Morocco

… O’Rourke, a Division III student studying climate change and sociology, is one of 13 American youth climate-justice … youth-led organization SustainUS, which advances justice and sustainability by empowering young people to engage in … COP22 is central to her undergraduate studies at Hampshire and to the capstone thesis project she’s leading this year, …

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Creating Cuban Consciousness

… Hampshire’s Cuba Program brings students from Hampshire and other colleges to live for three months in Havana and study one-on-one with Cuban mentors across disciplines, writing, filmmaking, sociology, and studio arts. It operates in partnership with the Alejo …

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With Eqbal

… started every lecture with two fibs: “I’m sorry I’m late” and “I’ll be brief.” Well, he was worth the wait and kept us enrapt. Many of us had never heard from a Muslim … corners of the world we were only just learning about. And for days after, we quoted his commentaries and

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Recent Graduate Robert Ditto 17F’s Work with the Smithsonian Helped Make Freedmen’s Bureau Archives Available to All

… his passions. Ditto, who had experience in landscaping and building, decided to volunteer at a local historical society doing repair and restoration work. He also began volunteering remotely for … records from the Mississippi Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, as well …

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When Two Tibets Meet

… home since 1959, the year the Dalai Lama fled China and set up a Tibetan government in exile there. In the … between Tibetans born in Tibet before emigrating to India and those who were born in exile. Her project, When Two … , centers around four Tibetans, two born in India and two born in Tibet, and is based on research completed …

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Finding Focus

… "Over my first year I bounced around a lot, and between the first and second year I thought a lot about what my time in Mexico meant to me. I realized there was a way to address and access issues. There are so many issues, immigration, …

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The Superman Orchestra

… No two scenes are alike. Each has the same structure and is the perfect length. And they are all public domain. In short, Max Fleischer's … Superman cartoons were a perfect choice to be dusted off and re-imagined as live performance pieces by Hampshire …

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Alumni Profile: Gerald Warburg 74S

… University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, he refers to college founder Thomas … "Jefferson's vision of the university was to train the men and women who are going to run our democracy, and we don't want to change that," he says. Warburg was …

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Fay Teaches Students the Work Behind the Games They Play

… They Play New assistant professor of computer science and game design Ira Fay has only been on campus for a short … said Fay, who is teaching Introduction to Game Design and Introduction to Game Programming this fall. "I'm excited to get to know the students better, and I'm regularly impressed by the diversity of student …

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Hampshire Students' Scripts in WORD! Festival of Staged Student Readings

… two Hampshire College students - Hao Bai's Another World and Andrew Figueroa's The Mixed-Race Mixtape - will be … of staged readings of scripts dealing with issues of race and diversity written by Five College students, is free and open to the public. The productions address race and

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Grinspoon Entrepreneurial Spirit Award for Hampshire Students' Voyaj

… hosts from around the world. El Baggari (pictured right) and Pedigo are launching the web portal Voyaj, an affordable … an honor that "acknowledges a student's actions to date and encourages them to move forward in pursuit of their … To learn more about the project, visit voyajtheworld.com .   Awards and GrantsEntrepreneurshipStudents … "Once you …

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Assault on Democracy — Letter from President Wingenbach

… actions of this regime, not a departure. It is despicable and deplorable, but not, sadly, shocking. Trump and his enablers have consistently attacked the tenets of democracy, and Trump’s open embrace of white supremacy is the foundation …

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Research Begun in Div III Featured on Journal Cover

… is studying fruit secondary compounds in pepper plants, and their role in plants’ seed dispersal. These chemicals are the same ones that cause black pepper to taste spicy and prevent insect predators and pathogens from feeding on the plants. And he has now …

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