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New Book by Will Ryan Goes Inside the Outdoors
… Ryan 's new book, Gray's Sporting Journal's Noble Birds and Wily Trout , has been published by Lyons Press, an … outdoor activities, draws on novels, memoirs, articles, and stories from 1820 to 1920 to show how the writers created the hunting and fishing traditions in place today. "It's no accident that …
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Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White
… impact of anthropogenic climate change on human migration, and propose a different way of treating the issue. White is the author of Climate Change and Migration: Borders and Security in a Warming World (2011) and recipient of …
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Alum Dan Inglis to Direct Hampshire Chorus
… an award-winning choral director, multi-instrumentalist, and certified master teacher of Estill Voice Training. Since … teaching his first private lessons as part of his Div III— and logging his first podium time with the Hampshire College … has built a thriving business out of private lessons and gained renown as a choral director and freelance musician …
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Board Member
Mike Plenty 01F
… Mike Plenty 01F Mike Plenty 01F Chair Audit and Risk Management Mike Plenty 01F serves as the contract … helps business lines acquire new services, technologies, and systems to achieve business benchmarks. Plenty also oversees the organization's procurement strategy and spend, and promotes vendor diversity. Through his …
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A Degree Well Earned
… for medical use. Six years ago, at age 32, with his wife and two children, he immigrated into the United States, … naive" his writings were, "really raw," but imagination and storytelling ability shone so brightly through papers he … a year he knew he wanted to pursue his passion for film and began to look around for a college with a strong program. …
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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 … in Springfield, MA, with a focus on anti-deportation work and legislative lobbying. “A good part of what I had to do …
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Staff
Edward Dees 71F
… a board-certified physician who specializes in emergency and internal medicine. For most of his career, he practiced medicine in the New Orleans area and the River Parishes; since Hurricane Katrina, he has been living between New Orleans and Vermont. Ed served as Hampshire College trustee from 1983 …
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Notable Alumni
Jon Krakauer 72F
… 72F Jon Krakauer 72F Jon Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild , Into Thin Air , and Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild and …
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Faculty
Kane Stewart
… Kane Stewart Kane Stewart, senior faculty associate in film and photography, received his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, … Dartmouth. He is currently facilities director of the film and photography program at Hampshire College. Kane has taught …
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Grant Will Support Conference Organized by Prof. Falguni Sheth
… by Prof. Falguni Sheth Professor Falguni A. Sheth and Professor Mickaella Perina have received a grant from the … organizing the 2014 California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. Sheth is an associate professor of philosophy and political theory at Hampshire College. Perina is chair of …
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Josiah Mardell
… is the field of both his parents, both his grandmother’s, and several aunts, uncles, and cousins) he formally started his career at Federal Hill … in the summer of 2015. For the rest of his time at UMass (and during summers) he considered himself an honorary …
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Carol Varney Elected Alumni Trustee
… executive director of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)—and her experiences as a first-generation college student—to … Project, SPACE Gallery, the San Francisco Cinematheque, and the Camden International Film Festival. Serving at Hampshire, and collaborating with others who share her passion for the …
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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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Notable Alumni
Jamie Citron 01F
… 01F Jamie Citron 01F Former Obama White House staff member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama … Citron 01F serves as deputy assistant to the President and principal deputy director of the White House Office of … Citron is a former Obama White House staff member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama …
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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 Poet, a National Book Award Finalist, Returns to Campus for Reading
… Finalist, Returns to Campus for Reading Hampshire alum and former faculty member Robin Coste Lewis, a finalist for … content. The dedication of her book reads, ‘For Beauty,’ and beauty abounds, but also collides with violence, debasement, and erasure. We’re grateful that she made herself available …
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Unfinished Tom Joslin Film Completed at Hampshire College
… Tom Joslin, has been completed by Professor Abraham Ravett and two Hampshire alums, Sam Shapiro 07F and Ben Balcom 04F . Documentary filmmaker Joslin taught at … a Close Friend , a coming out/love story of gay identity, and the posthumous, groundbreaking film Silverlake Life: The …
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