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Mentoring & Collaboration Produce Award-Winning Film

… Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, and cofounder of Florentine Films, values technical skill and a good … 1998, the filmmaker had chronicled 11 months in the life of famed New York restaurant owner Danny Meyer as he opened … Tabla and Eleven Madison Park. It was planned as part of a series on food and world-class restaurants that never …

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Faculty

Deborah Gorlin

… from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine. A writing instructor at Hampshire … also taught at other area colleges and at the University of California, Irvine. She has published both poetry and … and has extensive editorial experience. Her book of poems, Bodily Course, won the 1996 White Pine Press Poetry …

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Alice Petty 89F Joins Hampshire Board as Alumni Trustee

… At its meeting last week, the Hampshire College Board of Trustees affirmed a motion presented by the Committee on … postcards to accepted students, and serving as co-chair of the Bay Area Alumni Circle. Alice currently works with the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education in the Office of Academic Advising at Stanford University as academic …

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Taj Musco 99F on Shortlist for Louis Vuitton Journeys Award

… in Singapore, where he is studying at the TISCHAsia School of Arts. Although he has been in Singapore for two and a half … Musco says, referring to the bureaucratic nature of daily life there. The five-minute film opens with an … elderly widower spreading his partner's ashes into a body of water, only to be accosted by a police officer for …

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CLPP 28th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference

… health and rights by making connections to a diverse range of social issues, including racial, economic, and disability … include Fighting for Contraceptive Safety in a Time of Restricted Access, The Intersections of Immigrant Rights and Reproductive Justice, and Repealing …

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Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor

… Lawn. Taylor is founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology. The Body is Not An Apology … social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make peace with our own bodies and those of others. Through information dissemination, …

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The Excalibur Club

… years ago. Conjuring up the many-tentacled creatures of H.P. Lovecraft's tales using sidewalk chalk on Cthulu … & Dragons-type competition," says Ellen Dulaney 05F, one of the three signers for the Excalibur Club along with Andy … are dreamt up for every player. They spend all of Deathfest in their roles, split into groups of about 15 …

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Student Enterprise In Agricultural Technology Awarded A $20K Venturewell Grant

… in peak fertility. The system tracks an animal’s drinking of water and makes fertility predictions in real time. The … student Max Cheney, all whom incorporated the development of the product into their undergraduate studies. RELATED: … possible partners and stakeholders, and assess the costs of manufacturing. Minot says that monitoring a farm animal’s …

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Experimental Dance Show by Dean Slepian and Collaborators To Premiere This Week

… that is part dance, part light show, featuring the work of Dean John Slepian and collaborators, will premiere this … designer Heidi Anderson, and lighting director Kathy Couch of Amherst College. Slepian describes the performance as intimate: an audience of 30 people are seated in a circle around four dancers who …

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Division III: Researching Trace Metals in Rice

… determined which trace metals were contaminating specimens of rice, as well as where in the rice the contaminants were located. "Making a visual map of where the distribution is of these trace metals at tissue level hasn't been done …

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Slime-Mold Symposium and Reception Presented by Hampshire College Art Gallery

… Two speakers known nationally for pushing the boundaries of science, art, and sciart, will headline the Plasmodium … molds. Speaker Julia Buntaine is known widely as founder of the NYC-based national membership organization SciArt … A New York Times feature said her art “shows the beauty of data culled from neuroscience.” A writer for Scientific …

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Hampshire Social Justice Summer Program a Model for MSU Initiative

… student Kylie Dennis was approached by her school’s dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. R. Gregory Dunaway, about launching … experience during which she could learn the practice of social justice through hands-on experience, like an …

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Area Of Study

Animation and Digital Art

… worlds created within the computer, work in the areas of animation and digital art at Hampshire College is as … and more). Student Project Titles WhoseSpace?: Issues of Empowerment and Control in Social Networking Communities … Digital Playground Cyborgs, Posthumans, and New Techniques of Existence in the Age of Technoscience Helga: The …

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April 1, 2019: Statement from Luis Hernandez 70F and Kim Saal 70F

… Chair Gaye Hill P02 has resigned from Hampshire’s Board of Trustees effective immediately. As stipulated in the … current vice chair, took over as chair at a meeting of trustees Sunday. Board members assured a smooth … as a learning community founded on the principles of inquiry-based education and social justice. Gaye made the …

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Hampshire College Alums Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Miatta Kawinzi Awarded 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowships

… and “support the creation, development, and production of new works by early career and emerging artists.” Hunt-Ehrlich and Kawinzi were two of only sixty total fellowship winners announced by the … screened at the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York as well as in film festivals such as New …

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New Exhibit Showcases Young Photographers from Vietnam

… Vietnam. The works represent the contemporary experience of a group of young, urban Vietnamese men and women who documented their …  The photographers ranged in age from 18 to 25, many of them students in college, with one in high school, and …

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Hampshire has Four Connections to 2014 Academy Awards

… have received recognition recently from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences: Lupita Nyong'o 03F won an … Documentary. More » Ben Fiske 02F is on the Disney team of animators that created Frozen , which won an Academy Award … Animated Feature. More » Chris Perry, associate professor of media arts and science, was honored at the Academy's …

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Architecture Award for Professor Naomi Darling

… Naomi Darling Professor Naomi Darling is a winner of the American Institute of Architecture New England (AIANE) 2013 Citation Award for … Darling is a Five College assistant professor of sustainable architecture who teaches courses at Hampshire. …

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February 4, 2019: Briefing Documents: Following Board Meeting

… reaching its decision Friday to admit only a small class of students this fall. The first document is a presentation I delivered last Thursday to an assembly of faculty, staff, and trustees. Titled “ Hampshire’s Fiscal … historical financial hurdles, includes a timeline of developments from 2017 to the present, and concludes with …

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Admissions Counselor

Brett Martin 89F

… Martin 89F Brett Martin 89F Brett Martin is the author of Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution, From The Sopranos and The Wire to … James Beard Award winner and a seven-time selectee of the annual Best Food Writing anthology. His work has …

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Staff

David Dinerman 72F, Vice Chair

… Dinerman is the chief operating and financial officer of Zomazz, a digital decoration company in Monterey, Calfornia. David has spent most of his career helping entrepreneur-driven businesses achieve … B.A. from Hampshire, he holds a J.D. from the University of Oregon Law School and a L.L.M. from Boston University. …

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Notable Alumni

Rhys Ernst 01S

… Rhys Ernst 01S 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 filmmaker and artist who seeks to develop and expand upon the portrayal of trans lives. A co-producer of Amazon’s Golden …

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Notable Alumni

Lucy-Ann McFadden 70F

… Center, Lucy McFadden investigates the surface composition of the solar system's small bodies McFadden was a senior scientist and chief of higher education at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. … she conducted research on the formation and evolution of comets and asteroids in our solar system using …

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Photos from Div IV and Reunion 2013

… Culture, Mind, and Body, celebrated the College's 43 years of interdisciplinary explorations across the College, as well as 10 years of the Culture, Brain, and Development program. The goal of Div IV is to bring together the Hampshire community to …

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Photos from Hampshire's Ethics and the Common Good Project

… entitled Ethics and the Common Good: What Kind of World Do You Want to Live In? on February 12 . The launch also included a series of workshops facilitated by author and Commons activist David … focus on ethics within the academics and culture of an educational institution, with a distinctive focus on …

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