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Hampshire COVID-19 Update
… and creatively to respond to the continuing spread of the COVID-19 virus. We are taking a number of important steps effective today, detailed below. Most … after spring break in order to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and allow time to assess whether students can …
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Notable Alumni
Lila Menard 16F
… member, they plan to highlight the unique opportunities of the College's nontraditional educational structure for … in New York, and is currently enrolled at the CUNY School of Public Health focusing on health policy. Their … Boston for seven years, most recently within the division of breast imaging. Outside of their career, their passions …
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Faculty
Christopher Perry
… from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His B.A., in physics and astronomy, … and visual storytelling, particularly the intersection of the two. Perry comes to Hampshire from Pixar Animation …
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For Alum and Conservationist Story Clark, Audio Stories Connect Listeners to the Places Around Them
… automatically and hands-free as travelers approach sites of interest. The podcasts can also be accessed remotely for a … had two highly successful careers, first in the field of conservation and then in conservation finance, even … programs. But Clark knew that harnessing the power of smartphones to tell place-based stories could forge a …
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Summer Programs for High School and College Students Open for 2016
… 2016, for students entering their junior or senior year of high school, led by Hampshire faculty and experienced … C reative Media Viewfinders exposes students to a range of nonfiction and fiction film, video, and photography skills … Feminist Camp, mixing historical and political contexts of activism with exposure to careers in social justice and …
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Finding Focus
… on campus two years ago, she began the difficult task of narrowing down her interests to find one focus of study. As it turned out, a stay in Mexico shortly after … with numerous classes at Amherst College in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought. She has also …
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Designing DNA
… Bruss 06F can tell DNA to self-assemble into a structure of his own choosing. In 2009, scientists took DNA … work by designing DNA with two binding zones, instead of just one. "With my technique," says Bruss, "you can … in such a way as to make things invisible." The puzzle of how to create two binding zones took a year to solve. To …
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Rebecca Thomas Earns Fulbright Award to Teach in Ecuador
… months in Ecuador, where she will work in an institution of higher education that trains future English teachers. … program assistant at the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, in Amherst. Several Fulbright Assistants … 13 Fulbright awards, according to Carin Rank, director of Hampshire’s Career Options Resource Center. Three years …
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Five College Africa Day on November 5
… beginning at 1 p.m. Dr. Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament and survivor of the Rwandan genocide, starts off the day's events with his … Rwanda." The address is followed by an afternoon of dance performances and panel discussions that examine …
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Board Member
Carol Salzman 71F
… 71F Secretary to the Board Carol Salzman joined the Board of Trustees in 2014. Carol is a retired physician who … University. Her doctoral research was in the role of lingual lipase and lipid digestion in neonates. She … she worked at the Washington VA Hospital in the Department of Infectious Diseases (ID) and subsequently opened a solo …
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Faculty
Michael Klare
… Klare Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security … Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He has written widely on U.S. …
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April 11: Update from Interim President Kenneth Rosenthal
… Dear Hampshire College Community, I’ve been a part of Hampshire for five decades. I joined the College before it was built, before The Making of a College was published. I’ve been a Hampshire staff member, faculty member, administrator, parent of an alum, and a trustee from 2008-16. Hampshire was always …
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Context and Schedule for Layoffs: February 13, 2019
… in 1970. Many involved in higher education, and observers of the impact we’ve had, have spoken up in support. We said … by moving forthrightly now, we’re able to take advantage of a precious resource—time. Yet on February 1, when the … entering class this fall, many took a dire interpretation of what this means for Hampshire’s future, and pending the …
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An Alternative Habitat
… quality in the bay is worsening, leading to degradation of sea grass, the habitat of choice for blue crabs too small to fend for themselves in … Institute, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, during the fall of her third year. "The great thing about going to Hampshire …
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Hampshire Student Awarded Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship
… 11F Hampshire student Mariel Nyröp 10F is a recipient of a Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship. The fellowships, part of the Five College Digital Humanities Program, are given to … project, ties together these two things—exploring the age of digital art and social media. The project is titled …
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Hampshire to Host New England Latino Student Leadership Conference
… is facilitated and supported by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and organized by … conference titled, “Solidarity Through the Decolonization of Ourselves,” has more than 200 participants registered from … ourselves, our identities and our colonial histories. One of our main goals is to justify and compassionately highlight …
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Faculty
Salman Hameed
… a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in astronomy from New … today his research focuses on understanding the reception of science in Muslim societies and how Muslims view the … evolution in the public sphere, Aliens: Close Encounters of a Multidisciplinary Kind, and History and Philosophy of …
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Faculty
Will Ryan
… Ryan, emeritus senior faculty associate in the School of Social Science, has been at Hampshire since 1980. Before … teacher. He has a B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of Vermont, and an M.A. in American history from the University of Massachusetts. A freelance writer with an interest in …
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Faculty
Daniel Warner
… Daniel Warner Daniel Warner, professor emeritus of music, holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in music from Princeton … Festival Synthese in Bourges, France; The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown; The Victoria Independent Film … in Newcastle, England; and the Smith College Museum of Art. Warner's recent music is available on the Virtuelle …
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Hampshire College to Host TEDx Event on October 18
… begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the main lecture hall of FPH. The event is free and open to the public, with … alum Ann Hackler 77F , executive director and cofounder of the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA), a nonprofit … and recording facility dedicated to the support of women and girls in the field of music and music-related …
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Community Commons Summer Grants Announced
… illustrate the tremendous range and inventive capacity of Hampshire students, as well as the College’s focus on … Award , and the Tom Joslin Internship Award . Many of the participating programs co-funded students in order to … and Helping Develop Curriculum for Online Education of Migrants and Refugees in Morocco
Aaron Davon Andrews, Div …
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After Service In AmeriCorps and Peace Corps, Leanna Pohevitz Earns Fulbright to Brazil
… learn about the people, education system, and culture of the country; and practice Portuguese. A prolific world … State Department announced later that year for reasons of safety, it would not send Fulbright recipients to that … Corps in Morocco, where she taught English to hundreds of students, ages 4 to 83, and spent two years creating an …
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Other Worlds Are Possible Event and Community Education Day Focus on Restorative Justice
… Hampshire College’s second Other Worlds Are Possible event of the spring semester will be held February 24 and will help … Day on February 25. Community Education Days are part of the College’s new curricular model and are integrated … and uplift themselves and others. This event is part of the Other Worlds Are Possible series, hosted by Community …
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Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center
… Kern Center on November 14 marked the official beginning of Hampshire College’s most ambitious building project in … The Center, designed to meet the exacting standards of the Living Building Challenge, will house classroom and … shape his life,” said Kern. “He understood the importance of learning how to learn, and that was the key to his …
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Faculty
Olabode Omojola
… Olabode Omojola Olabode Omojola, Five College professor of music, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester. Read Olabode Omojola's full bio at the Mt … College website » Olabode Omojola 0 Five College Professor of Music Affiliated Faculty United States … Olabode Omojola, …
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