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Neural Connections: Research into the Brain Shapes Student's Research
… Whitmore. "I knew I probably wanted to do neuroscience and computer science, but I discovered I was a lot more … cognitive science professor Joanna Morris called Brain and Cognition. Now in his fourth year, he can still recall … Whitmore's focus was split between artificial intelligence and psychology. After that course, neuroscience took the …
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Holding Hands with Ilse
… who survived Auschwitz but lost their previous spouses and children there. They met and married after the war, hoping to build a new life in the … tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to America, and wound up in the newly formed state of Israel. I was just …
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Ravett Recordings Preserve "A Certain Kind of Life"
… Ravett Recordings Preserve "A Certain Kind of Life" Film and photography professor Abraham Ravett takes on projects … is a constant urge, a process of "resurrecting, archiving, and bringing a certain kind of life" to the images and sounds he records. It's a link that ties together the …
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Escaping the Taliban
… his bachelor’s degree in international relations and heading to Tufts University Fletcher School for graduate … son has been working with the Americans, living in America and is an infidel.” The Taliban was “essentially saying if … but he could not afford to collapse in grief. His mother and five siblings were still in danger, and he had to get …
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Board Member
Ananda Valenzuela 07F
… leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about … cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as … support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently sit on the boards of Change Elemental and …
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Hampshire College’s Michael Klare Discusses Geopolitics in a Post Fossil-fuel World with ABC Radio National
… with ABC Radio National Hampshire College’s Michael Klare and several other experts discuss geopolitics in a post … Klare is a Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World …
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Carnegie Foundation Recognizes Hampshire for Community Engagement
… Classification. The classification is awarded to colleges and universities that demonstrate significant engagement with and contribute to important community agendas. Hampshire … of the country’s more than 4,000 degree-granting colleges and universities. The classification is awarded through a …
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Notable Alumni
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 …
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Division III Profile: Sally Monroe Studies Renaissance Hospital Art
… about having an object that bridges the gap between you and a historically-distant person. You can't even begin to imagine who they were or what their lives were like, and yet you share the experience provided by a given … , Rogier van der Weyden's The Last Judgment Altarpiece , and Hans Memling's The Altarpiece of the Two Saint Johns . …
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Eugene Mirman 92F Chosen as 2012 Commencement Speaker
… Posted: December 09, 2011 Comedian, writer, filmmaker, and Hampshire College alumnus Eugene Mirman 92F has been … Mirman has his own half-hour special on Comedy Central and has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien , Last Call … with Carson Daly , John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show , and Comedy Central's Premium Blend . He has had memorable …
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Alum Presenting at National Professional Conference
… with Professor Ben Mardell of Lesley University and, through the Poppins Corporation, representatives of … Co-Constructing Powerful Learning Experiences With Infants and Toddlers." The group studied the interactions of the Early Learning Center's toddlers and infants. Toddlers were observed arranging the school's …
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Student Presents at Middle East Studies Conference
… El Baggari presented research on women's empowerment and the education system in her native Morocco, and the implications of a multilingual education system, as Moroccans typically speak French and Arabic. "As a Moroccan who has been educated under a …
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Flower Growing in Kenya
… flower farms. The daughter of a prominent politician and a journalist, Nyong'o is well educated and urbane, but had never heard about this problem before. … interviewed women who work on the Naivasha flower farms and in greenhouses. "All sixty-three women interviewed …
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Division III Profile: Katie Kramer Finds 'Connections'
… Hampshire, Katie Kramer knew she wanted to combine music and community engagement in her Division III capstone project. To that end, she designed and facilitated a curriculum in singing, musical theatre, and expressive writing, working through the CONNECTIONS …
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Thoenes Research Awards for Alissa Graff, Marleigh Higgins
… Awards for Alissa Graff, Marleigh Higgins Alissa Graff 10F and Marleigh Higgins 10F have been awarded Sander Thoenes … Research Awards. The Thoenes Awards support fieldwork and research costs involved in completion of recipients' … by fracking technologies, impacts communities' health and the environment. Higgins conducted interviews and took …
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Feb. 27: Announcement of the new Concentration in Psychoanalytic Studies at Hampshire College
… education to explore psychoanalysis in relation to society and culture. Keynote speaker for the event will be Dr. … Riggs Center, talking on "The Future of Psychoanalysis and the Next Generation." A panel of Hampshire students and alumni will respond. Faculty from across the College are …
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Notable Alumni
Jeff Ritter 78F P14
… Ritter 78F P14 I have been in education for a long time and a part of ‘alternative education’ since the first time I … studies (Everglades, Big Bend, New England), folklore, and more led directly to Hampshire. Growing enamored of … Miller, Margaret Cerullo, Jan Tallman, Laurie Nisonoff, and more inspired me to go towards a PhD in the hopes of …
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Hampshire College Commencement Celebrated Grads After a Challenging Year
… Grads After a Challenging Year After a year of remote and in-person learning, COVID-19 restrictions and required weekly testing for all students, Hampshire … year. Although the college operated with hybrid in-person and remote activities this semester, the commencement …
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NNAF Names Vanguard Award for Marlene Gerber Fried
… Gerber Fried “It is her forward-thinking leadership and commitment to reproductive freedom that laid the … have access to the reproductive health care they need, and grew it into a movement of people all around the country … Fund member or ally who embodies Marlene’s bold stance and brave leadership in abortion funding and advocacy.” …
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Spector Receives Google CS Engagement Award
… course will provide an introduction to programming and computational concepts for students who wish to work in … Programming for Science will be designed to attract and serve students who intend to concentrate in any of a wide … (for example, psychology, neuroscience, biology, physics, and chemistry), while also serving as an introductory course …
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Hampshire Alum Rapper Merci D. Featured on WBUR for New Album ‘Ooze’
… It's a little bit of fun, a little bit of feeling down and sad...but mostly it's me remembering who I am and my purpose." Loving-Manley graduated in spring 2020 with a degree in creative studies and film, just after the pandemic sent students home. For her …
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Choreographer Stephen Petronio 74F Named 2015 Doris Duke Artist
… will each receive $275,000 in funding as an investment in and celebration of their ongoing contributions to the fields of contemporary dance, theatre, and jazz. Petronio’s dance company will also be performing … . Petronio is an artistic director, choreographer, and founder of Stephen Petronio Company. He is widely …
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R.W. Kern Center's Water Treatment System
… that the building’s greywater—water from the bathrooms and kitchen sinks and drinking fountain drains—will be pre-filtered and captured in a greywater storage tank. From there it will …
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Faculty
Alan Hodder
… religion, holds a B.A. from Harvard College in folklore and mythology; an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in the history of religion; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University. …
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New Professors in the School of Critical Social Inquiry
… Professor of African Studies Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann , and Assistant Professor of Queer Studies Stephen Dillon … but had taught a course at Hampshire in 2011 called Gender and Economic Development in the Developing World (a course … grew up in Ghana, graduated from the University of Ghana, and taught economics in high school there before going to …
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