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Professor Ryan Joo's Book Tops South Korean Bestseller List
… as Things That Appear When You Pause , is a collection of essays and shorter works written over the past year and a … nonfiction work. Written from a Buddhist monastic point of view, the pieces were originally published in a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as on Professor Joo's …
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Five College Connections: Three International Students Take MHC Sisters' Recommendation
… Recommendation Michael Samuels 09F While it's not unheard of for students at one of the Five Colleges to recommend another to younger … a major draw. Another important factor was the environment of a small liberal arts college. Khawaja and Tazeem agree …
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Tech Startup Founded by Two Hampshire College Alums Raises $4.7 Million in Seed Funding
… afford data science teams. Dave came up with the solution of a no code platform to solve this dilemma while completing … behavior. Dave and Debnath each tackled a different aspect of the project: Dave wrote about how to best design and … on product development and technology stack, a combination of software products and programming languages used to create …
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Faculty
Frank Holmquist
… Frank Holmquist Frank Holmquist, professor emeritus of politics, received his B.A. from Lawrence University and … from Indiana University. His interests are in the areas of comparative politics, peasant political economy, and … development. Frank Holmquist 21984 Professor Emeritus of Politics Professors Emeriti United States … Frank …
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Admissions Counselor
Kiara Badillo 17S
… Kiara Badillo 17S Kiara Badillo 17S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, … Center (ELC) . They are not only changing the lives of their students and our students, but are often … about me: I love my dog so much, and Boomer is a huge part of the Hampshire community. Due to many Hampshire College …
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2014 CBD Fall Grant Awards Announced
… . Zoe Schact-Levine, Division III, Exploring the Validity of Reiki in Stress-Reduction Practice . Breonna Mabry, Division III, Dose-effect of Cigarette Smoke on Clinical Outcomes in Multiple … Stiles, Division II, Computational Modeling and Analysis of the Vasculature . Xiang (Elaine) Wang, Division III, …
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Stephen Petronio: Reflections on Repertory and the Creative Process
… 74F —a leading contemporary choreographer and a graduate of Hampshire College—will participate in two public events … The two events that are open to the public and free of charge—entitled "Stephen Petronio: Reflections on … Petronio is nationally and internationally regarded as one of the most cutting-edge American contemporary …
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Aligning Admissions With Mission
… Aligning Admissions With Mission Meredith Twombly, Dean of Enrollment and Retention This article originally appeared in the December 2016 issue of College Planning & Management magazine . I confess: we … rebels against lectures and passive learning, champions of self-designed majors and project-based learning, had let …
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Jonah Taylor Receives Design Award
… the best design from within companies across a number of categories. Taylor's award recognizes the work he did … Philadelphia. He describes the internship as a "a mixture of design work, including user experience, marketing … both launched in March. The internship was a key component of Taylor's Division III (senior) project, which focused on …
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Brett Morgen's Newest Documentary Featured in the New York Times
… alum Brett Morgen’s new documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck was recently featured in the New York Times. Known as the "mad scientist" of documentary filmmaking, Hampshire alum Brett Morgen is no … complex stories. In his newest film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Morgen used journals, home movies, and more than 100 …
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Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann
… Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann Professor of Development Studies Betsy Hartmann received a … practices, and ideologies in India and the efforts of non-state actors – social movements, engaged scholars, … lecture at academic institutions and venues in other parts of India on the current landscape of international population …
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Faculty
Melissa Burch
… Melissa Burch Melissa Burch, associate professor of cognitive development, received her B.A. in psychology … a minor in interpersonal relationships from the University of Minnesota. Melissa's research interests center on memory … she is interested in how emotion may affect reports of past experiences and how parents and children talk about …
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Women Welders
… is completing her final academic project on the history of women welders. "I had never done any welding, or worked with power tools of any kind before college, and I just fell in love with it," … a design and fabrication resource available to all members of the campus community. She also spent a semester working at …
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State College Republican Chair
… meet Ricky Tsay 06F, who was elected April 18 as chair of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans (MACR). Tsay, a third-year philosophy … student, is interested in economic issues and in a renewal of intellectual conservatism, or as he describes it, …
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Staff
Samantha Bernecker, M.S.
… Samantha Bernecker earned her M.S. from the University of Massachusetts, where she is currently completing her Ph.D. Her research focuses on identifying the elements of psychotherapy that cause change. Clinically, she is interested in integrating a variety of approaches to psychotherapy including insight-oriented, …
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What We Did This Summer: Students Showcase Their Work in Immersive Summer Programs
… Hampshire’s 2017 Summer Academic Programs drew dozens of students to campus from across the Northeast and beyond — … — to participate in intensive summer versions of Hampshire’s distinct academic programs, which are marked … programs as residential institutes or camps, says Director of Summer Academic Programs Meghan Cassidy, and many of the …
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Div III Profile: Syrian Refugee Accounts Inspire Student's Emergency Response App
… genesis to a semester in Jordan, where David Pearl learned of the medical inadequacies at the Za’atari refugee camp. … to the Jordanian camp since 2012 to escape the violence of the ongoing conflict tin their country. Pearl was in Jordan’s capital in fall 2015 as part of a community-development and health program facilitated by …
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Eli Plenk 10F Receives 2013 Humanity in Action Fellowship
… The fellowships bring together international groups of college students and recent graduates to explore different national histories of discrimination and resistance to injustice, as well as examples of contemporary issues affecting minority groups. The …
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CommunicateHealth Cofounder Xanthi Scrimgeour 85F
… Posted: October 26, 2012 By Michael Samuels 09F Nine out of ten people have trouble understanding health and medical information. "If nine out of ten people don't understand something," reasons Xanthi … and understandable. The couple had more than 30 years of public health experience between them when they started …
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Hampshire Ranks #8 Among Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S.
… to search massive databases and measure the impact of work by individuals who’ve been affiliated with colleges … they combine fields to curate their own original course of study. They deeply engage in their education through … answer, a question perhaps never before posed. See a list of a few of our notable #HampshireChangemaker s. Request …
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Information About Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct Policy and Procedures
… to provide educational programming aimed at the prevention of sexual assault. The College is concentrating on ensuring … do occur. We are committed to the safety and well being of all our students and to the effective and full collection and reporting of data. Hampshire proactively reviews and modifies our …
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Notable Alumni
Melissa Hoffer 84F
… 84F Melissa Hoffer is an environmental lawyer and chief of the Energy and Environment Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Melissa Hoffer … serves as the Massachusetts Climate Chief in the Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience . As climate chief, …
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Alum Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya’s Newest Documentary “Coded Bias” Airs on PBS
… New York Times Critics’ Pick. The film, about the growth of the solar power industry, aired on Netflix in 2016. Description of Coded Bias From PBS : In an increasingly data-driven, automated world, the question of how to protect individuals’ civil liberties in the face of …
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'Climate change will change everything, including the prospects for war and peace'
… Medeiros “I don’t suggest that climate change is a cause of war,” said Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies. “But climate change will … cause cataclysmic events is to adopt a universal system of carbon-emission reductions, with every country doing its …
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Identity and Culture
… from the 500s CE. Dr. Rubinstein, assistant professor of Jewish American literature and culture, recently finished writing a book on Jewish perspectives of Native American culture in the past two centuries, to be … and these days she brings that knowledge—and plenty of questions for students to consider—to each course she …
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