News
Invitation for Public Comments for NEASC Reaccreditation
… Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The Commission on Institutions of Higher … on a regional basis. Accreditation is voluntary and applies to the institution as a whole. The Commission, … College has been accredited by the Commission since 1974 and was last reviewed in 2007. Its accreditation by the New …
Read More
News
Hampshire College Will Require All Students to Be Vaccinated for Fall 2021 Semester
… return to an in-person, fully residential, personalized, and safe college experience for the fall semester. Requests … work on ways to facilitate access. “As vaccination rates and availability increase across the country, I am even more … safe practices, even as it has grown tiring to do so, and I know we will continue to be guided by shared …
Read More
News
Hampshire College, Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease
… with two living buildings. Negotiations between Hampshire and the Hitchcock Center have taken place over the past 45 months. The two share many values and goals, including deep commitments to innovative, hands-on programs and sustainability. The Hitchcock Center offers year-round …
Read More
News
Hampshire Professor D’Avanzo Writes Eco-Mystery
… uses fiction to engage readers in climate-change science and politics. Among the numerous positive reviews, … it also has meat on its bones, with rich characterization and an intriguing mystery at its core.” Author and activist Bill McKibben writes, “Sleuths will have to …
Read More
News
Alum Craig Sees Law Degree as Tool Kit for Social Change
… Law Degree as Tool Kit for Social Change John Courtmanche and Joshua Murray Catherine Craig ’08F has begun her law … for a joint law degree from Northeastern University and a master’s in environmental law and policy from Vermont Law School. She had received a …
Read More
Notable Alumni
Nirman Dave 15F
… Nirman Dave 15F Nirman Dave 15F Co-founder and CEO of Obviously AI, Nirman Dave is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who launched Hack Hamp for the Five Colleges Computer scientist and entreprenuer Dave started HampHack for the Five Colleges …
Read More
Staff
Ronald A. Kelter, PA-C, Lic Ac, AAHIVS
… AAHIVS Health Services Staff Ron is a physician assistant and acupuncturist who joined the staff at Hampshire College … has years of experience in general primary care to adults and adolescents as well as gastroenterology specialty … of Northeastern University's Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with a master of health professions and …
Read More
Notable Alumni
Liev Schreiber 85F
… 85F Liev Schreiber is an award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter whose roles encompass film, television, and the stage Schreiber is an award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter whose roles encompass film, television, and …
Read More
Notable Alumni
Robin Coste Lewis 86S
… Robin Coste Lewis 86S Robin Coste Lewis 86S Poet and professor Robin Coste Lewis won the 2015 National Book … Poetry for her collection Voyage of the Sable Venus Poet and professor Lewis won the 2015 National Book Award for … Lewis’s writing has appeared in various journals and anthologies, such as Time Magazine and The New Yorker . …
Read More
Faculty
Jane Couperus
… cognitive neuroscience, received her B.A. in psychology and music from Wesleyan University, her M.A. in applied … psychology from Claremont Graduate University, and a Ph.D. in child development with a minor in neuroscience … are in the development of attention, learning, memory, and their neurological substrates. Her research uses …
Read More
News
A Div III that Includes Up-close Exploration of Shark Conservation
… there, what are you doing with a ten foot animal circling and swimming by you?'" Amir Fogel 09F says of his experience … which included the aquarium dive with lemon sharks and sand tiger sharks. The film portrays conservation issues from all perspectives, including shark scholars and the fishermen whose livelihoods are put in peril by …
Read More
News
Hannah Todd 03F Directs Up a Storm (Tempest)
… "which is what I'm doing now." Todd is the director and co-founder of We Happy Few Productions , a theatre … last play, The Tempest calls for plenty of magic and illusion, and pushed the limits of ingenuity for Elizabethan theatre …
Read More
News
Giving Voice to Identity
… region. He began with general research on the Northeast, and found that there were about ten tribes with U.S. … like today," he says. "I wanted to humanize them, too, and bring them into the general consciousness." Along the … to be an increase of volume for our voice as students, and we are going to take what resources we have and push them …
Read More
News
Phyllotaxis Dynamics
… been trying to understand this, looking at the spacing and patterns geometrically. Mathematicians and physicists have formulated some rules about it, and biologists are trying to understand the physiological …
Read More
News
Div III Student Josh Weissbach Receives Princess Grace Award
… a special honor awarded to only one filmmaker each year, and represents the selection panel's regard for Weissbach's work and dedication to film. It is named as a tribute to actor … The film explored the subjects' relationships to space and how that has changed since they left Cuba. "Space has …
Read More
News
Div III Project Sows Seeds for DIY Film Community
… ignorance," has involved more than 50 students, faculty, and others in the Five College community since production … began last fall. Conversations between Charalampidis and Shirish Bahattarai 11F, co-producer of The Games We Play … don't know how," said Bhattarai."I study entrepreneurship, and collaboration is a big part of that. I felt this would be …
Read More
News
Hampshire has Four Connections to 2014 Academy Awards
… has Four Connections to 2014 Academy Awards Three alums and one faculty member from Hampshire College have received … More » Chris Perry, associate professor of media arts and science, was honored at the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation for his work on Voodoo, a …
Read More
News
Charging Station for Electric Vehicles at Hampshire College
… provides an incentive for members of the campus community and represents another step in our efforts to reduce carbon … Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash. "Our colleges and universities cultivate the thinkers and leaders who will define the future," said Wahid Nawabi, …
Read More
News
Recent Hampshire Alums Published in Internationally Recognized Science Journals
… Amy Diehl Recent Hampshire alums David Blumenstiel 13F and Madison McDonald 15F were both published in internationally recognized archeological science and physical anthropology research journals for their Div III … chemistry, environmental science, physical anthropology, and archaeological science. Blumenstiel and McDonald were two …
Read More
News
State College Republican Chair
… philosophy student, is interested in economic issues and in a renewal of intellectual conservatism, or as he … the Republican Party in Massachusetts needs to be renewed and that demoralized Republican youth need to be reenergized. … his party. The MACR works to elect Republican candidates, and Tsay spent weeks on the campaign trail last year, …
Read More
News
'Beet' Poetry
… word, coined by Hampshire College student Sam Teitel 05F and coauthor Steve Subrizi, an Emerson graduate, is used as … Beetitude, thus defined, fits in nicely with Teitel's and Subrizi's approach to poetry. They want reactions, … spoken word tour. They want to make their presence known, and if they have to do weird things to people's metabolisms …
Read More
News
Catching Waves in the ERP Lab
… the relayed electrical activity in the brain detected and amplified through the ERP lab software and hardware give Jane Couperus a glimpse of the differing, … specializes in, a relatively new cross between psychology and neuroscience that studies the way children's brains …
Read More
Faculty
Frank Holmquist
… of politics, received his B.A. from Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. His interests are in the … areas of comparative politics, peasant political economy, and African and Third World development. Frank Holmquist …
Read More
News
New Study By 50 World Scientists Warns of More Severe Threat from Global Warming
… analysis coauthored by Hampshire Professor Seeta Sistla and 50 scientists from around the world finds that warming … massive stocks of carbon built up over thousands of years, and remained relatively secure until this point. The Yale-led … at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Crowther …
Read More
News
Hampshire in Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013
… Guide to Colleges 2013 How do you single out the best and most interesting of the more than 2,200 four-year … the United States? One resource that parents, counselors, and college-bound students have turned to for more than 25 … by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske and takes "a selective, subjective, and systematic look at …
Read More