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Yash Patankar 06F Receives Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship
… Hampshire College graduate Yash Patankar 06F is one of the recipients of the John H. Cophenhaver and William Thomas Fellowship at Dartmouth …
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Faculty
Rebecca Miller
… conducted dissertation research as a Fulbright Fellow on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada. Professor Miller is the author of Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean (Wesleyan University Press, 2008; 2nd …
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Streaming Knowledge
… school at Arizona State University (ASU), where she is now the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology and an … expert on urban ecology and sustainability. She studies the interaction of climate variation and change in … achievements were honored when she was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ASU’s Grimm Lab studies how …
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Hampshire College Represents at 2021 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival
… 04F and Emily Drummer 09F, recently exhibited work at the 2021 Mimesis Documentary Film Festival in Boulder, … Richie, documenting decades of correspondence between the friends. Tucker’s Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf examines the power of public protest through the lens of an Austrian …
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Hampshire Grad Worked on Frozen's Academy Award-winning Animation
… animation. His Division III (senior project) focused on the history of animation, looking at animated films from the 1930s and 1940s in comparison to those of today. After … which he describes as "animating everything moving on the screen besides the characters." He ended up working on …
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Staff
Amanda Saklad
… Senior Support Technician Amanda Saklad (she/her) is the Senior Support Technician. She maintains the campus network, WiFi, and phone infrastructure. Amanda … with projectors. Growing up south of Boston, she is the first in her family to graduate college. She graduated …
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Narratives of Struggle and Hope
… of Struggle and Hope Abigail Meisel What should be the goal of residential drug treatment? Most people would say that sobriety is the only legitimate marker of success. But Clara Wagner, a Div III student, would disagree. “Sobriety is the main goal, but people in treatment have to gain a sense …
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Div III Profile: Suhilah Booker Studies Benefits of Movement to Early Learners
… She wanted to work with children but not teach. The solution? An 85-page, interdisciplinary thesis on … movement in education — and an example of a student making the most of Hampshire’s program of self-designed studies. … came during her second year, while she was volunteering at the College’s Early Learning Center. She noticed that …
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Division III Profile: Nicole DelRosso on DNA Computing
… we read all primary literature on what was going on in the field at that moment. That was really exciting to me.” … Division III project, came about after she was awarded the Four College Biomath Fellowship, which made it possible for her to work in the Smith College labs with Professor Nathan Derr and a team …
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March 30: ASK for Social Justice Conference (Register now!)
… March 30: ASK for Social Justice Conference (Register now!) The Cultural Center's tenth annual ASK Conference is on Saturday, March 30. The conference will be held in Franklin Patterson Hall and is free for members of the Hampshire College community and, with online …
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Notable Alumni
Brett Morgen 87F
… 87F Filmmaker Brett Morgen’s work includes Chicago 10 , The Kid Stays in the Picture , and the Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck Morgen followed …
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Jonah Taylor Receives Design Award
… American Inhouse Design Award from Graphic Design USA. The awards honor the best design from within companies across a number of categories. Taylor's award recognizes the work he did while interning at PolicyMap, a data and …
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April 11: Update from Interim President Kenneth Rosenthal
… 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, students, and alums. I’ve started meeting with all the presidents of the Five Colleges, and will meet with our …
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Hampshire Student's Essay on American Chestnut Trees Published
… Student's Essay on American Chestnut Trees Published The American Chestnut Foundation has published an essay by … College student Olivia Biller 12S. Biller wrote about the reintegration of American chestnut trees into forests. … produce large amounts of nuts, so reintegrating them into the American landscape benefits the entire ecosystem. "When …
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Hampshire Team at EcoHackSF
… Team at EcoHackSF Michael Samuels 09F "To our surprise, the event wasn't a competition!" said Zeke Nierenberg 09F, … students. Those Hackathons were competitions, and the Hampshire team won prizes in both . EcoHack brings … find creative solutions to environmental issues. This was the fourth annual event, but the first time that it was held …
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Board Member
Carol Salzman 71F
… Carol Salzman 71F Carol Salzman 71F Secretary to the Board Carol Salzman joined the Board of Trustees in 2014. Carol is a retired physician … at Georgetown University. Her doctoral research was in the role of lingual lipase and lipid digestion in neonates. …
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Staff
Karla Zarate-Ramirez 92F P16
… 92F P16 Karla Zarate-Ramirez 92F P16 Karla has worked in the nonprofit sector for over 19 years and is currently an executive director of development at the University of Hawaii Foundation, where she works closely with the College of Engineering and the College of Natural …
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Faculty
Kristen Luschen
… studies, received her B.A. and M.A. in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received her … conceptions of youth shape school culture and policy and the experiences of young people in them. Professor Luschen's … has examined how adult female educators working within the umbrella of pregnancy prevention services at an urban …
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Baba Hillman
… Duke University and an M.F.A. in Film and Performance from the University of California, San Diego. Hillman’s films have screened at festivals and museums including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles Film Forum, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Rencontres …
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Tech Startup Founded by Two Hampshire College Alums Raises $4.7 Million in Seed Funding
… seed funding to support its research and development work. The Berkeley-based Obviously AI is a no code artificial … can’t afford data science teams. Dave came up with the solution of a no code platform to solve this dilemma … Dave says. “This was intriguing because I noticed that all the questions about customers were being asked by …
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Hampshire Student Competes in Bluegrass Festival
… Hampshire College student Tatiana Hargreaves competed in the 2014 FreshGrass bluegrass festival in September. The festival took place at Mass MoCa, and included numerous … for young musicians. There were three main categories in the contest: Best Band, Best Duo, and Best Banjoist. …
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Feb. 21-22: ASK for Social Justice Conference
… Feb. 21-22: ASK for Social Justice Conference The Cultural Center's eleventh annual ASK for Social Justice Conference is on February 21-22. The conference will be held in Franklin Patterson Hall and is free for members of the Hampshire College community and, with online …
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Staff
Juecheng Zhao 12F
… Zhao 12F Juecheng Zhao 12F P.R. of China Juecheng Zhao is the student trustee alternate. He is currently a third year … strategies, and prophets. His studies seek to validate the importance of prescience as the reasoning of the state. He is not the CEO of any …
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Notable Alumni
Lee Smolin 72F
… Smolin 72F Lee Smolin 72F Physicist Lee Smolin is one of the world's leading gravitational theorists. His books include The Trouble with Physics and Time Reborn Theoretical physicist Smolin is one of the world’s leading gravitational theorists. A founding and …
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Notable Alumni
Rhys Ernst 01S
… 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 … Globe-winning show Transparent , Ernst was awarded with the ACLU Liberty Award for his work on transgender …
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