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Three Honored by Princess Grace Foundation-USA
… Hampshire College student Allison Waite (pictured right) and alums Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Meredith Lackey are winners of 2014 Princess Grace Awards. Waite won an Undergraduate Film Scholarship, and Hunt-Ehrlich won a Graduate School Scholarship. …
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Hampshire Team Bikes for Food Bank
… together hundreds of dedicated individuals, businesses and teams who have raised more than $135,000. “There are some … things that every human being should have access to. Food and shelter are two of those. With this fund raiser, the Food … one of those locally, right in the community that I live and work in,” Dávila says. “It’s also great to be able to do …
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Professor Girmay's New Book Is A National Poetry Month Pick by Oprah.com, NBC News
… Girmay's New Book Is A National Poetry Month Pick by Oprah.com, NBC News Professor Aracelis Girmay's new book The Black … including the Los Angeles Times , NBC News, Oprah.com, and Chicago Review of Books . The poetry collection was … by critic Rigoberto González in the Los Angeles Times and NBCNews.com, where the writer dubbed it one of five …
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Div II Profile: JOE NEWLIN 15F
… JOE NEWLIN 15F CONCENTRATION TITLE American Government and Constitutional Law AREAS OF FOCUS U.S. political and philosophical history FACULTY COMMITTEE Will Ryan, … Gov” aspect, which has enabled me to achieve the balance and direction I wanted in my Div. THE PLAN Extract and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 . …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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, …
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'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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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