Faculty

Sandra Matthews

… Sandra Matthews, associate professor emerita of film and photography, is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A.).  … the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Women In Photography …

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News

With New Covid-19 Policies in Place, Hampshire’s 50th Anniversary Still Slated for in-Person Celebration October 15-17

… Covid-19 policies for our campus, outlining expectations and requirements for students, employees, and visitors. You can read the full announcement on the … College's Covid-19 information page . With these policies and precautions in place, the College plans to proceed with …

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Staff

Mary James 72F

… Oregon Mary James is A.A. Knowlton Professor of Physics and dean for Institutional Diversity at Reed College. In her teaching and research, Mary specializes in accelerator physics, classical electrodynamics, and physics outreach. After earning her B.A. from Hampshire, …

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Hampshire Students Participate in School of America Watch Vigil

… SOA Watch was formed in 1990 to work to close the school, and their annual vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, where … regimes. The story of Nieves Ayress, a survivor of torture and imprisonment at the hands of Alberto Pinochet's regime in … in the 1970s, inspired Lifton-Herman, Svenja Schwarz 13F, and others to take part in this year's vigil. Ayress visited …

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Children of Selamta

… themselves, all individual, all with unique stories and takes on life that, despite the common background, can't … Capital Foundation that provides support for children and teens who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS. When she … she had reservations, unsure how the youths would view her and how she would fit in to the unfamiliar culture. Those …

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Update on Bon Appétit

… to provide dining options three meals a day on weekdays and two meals a day on weekends, but will shift dining services to the Bridge Café, Kern Café, and the HampStore, and expand the capacity of these locations. For this reason …

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Admissions Counselor

Arpita Kumar 03F

… Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has also been distributed by Comcast on Demand, UMC, and PBS. Arpita is one of the three winning writers to work … fellowship . As a part of the fellowship, Arpita wrote and directed a short narrative film, My Dear Americans . The …

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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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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 …

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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 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 …

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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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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

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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 . …

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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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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 …

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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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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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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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