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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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 …
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Daniel Warner
… Warner, professor emeritus of music, holds an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in music from Princeton University. He is a composer and electronic artist whose sound and installation work has been presented recently at The …
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Notable Alumni
Leslie Hiebert 73F
… her to remote areas of Alaska to try cases under unusual and novel circumstances. She continues to live in Alaska and participates in criminal justice reform and legal education through programs such as We The People, …
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March 26: WORD! Festival, Featuring Script by Jorrell Watkins
… by Robyn Sutton-Fernandez, Mount Holyoke College; Marcus and Christopher by Chris Gonzalez, UMass Amherst; and The RPO by Jordan Reed, UMass Amherst. The productions address race and diversity, based on playwright August Wilson's idea that …
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Judy Bornstein 82F
… Mateo, California Judy Bornstein is a managing director and the chief financial officer of American Infrastructure … in the sectors of infrastructure, natural resources, and real property. Judy has over 15 years of experience in finance and operations: previous positions include serving as chief …
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Hampshire College Hosts Mount Holyoke Students Displaced by Storm Damage
… storm on July 17. Mead Hall was unoccupied at the time, and there were no injuries reported. This is not the first example of mutual aid between Mount Holyoke and Hampshire College, or between Hampshire and the nearby community. In August of 2020, Hampshire …
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Boston Globe Sunday Reports Hampshire's 'Major Leap Forward' Toward Sustainability
… legacy at the forefront of sustainability efforts, and calls the college's latest efforts toward its goal to be … than 20 years, the R.W. Kern Center, as a living building and a 'model of sustainability.' Reporter Laurie Loisel also … Hampshire's focus on involving students in the planning and design of the building, and leveraging the building even …
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