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Jutta Sperling
… been translated into French, Italian, and Greek. Personal Website Jutta Sperling 381116 Professor of History Regular … been translated into French, Italian, and Greek. Personal Website … Jutta Sperling …
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Update from President Nelson: March 8, 2019
Update from President Nelson: March 8, 2019 As we begin spring break, I wanted to reach out and give you a brief update on our progress. Many of you here on campus have heard some of this already in our standing meetings and working groups. It’s been a …
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Zoom FAQ
Zoom FAQ Below are frequently asked questions about our Hampshire Zoom accounts. If you have a question not answered below, feel free to reach out to the Help Desk and/or view Zoom's Getting Started for additional assistance. Licensing and Sign in Who …
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Introducing Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & U.S. Literatures Dr. Caoimhe Harlock
Introducing Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & U.S. Literatures Dr. Caoimhe Harlock Hampshire College is pleased to welcome a number of exciting new professors to campus to support its fall class. Before joining the faculty at Hampshire, Caoimhe …
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Hampshire College Receives Historic $5 Million Gift Honoring Alum Ken Burns
Hampshire College Receives Historic $5 Million Gift Honoring Alum Ken Burns Hampshire College announces a new $5 million investment in its Change in the Making campaign. This second $5 million gift to the campaign, given by an anonymous benefactor, will …
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Conversations, Handstands, Nerves: Orientation Weekend 2015
Conversations, Handstands, Nerves: Orientation Weekend 2015 Empathetic. Voyeuristic. Unsettling. Intimate. Complex. One by one, thirty students volunteer a single word to describe James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, the book they’d been assigned months …
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Mother-Child Relationships
Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Mother-Child Relationships By Taliesin Nyala 07F Most striking about Division III student Melanie Parker 05F is her conscientiousness when describing her writing approach to questions of what is natural and what is horrific in …
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From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection
From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection Justine Haus keeps a folder of ideas. Magazine clippings. Quotes. Phrases heard from a passerby or on the radio. When she's about to begin a new story, she opens the folder up to see …
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Putting More In, Getting More Out
Putting More In, Getting More Out By Taliesin Nyala 07F When he was shopping around for a college, Nathan Holiday 09F had a list of interests he wanted to pursue: math, physics, religion, philosophy, and art. He says it wasn't until he got to Hampshire …
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Researching Better Ways to Teach 21st Century Science
Researching Better Ways to Teach 21st Century Science Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognition and Education Tim Zimmerman is using a $409,000 National Science Foundation grant to research ways to better teach 21st century scientific practices. The grant …
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Randy Furash-Stewart 99F Wins Advancing Equity & Justice Award from the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth
Randy Furash-Stewart 99F Wins Advancing Equity & Justice Award from the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth Emma Rose DeFelice Educator and gender and sexuality alliance adviser Randy Furash-Stewart and colleague Jeremy Mailloux are recognized for …
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Hampshire Mourns Founding Faculty Member Miriam Slater
Hampshire Mourns Founding Faculty Member Miriam Slater Founding faculty member and Harold F. Johnson Professor Emeritus of History Miriam Slater, who taught at Hampshire for more than 20 years, died peacefully at her home in the Rockridge Retirement …
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Introducing Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Sarah E. Jenkins
Introducing Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Sarah E. Jenkins Hampshire College is pleased to welcome a substantial cohort of new professors to campus to support its growing enrollment and incoming fall class. Among the …
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Karen A. Frenkel 73F Delivers a Documentary Project on Her Family and the Holocaust
Karen A. Frenkel 73F Delivers a Documentary Project on Her Family and the Holocaust Hampshire College alum Karen A. Frenkel 73F produced Family Treasures Lost and Found , in which she is the reluctant star, telling the story of researching her family’s …
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In Memoriam 1970–1979
… Churchwell Dees 71F, Obituary published on ForeverMissed.com , October 10, 2022 Stephen Hamilton Dunbar 71F, Obituary … Journal on March 9, 2004 ; biography posted on the website of his final project, Greenspiration Odyssey Heidi … McTee Lyon 78F, Obituary published on the UC Berkeley website on February 17, 2002 Elena Marie Malko 78F Victor …
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Updates from Health Services
… COVID-19 is changing rapidly, so please look at the CDC website for up-to-date news and more information about … appointment for Sunday (4/25), go to the CoVerified website . Enter your Hampshire email as log-in (e.g. … c19testing@hampshire.edu . You must use the CoVerified website to make a vaccination appointment – the phone app …
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Transfer Student Leo Giannini S23 Explores the Intersection of Biochemistry and Art
Transfer Student Leo Giannini S23 Explores the Intersection of Biochemistry and Art Div II student Leo Giannini transferred to Hampshire to study what she’s most passionate about, without restrictions. Her interests combine elements of science and art, …
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Architecture Memories, Havana Interiors
Architecture Memories, Havana Interiors Hampshire College student Julia Wadsworth's Division III project, "Architecture Memories, Havana Interiors," pairs urban documentary photography with social science. In January 2002, Wadsworth was among a group of …
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Division III: Bats Around the World
Division III: Bats Around the World Justin Baldwin arrived at Hampshire with an interest in ornithology, the study of birds. A semester abroad in Costa Rica, however, cemented an interest in another sort of winged creature: the bat. "The diversity of bats …
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Layoffs Update and Ongoing Discussions: February 13, 2019
Layoffs Update and Ongoing Discussions: February 13, 2019 Dear Hampshire Community, I want to update you on a number of key issues since I last wrote to you. First, I know that upcoming layoffs are on everyone’s minds. We’ve sought to be as careful …
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Hampshire Student Murphy Hunn Bridges History and Craft through Metalworking
Hampshire Student Murphy Hunn Bridges History and Craft through Metalworking Amy Diehl We sat down (virtually) with second-year Div II student Murphy Hunn 18F to learn more about his academic work and his proposed Div III project—building a historically …
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'Beet' Poetry
'Beet' Poetry Beetitude . The word, coined by Hampshire College student Sam Teitel 05F and coauthor Steve Subrizi, an Emerson graduate, is used as the title of their latest joint poetry collection. The genesis: random conversations spurred by stage banter …
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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F
Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F Give Kamil Peters 06F an oxyacetylene torch and a piece of discarded steel, and you'll soon find art where scrap metal used to be. Even as a student, the talented metal sculptor is already getting commissions for …
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Ravett Recordings Preserve "A Certain Kind of Life"
Ravett Recordings Preserve "A Certain Kind of Life" Film and photography professor Abraham Ravett takes on projects for varied reasons. But underlying his decades of diverse work is a constant urge, a process of "resurrecting, archiving, and bringing a …
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Hampshire College Welcomes First Non-Human Scholars-In-Residence
Hampshire College Welcomes First Non-Human Scholars-In-Residence Hampshire College is proud to announce the founding of the world's only academic program for non-human species. The first scholars-in-residence, plasmodial slime molds known as Physarum …
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