… Stephan Jost appointed Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario Hampshire alum and Board Member … Stephan Jost has been appointed  Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Jost has been Director of the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) since 2011. Under his …

… Division III: Building the Nonprofit Restaurant By Michael Samuels 09F Allegra Fisher 09F literally went around the world on a field-study to learn about ethnic and fusion foods. Then, through the Five College consortium, she took cooking and …

… Eula Biss 95F’s Newest Book Examines the Author’s Uneasy Relationship with Capitalism Writer and … of capitalism and privilege. Biss was interviewed by the Financial Times about the book and the experiences that led her to the subject. An …

… In her Div III, Laura Howard beams in on the shady world of museum acquisition Abigail Meisel To view some of the greatest art heists in history, just visit a museum. You’ll see statuary from the Acropolis on display at London’s British Museum, for …

… Mystery of the Mummies Eight Hampshire students and their professor gather around a table in the Cole Science Center. One issue tops their agenda on this cold winter morning: the health of the people in a faraway Chilean fishing …

… and Artist Andrew Sapini 17F’s Div III Art Show Focused on the History of the Emergency Medical Service As Andrew Sapini 17F began to map out their Div III project, the recent graduate was looking for ways to combine their …

… March 26, 2019: A Letter from the Options Working Group Dear Hampshire Community, On Thursday, March 21, we had the first opportunity to meet as a group, and we wanted to … open-minded, objective, and constructive feedback to the College as proposals are vetted and analyzed. When we …

… Ken Burns and Panelists "On the Public Intellectual," Hampshire College, Sunday, June 21, … There was a time when prominent, public discourse about the nature of the human condition was considered a necessity in a civil …

… Statement by President Lash on Raising the Flag On Campus This Morning This morning we raised the United States flag to full staff at Hampshire College after a two-week discussion period about what the flag means to members of the Hampshire community. College …

… Healing the Spiritual Wounds of War By Taliesin Nyala 07F From the earliest times, humans have been inspired by stories, not … simple tales but as metaphors for explaining mysteries of the soul. Professor of Humanities Robert Meagher is one such …

… The Superman Orchestra By Taliesin Nyala 07F The animation is gorgeous. No two scenes are alike. Each has the same structure and is the perfect length. And they are …

… Hampshire Faculty Members Named First Cohort of Ethics and the Common Good Faculty Fellows Ethics and the Common Good Project , in partnership with the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion , …

… Div III: War and Peace in the Pioneer Valley By Taliesin Nyala 07F When many people … she says. Hunter's Division III, "War and Peace in the Pioneer Valley," is an anthropological work of creative … of seven essays all tackling a different aspect of the antiwar movement in the Pioneer Valley. The work is both …

… The Envelope, Please Elora Pindell 08F I found Zaily Garcia sitting in the art room sketching on a small piece of canvas. She smiled when I came in. I handed her the envelope with her name on it without saying a word. …

… Listening and the Brain In his first semester as a student at Hampshire … Blumberg took steroids to reduce cochlear inflammation and the condition cleared up. But Blumberg's curiosity didn't. He found books on the subject and became interested in hearing loss. "I was …

… Hampshire College Mourns the Loss of David E. Smith Dear friends, It is with great sadness that I write to inform you of the death of David E. Smith, professor emeritus of English … you know, David was one of Hampshire's founders, joining the faculty in 1970. He was tremendously influential in …

… Collage exhibition presents speculative fictions of the future — and an invitation to create your own Amy … 5 to 6 p.m.; and a series of community workshops led by the artist. So be it. See to it. takes its title from the words of science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. Butler’s …

… Professor Monique Roelofs' The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic by Professor Monique …

… 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 blows my mind," said Baldwin …

… Chief Diversity Officer to Serve as the Chair of the Board for Lighthouse Holyoke Hampshire’s Chief Diversity … Sutton-Fernandez has accepted an invitation to serve as the Chair of the Board for Lighthouse Holyoke. Lighthouse …

… Conference Examining Alcohol Policy in the United States For his Hampshire senior thesis, or … cultural and social taboos around alcohol policy in the United States. By tracing the history of both alcohol use and legal controls in the …

… Burton Conducts Bee Research in China, and Learns The Language By Mike Medeiros For Sawyer Burton, the decision to study in China in summer 2015 turned into a three-month research project at the Anhui Agricultural Institute (AAU) in Hefei, which is in …

… Alum Jon Krakauer 72F’s True Crime Bestseller "Under the Banner of Heaven" Made into Television Limited Series Jon … a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild , Into Thin Air , and Under the Banner of Heaven , the latter of which has been turned …

… New Professors in the School of Critical Social Inquiry The School of Critical Social Inquiry welcomed three new … right). Professor Pickbourn taught at Keene State College the past few years, but had taught a course at Hampshire in …

… 'Climate change will change everything, including the prospects for war and peace' Mike Medeiros “I don’t … “But climate change will change everything, including the prospects for war and peace.” In this year’s Five College … Pritzen Lecture delivered here on December 2, Klare said the way in which world leaders address issues arising from …