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Alum Gordon Williams 89F Credits Hampshire for Love of Math
… Alum Gordon Williams 89F Credits Hampshire for Love of Math Alum Gordon Williams 89F, who recently returned to … in Mathematics (HCSSiM), is a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the editor of Mathematics Magazine. Williams is a discrete geometer: …
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Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett Soon to Retire, but Still Screening
… Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett Soon to Retire, but Still Screening At the end of the upcoming academic year, Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett will wrap up almost …
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Hampshire College Mourns Longtime Former Director of the Early Learning Center Lynne Brill
… Hampshire College Mourns Longtime Former Director of the Early Learning Center Lynne Brill Brill directed … than 20 years. She died on August 28, 2025, at the age of 78 . Born and raised in Albany, Brill followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother by entering Smith College. …
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A Weekend of Celebration: Hampshire’s 55th Anniversary and Family & Friends
… A Weekend of Celebration: Hampshire’s 55th Anniversary and Family & … one another, and have fun. Attendees commemorated 55 years of radical and positive Hampshire changemaking, made lasting … with excitement. Hampshire was bustling during the weekend of October 17–19, as more than 500 visitors came to campus. …
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Emeritus Professor Robert Coles Publishes Book of Poetry With Alum Kimberly Headley 01F
… Emeritus Professor Robert Coles Publishes Book of Poetry With Alum Kimberly Headley 01F Headley met Coles in … ever since. Hampshire Emeritus Associate Professor of African-American Literature Robert Coles has published a new book of poetry with ATU Publishing, which was founded by alum …
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Current Students Find and Follow Personalized Paths of Study
… Current Students Find and Follow Personalized Paths of Study Hampshire’s unique student-designed curriculum lets … from top left] Lila Maher F24 “I’m in the first year of my Div II, studying dress history with some normal history … interests kinda ended up merging. I made my dress and all of my undergarments in independent studies. It’s been really …
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Hampshire College Professor Jess Erion Is Narrative Designer of a New Virtual Reality Game
… College Professor Jess Erion Is Narrative Designer of a New Virtual Reality Game Visiting Assistant Professor of Game Design Jess Erion worked on the immersive game Hotel … to one reviewer , “ Hotel Infinity is a standout example of true room-scale VR, and a must-own for anyone interested …
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Hampshire Mourns Long-time Professor of Economics Stanley Warner
… Hampshire Mourns Long-time Professor of Economics Stanley Warner Warner taught at the College for … almost four decades. He died on November 22, at the age of 87. From 1973 to his retirement in 2010, Warner taught economics in what was formerly known as the School of Critical Inquiry at Hampshire. From his obituary : …
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Filmmaker Lysandra Petersson 00F’s Lifetime of Reel Adventures
… Filmmaker Lysandra Petersson 00F’s Lifetime of Reel Adventures Petersson broke into filmmaking after … series and films . We spoke with her about the impact of her experience as a student on the work she does now. How … I wasn’t thinking about film as a career. In the spring of my Div II year (2003), I attended a screening of a film …
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On Podcast, President Chrisler Discusses Hampshire Within the Challenges of American Higher Education
… Chrisler Discusses Hampshire Within the Challenges of American Higher Education College President Jennifer … producer Dan Torres, and Professor Dr. Amilcar Shabazz of the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Tuesday, February 3. The four …
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Five Colleges Launches New Online Access to the Shared Collections of Six Museums
… Launches New Online Access to the Shared Collections of Six Museums More than 100,000 objects can be accessed and … The Five College Consortium has launched a major update of a website that gives students, researchers, and art lovers … access to over 100,000 objects from the shared collections of five campus art museums and nearby Historic Deerfield. The …
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Hampshire College Names Alum Elle Chan 87F as Chair-Elect of the Board of Trustees
… Hampshire College Names Alum Elle Chan 87F as Chair-Elect of the Board of Trustees The Hampshire graduate, entrepreneur, and … trustee will lead the College’s board in its next chapter of sustainability and innovation. Hampshire College announced …
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Director of the James Baldwin Scholars Program Karina Fernández Montilla 02F Honored with DEI and Justice Award
… Director of the James Baldwin Scholars Program Karina Fernández … directs the program as well as serving as assistant dean of advising. We spoke with Fernández Montilla about her … By the time I was going to high school, I was very aware of how much my family had sacrificed to give me the …
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Dr. J Finley 00F, Professor of Africana Studies Who Researches Black Women’s Humor, to Deliver Commencement Address
… Dr. J Finley 00F, Professor of Africana Studies Who Researches Black Women’s Humor, to … interested in Hampshire. “I was drawn to the idea of doing something conventional in an unconventional way,” … might be how she stayed at Hampshire. “I was a fish out of water,” she remembers. “I hadn’t traveled much. The people …
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Hampshire Hosts Local Branch of a Worldwide Game Jam
… Hampshire Hosts Local Branch of a Worldwide Game Jam Game design and the College — both of them innovative and multidisciplinary — were made for each … wildly creative, so it’s unsurprising that there’s a lot of interest among Hampshire students. As Visiting Assistant …
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Hampshire’s Spirit of Invention and the Center for Design
… Hampshire’s Spirit of Invention and the Center for Design Two Hampshire alums … countless innovative designs and creative projects. One of them has stayed for more than three decades. In a way, … technology at Hampshire, and his Div III was the design of a lightweight, multi-terrain wheelchair. After …
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Open-Access Education: Students Win When Schools Team Up
… year at Hampshire College, Nicole DelRosso conducted most of her thesis research at nearby Smith College, under the direction of a committee of professors from both institutions. Her … between the towns of Amherst and South Hadley and the city of Northampton. And do they: the routes log almost a …
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$400,000 Luce Grant Funds Research, Cultural Connections
… grant awarded to Hampshire in 2011, and makes up the bulk of a total of $616,000 the College is allocating for the initiative over … from Western Massachusetts, to Boston and New York City, to China. Student projects in ranged from studies of …
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Three Hampshire Graduates Receive 2016-17 Fulbright Awards
… have received Fulbright grants from the US Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship … Fulbright US Student Program, selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, record of service, … project on public spaces in the development of the city. As an admissions counselor at Hampshire the past four …
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Fiction Writing Helped Amani Smith 15F Explore Relationships Between Time, Memory, and Generational Trauma
… III project employed fiction writing to explore concepts of time, memory, and generational trauma as a result of Korean colonial displacement and diaspora. We sat down … New York, but I have lived pretty much all around New York City growing up. I learned about Hampshire through a friend …
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Obituary Writer Ken Garfield 71F Got His Journalistic Start at Hampshire’s “Climax” Student Newspaper
… Hampshire’s “Climax” Student Newspaper Garfield, a member of the College’s second class, studied political science and … His work on the campus newspaper was the beginning of a lifelong writing career. “Hampshire helped foster a … of every Holocaust survivor living in Charlotte for the city’s main magazine. I wrote extensively about Charlotte …
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Alum Stephan Jost 87F Credits Hampshire for His Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Thinking
… different cultures and perspectives. Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and former Hampshire Trustee Stephan Jost … a museum in Toronto, which he calls “the most diverse city in the world.” Sixty percent of Toronto and 60 percent …
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Upcoming Events at the Five College Womens Studies Research Center
… present a reading by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley, editors of Not Your Mother's Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book . … Center is delighted to introduce an international group of distinguished scholars and activists whose work focuses on … Women of the Black Renaissance . The 1920s in New York City were a time of freedom, experimentation and …
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Commencement Address
… to stand before you today and speak to you. It's by leave of our students, to whom this day belongs. Let me use presidential privilege to call for the first of many rounds of applause for them. I think it's appropriate … problems, because at a face-to-face meeting in New York City I asked her, and what she said would help families find …
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Abraham Ravett Named Gregory S. Prince, Jr. Chair for Film and Photo Following Joukowsky Family Estate Gift
… College is grateful for a bequest from the estate of Artemis and Martha Joukowsky in the amount of $860,700. This gift caps a long legacy of support from the … and Greece, and spent ten years studying the Jordanian city of Petra. Artemis Joukowsky III is an American director, …
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