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Hampshire College Earns Living Building Certification for R.W. Kern Center
… center joins just 16 other Living Buildings certified to date and is the largest Living Certified higher-education project in … want them to ask, ‘why would anyone build any other way?’" The highest of three certification pathways …
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Rebecca Thomas Earns Fulbright Award to Teach in Ecuador
… Rebecca Thomas Earns Fulbright Award to Teach in Ecuador Hampshire College alum Rebecca Thomas has … Student Program, the nation's largest exchange program, to teach in Ecuador as an English Language Assistant. Thomas … that trains future English teachers. Currently she is a senior program assistant at the Five College Center for …
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Division III: Computer Programmer, Hackathon Winner, and Business Founder
… Hackathon Winner, and Business Founder Zeke Nierenberg 09F is graduating from Hampshire College with more than just a degree: His Division III project paved the way for establishing his own business. "It started out as a … and interactive conversations themselves. "You used to have to hire a programmer, now you can do it on your own," …
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Professor Ethan Meyers and UMass Colleagues Win National Science Foundation Grant to Study Brain Function
… and UMass Colleagues Win National Science Foundation Grant to Study Brain Function Abigail Meisel An interdisciplinary … Foundation (NSF) as part of a nationwide initiative to study deep-brain function for new insights into neural and … includes four researchers at UMass, where the project is based, merges expertise in data science, cognitive …
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The Division Free Bell
… 76F passed his Div III, he felt that the college needed a way for students to celebrate such a momentous event. After graduation, he … a distinct mythology has grown up around the bell. There is now a strong belief that it is extremely unlucky to ring …
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Resources and Responsibilities for Program and Activity Directors
… has adopted a Policy on Safety and Wellbeing of Minors to promote the well-being and safety of minors who … directors") must take the steps outlined below on this site. We have developed a checklist to assist you in … The first step for program or activity directors is to begin the registration process by completing a personal …
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Hampshire Professor D’Avanzo Writes Eco-Mystery
… Sea (Torrey House Press) was released on June 7. The book is the first in what D’Avanzo says will be her Maine Oceanography Mystery series. D'Avanzo uses fiction to engage readers in climate-change science and politics. … understand the lives and trials of climate researchers by way of a novel. For more information about the book and …
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Photograph Inspires Ravett's Latest Film Project
… led Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett back to his birth country of Poland for his newest film project, … but he has no idea where she may be living today if she is still alive. “The goal is not that I have to find her. … research the archives of a cultural organization, and get a feel for a place that made such a strong impression on …
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Alumni Profile: Video game developer Noah Falstein 75F
… is a video game developer and producer, and not only gets to create new games but also gets to spend many hours playing … for his Div III project in 1979, using it as a demo to get a job after graduation. "At the time, game development … You can visit Falstein's website at www.theinspiracy.com Alumni … Among my friends here at Hampshire, Noah …
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Professor Ravett's 'Holding Hands With Ilse' To Premiere at Multicultural Film Fest
… Professor Ravett's 'Holding Hands With Ilse' To Premiere at Multicultural Film Fest For Hampshire College … by scholars and filmmakers. REFERENCE Abraham Ravett is interviewed by the Amherst Bulletin about his search for Ilse: http://www.amherstbulletin.com/Archives/2015/10/23artRavettSearch-hg-10… Digital …
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Dana Pollan's Family Cookbook Encourages Healthy Eating
… two sisters—Lori and Tracy—are busy mothers with children to feed, and sometimes get stuck trying to come up with new ideas for dinners. They … eating together, a family becomes closer. “The family meal is where we listen to others, express opinions, and wait to …
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Inventory of Anti-Racist Education, Actions, and Support Systems
… Actions, and Support Systems As an institution committed to social justice, Hampshire insists that Black Lives Matter and aspires to be an anti-racist institution. While these commitments are … racism and advantage the privileged. White supremacy is an ideology based on the colonial notion that white people …
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Chemicals of Fear
… During her last month there, she was given freedom to design her own project, and chose to study Azteca ants. … eating the pests that eat coffee." The threat to the ants is the Dipteran parasitoid , a tiny fly that seeks out Azteca … into larvae and kill the ants. Chemical compounds are one way that insects communicate, Mathis explains, and she found …
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Chemicals of Fear
… During her last month there, she was given freedom to design her own project, and chose to study Azteca ants. … eating the pests that eat coffee." The threat to the ants is the Dipteran parasitoid , a tiny fly that seeks out Azteca … into larvae and kill the ants. Chemical compounds are one way that insects communicate, Mathis explains, and she found …
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Graphic Novel Merges Art and Psychology
… The Listening Cone , Jeane Cohen's Division III project is a dark, cerebral exploration of five mental health … have trouble talking about the work, because it's supposed to be experienced visually," she says. The book has no words, … says. "I also took advantage of the Five Colleges, just to get a (grasp) of absolutely everything I could in order to …
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Hampshire Invites the Public to Humanities Events
… Hampshire Invites the Public to Humanities Events Hampshire College invited the public to attend open sessions during a June 6-8 alumni event called … and participated in a Q&A. He produced the short film and is a member of the national Commission on Humanities and …
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Hot Work Program
… Hot Work Program Purpose To establish guidelines for the appropriate health and safety … protect property. Definitions Fire Watch An individual who is trained in the proper use of fire extinguishers and is … performed, the hot work permit will be kept at the work site and made available to all employees performing the work …
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Muhammad Delivers Eqbal Lecture on Race and Policing
… said Khalil Gibran Muhammad, compelled him as a student to try and understand racial criminalization and its history … said. At the heart of the issue, says Professor Muhammad, is that “this is not a rogue officer problem. This is a rogue … even be defined in a system built, he argued, in a way that was hostile to black freedom and where many laws …
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Alumni Profile: Its Hampshire. You cant just do one thing.
… organization that recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities for two years. Following … to pursue a joint degree in public health and law. She is teaching in Tulsa, Oklahoma, focusing on bilingual … Rico: "Patients would see clinical trials as ways to get access to free healthcare [and] medication. A lot of them …
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KIMBERLY CHANG's NEW BOOK EARNS NATIONAL ACCLAIM
… NEW BOOK EARNS NATIONAL ACCLAIM Abigail Meisel Accomplice to Memory weaves together fiction, anthropology, and memoir … under her Chinese name, Q. M. Zhang, Accomplice to Memory is a hybrid work that stands at the crossroads of fiction, … it easier for Chinese students fearing persecution to get visas to the United States and remain here. “I used the …
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Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students
… Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students Anne Pinkerton 91F On opening day, August 20, we were thrilled to welcome 119 new students. Of this group, 79 are … One was the Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and another is fluent in Esperanto. One performed with the Berlin …
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Folk Music Collective
… guitars, mandolins, fiddles, whatever works when it comes to the task of making a little harmonious noise. For a while … Hampshire's Folk Music Collective. Emily Haynes Horne 07F is one of the founders of the group. Though she enjoyed … year. "Since then we've moved to the Greenhouse, and we get a good number of people. It was the (students who live in …
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Kimberly Chang's New Book Earns National Acclaim
… the power of secrets. Her recently published Accomplice to Memory (Kaya Press, 2017) originated in what Chang says … under her Chinese name, Q. M. Zhang, Accomplice to Memory is a hybrid work that stands at the crossroads of fiction, … it easier for Chinese students fearing persecution to get visas to the United States and remain here. “I used the …
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Salman Hameed: Producing Science for Muslim Societies
… on this world three billion miles from Earth. Hameed is recording the talk for “Science ka Adda,” roughly Café Scientifique, a web series he created to foster a stronger interest in science in Pakistan, his … the role it could play in Pakistan. In April 2015, on her way home after a political discussion at T2F, Mahmud was shot …
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Hampshire Professor Nathan McClain Receives MacDowell Fellowship
… Literary Arts Nathan McClain has been awarded a fellowship to one of the most prestigious artists residencies in the … of two collections of poetry: Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), longlisted for the Massachusetts Book … sabbatical, life still happens, interruptions still get in the way. So, to have this time to concentrate and …
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