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Hampshire College Earns Living Building Certification for R.W. Kern Center

… Hampshire College Earns Living Building Certification for R.W. Kern Center Hampshire College and design firm Bruner/Cott & Associates announced today that … joins just 16 other Living Buildings certified to date and is the largest Living Certified higher-education project …

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Letter from the President on Plans for Spring 2021

… Letter from the President on Plans for Spring 2021 As we come to the end of a successful, … by how diligently our community has cared for one another and grateful that we’ve had the opportunity to spend time together. We learned a great deal, and I look forward to a spring semester that is improved as …

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James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time, and This Time

… James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time, and This Time How might James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, … in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement and considered one of the most important essays on the … our current conditions? How has his work prepared us for such a time as this? Has it prepared us? "The …

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Identity and Culture

… Identity and Culture By Taliesin Nyala 07F Rachel Rubinstein is as … assistant professor of Jewish American literature and culture, recently finished writing a book on Jewish … days she brings that knowledge—and plenty of questions for students to consider—to each course she creates. "I think …

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Charging Station for Electric Vehicles at Hampshire College

… Charging Station for Electric Vehicles at Hampshire College Electric vehicle … provides an incentive for members of the campus community and represents another step in our efforts to reduce carbon … Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash. "Our colleges and universities cultivate the thinkers and leaders who will …

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Putting More In, Getting More Out

… 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 that the … Japanese, and doing an EPEC course in philosophy. In his free time, he wakes up early on Saturday mornings to solve …

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Statement by President Lash In Support Of DACA Program and Undocumented Students

… Statement by President Lash In Support Of DACA Program and Undocumented Students Today, the Trump Administration announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), but will offer a … of DACA. In these uncertain times, we need each other, and I want to emphasize our support for the Dreamers. Six …

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Hampshire Places High In National RecycleMania Tournament

… national RecycleMania Tournament, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote … National Wildlife Federation. For complete details, visit RecycleMania.org.   Hampshire students in the group New …

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Div III Profile: Isaiah Mann, GlowLime Games, and Defender's Light

… Div III Profile: Isaiah Mann, GlowLime Games, and Defender's Light Joshua Murray This month, as Isaiah Mann … a collective that enables Five College students to design and create video games.  Establishing GlowLime games with an … means the organization will continue to provide an outlet for aspiring Five College gamers for years to come. Mann …

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Thoenes Research Awards for Alissa Graff, Marleigh Higgins

… Thoenes Research Awards for Alissa Graff, Marleigh Higgins Alissa Graff 10F and Marleigh Higgins 10F have been awarded Sander Thoenes … Research Awards. The Thoenes Awards support fieldwork and research costs involved in completion of recipients' …

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Alums Pallaoro and Tirado to Present Annual Tashmoo Lecture

… Alums Pallaoro and Tirado to Present Annual Tashmoo Lecture The Tashmoo … Series welcomes director/screenwriter Andrea Pallaoro and screenwriter Orlando Tirado, both Hampshire alums, who … Venice International Film Festival, Hannah was nominated for the Golden Lion, the event’s top prize, and Charlotte …

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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections

… Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation … can share their online collections with each other and the world. The current shared collections database at Five Colleges was developed more than 20 years ago, and this commitment to a consortial database has enriched …

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Professor Honored for Excellence in Ecological Education

… Professor Honored for Excellence in Ecological Education The Ecological Society … in ecological education through teaching, outreach, and mentoring. It was presented at the annual meeting of the … Foundation. Her work centers on the teaching of ecology and biology on a national scale. With grant support she …

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Alum Craig Sees Law Degree as Tool Kit for Social Change

… Alum Craig Sees 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 …

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2013 DIV IV weekend celebrates Culture, Mind, and Body

… 2013 DIV IV weekend celebrates Culture, Mind, and Body Hampshire College's annual Div IV weekend took place June 7-9. This year's theme, Culture, Mind, and Body, celebrated the College's 43 years of … ideas and learn from one another. It is also a chance for alums to revisit their student experiences, as well as …

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Hampshire College Alums Jenner Furst 02F and Julia Willoughby Nason 01F Codirect New Docuseries, “LulaRich,” on Clothing Company and “Cult” LuLaRoe

… Hampshire College Alums Jenner Furst 02F and Julia Willoughby Nason 01F Codirect New Docuseries, “LulaRich,” on Clothing Company and “Cult” LuLaRoe Amy Diehl LuLaRich , a docuseries about … many of whom lost their savings during their time working for the company. While the company is still in operation, …

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Hampshire College Alums Divad Durant and Hira Nabi Featured in "The Nation"

… Hampshire College Alums Divad Durant and Hira Nabi Featured in "The Nation" Amy Diehl Hampshire … which he attended while also working as a firefighter for the New York Fire Department. As part of his coursework, … also penned an essay for the series in May. Nabi's " News from Home and Other People's Homes ," examines her …

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Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann

… Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann Professor of Development Studies Betsy … be research on current population policies, practices, and ideologies in India and the efforts of non-state actors – social movements, …

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Architecture Award for Professor Naomi Darling

… Architecture Award for Professor Naomi Darling Professor Naomi Darling is a … focus on the relationship to the landscape, the structure and space, the way materials come together, every joint, and not worry about the workings of a building, like plumbing …

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Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles'

… Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles' Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F "For me, poetry is all about rich layers of complexity and contradiction," Division III student Milo Muise says. …

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Alum Rebecca Carroll on Her New Memoir 'Surviving the White Gaze' and the Power of Storytelling to Reshape Language

… Carroll on Her New Memoir 'Surviving the White Gaze' and the Power of Storytelling to Reshape Language Amy Diehl … Carroll’s experiences growing up in an all-white family and her struggle to fully claim her identity as a Black … as well. Do you have a favorite communication medium for certain types of stories? I think of myself first as a …

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Div III Profile: Maximilian Beauchene Explores U.S. Interventions and Global Conflicts

… Profile: Maximilian Beauchene Explores U.S. Interventions and Global Conflicts Joshua Murray Maximilian Beauchene’s … into military conflicts in three nations — Libya, Yemen, and Somalia — where the U.S. military has been involved in … instability and civil war, creating an environment ideal for terrorist cells such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and al-Shabaab. …

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The Quartz Cantabile

… adventure. After studying mainly ethnomusicology and music theory at Hampshire, Lerew changed course a bit … both the physics of sound and design issues. The seeds for the switch were planted when George Washington University … for his Div III presentation. "It lends itself to slower, free form styles of music. It's extremely sensitive to …

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Pustejovsky Examines Responses to Trauma through Music, Art, and Art History

… Examines Responses to Trauma through Music, Art, and Art History Hometown: Boston Faculty Advisers: Professor of Architectural and Art History Karen Koehler and Professor of Jazz andand frightening are capable of bringing people pleasure. For my Division III project, I performed the fourth movement …

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Designing for a Purpose

… Designing for a Purpose Evolution, whether natural or technical, is … process, either. Collaborative skills, mistakes, and inspiration keep a good idea going until it becomes a … by Associate Professor of Public Health Elizabeth Conlisk and Hampshire alum Miriam Cremer. Cremer, an obstetrician and

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