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Hampshire Celebrates Commencement: May 12–15

… both virtual and in-person events.   Read a recap article on Hampshire's 2021 commencement festivities from the Daily … and virtual commencement ceremony can now be viewed on  Hampshire’s YouTube channel . Division III Showcase … picture. Students, staff, and faculty who are part of the on-campus testing program were invited to participate, as …

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Conference Examining Alcohol Policy in the United States

… a conference to discuss the national issue of drinking on campuses. The Five College Student Coordinating Board, … nationwide, to discuss the issues surrounding drinking on college campuses. "Providing robust, accurate, and objective information on the realities of alcohol and educating on the differences …

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To Beat The Band

… kids every afternoon. That’s why Wilbert Rawlins, Jr. is on the job or on call at all times, why he takes money out of his own … most important adults in their students’ lives — passing on a legacy that had literally saved their own lives when …

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Burton Conducts Bee Research in China, and Learns The Language

… institute to assist with one of Fizdale’s experiments on bees and pollination. Once that research was completed, … have also been supported by a grant from Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE), awarded through … Shi, Burton is exploring publishing a scientific article on topics related to his research, likely on bee mRNA and the …

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Hampshire College Farm Celebrates 25th Season of Community Supported Agriculture

… Photos by Jess Marsh Wissemann and Andrew Hart It’s 7 a.m. on a cold, wet Friday in October and a stalwart crew of 20 or … thrifted flannels, and knit woolen hats, is gathered on the edge of campus in a large field bursting with … distribution that afternoon. Farms are sprouting on campuses across the country, but this fall the CSA program …

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View Photos from the 2015 Commencement Ceremony

… Hampshire College's commencement ceremony was held on Saturday, May 16, 2015. View photos from the event on Flickr. Commencement … View photos from the event on Flickr. … View Photos from the 2015 Commencement Ceremony …

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Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann

… Her main activity, based in New Delhi, will be research on current population policies, practices, and ideologies in … and transform them. Hartmann will focus in particular on the two child norm, contraceptive policy, and population … academic institutions and venues in other parts of India on the current landscape of international population …

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'Quidditch' as Artificial Intelligence Experiment

… his Quidditch skills. Crawford-Marks - set to graduate on May 22 - has created a computerized version of the … to play another day and their desirable traits pass on to following generations. In order to graduate, every … professor Lee Spector, who suggested during a seminar on evolutionary computation that Quidditch could pose an …

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Student Plans Hampshire Deaf Studies Conference To Remove Barriers

… be more enjoyable than other language courses she’d taken. On her first day of class, the professor used sign language … major components: writing two audience research studies on portrayals of d/Deafness in mainstream media, and serving as lead organizer on a new Deaf Studies conference to be hosted at Hampshire …

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Students in Game Course Seek to Publish New Game in Four Months

… course aimed at releasing a free, new adventure game on the top app marketplaces, by May. Students in Professor … fiction; others are concentrating their studies on game design, coding, and programming. (These latter … milestone; the team has been able to play their game on a device and get a feeling for the main features. In …

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Eddie Mandhry 97F

… supporting collaborative research networks focused on economic theory, global labor markets, migration, and the impact of technology on development. Previous to that he was the Washington D.C. … of Global Kids Inc. He is a Carnegie New Leader and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council for Ethics …

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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming

… by Hampshire College alum Seth Wessler 03F is based on his reporting, “ Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside ,” for The New York Times Magazine. In the … detainees faced in the facility. Much of the film focuses on two detainees, a Colombian asylum-seeker Andrea Manrique …

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Photos from Hampshire's Ethics and the Common Good Project

… Common Good: What Kind of World Do You Want to Live In? on February 12 . The launch also included a series of … will provide a model for integrating a deliberate focus on ethics within the academics and culture of an educational institution, with a distinctive focus on contributing to the common good. The Ethics and the Common …

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Ellen S. Sturgis 77F

… currently a Corporator for Middlesex Savings Bank, and is on the Leadership Council for MassCreative, a statewide arts advocacy organization. She is also currently serving on the Selectboard of Stow MA, having formerly served as Assistant Town Moderator and on a variety of boards in Stow, including the Second Century …

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April 5, 2019: Letter from Luis Hernandez 70F

… now move toward actually addressing that issue together. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I thank Mim for her … 1970 as a member of the first class, Ken was already here on campus, having helped Chuck Longsworth and Franklin … has always stayed close, advocating for and volunteering on behalf of Hampshire. Ken is the parent of an alum, a …

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Daisha Dukes and Yari Bushell’s collaborative Div III, the We Belong Project, Centers Student-Led Spaces

… was an instant connection around the desire to do hands-on community work—not just outside of Hampshire, but within … They also both wished for more student-centered space on campus where students could just hang out and meet each … to foster a space “for students, by students,” they went on to create their collaborative Div III, the We Belong …

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Psychoanalytic Studies

… The Resounding Unknowable - Lacanian Perspectives on Sonic Aesthetics The Symptom in Lacanian Psychoanalytic … between psychoanalysis and literature by focusing on Freud's concept of the "uncanny" as it appears in his … the nineteenth and twentieth century. Freud himself drew on the work of E.T.A. Hoffman, whose "Sandman" features …

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'Beet' Poetry

… the continental United States. The definition, as printed on the inside cover page of the self-published Beetitude . … or a crowd at one of the many stops, seedy or otherwise, on their recent spoken word tour. They want to make their … this spring. The two poets have published several works on their own, but the friends decided a joint collection …

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The Soul Returns to the Land It Knows

… psychological, and cultural effects of abuse on children. In addition to reading widely on the topic—as presented in scientific articles, Biblical … and challenged conventions," said Nyala. Nyala is working on a monologue based on a particularly graphic excerpt from …

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Trustees Establish Environmental Professorship to Honor Jonathan Lash Presidency

… After recovering from a serious illness and being out
 on medical leave in the spring semester, he said he looks … joining Hampshire as an internationally recognized expert on global sustainability, climate change, and environmental … by two U.S. presidents, who appointed him to serve on a national environmental council and commission. The …

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Norman Holland

… Arts, and Cultural Studies.  He has numerous publications on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American … with Monique Roelofs, with whom he is working on a book-length study of anachronism in contemporary … literature.  At Hampshire, he regularly offers courses on Latin American narrative and culture, Latin literature, …

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Amy Jordan

… small farmers in Mississippi, and has conducted workshops on the history of anti-poverty and welfare rights activism. … Start," is part of a forthcoming collection entitled War on Poverty & Struggles for Racial and Economic Justice. She is currently working on a book entitled From Rural Rehabilitation to Welfare …

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The Singing Tower

… around," listening to a recording of Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire." Intrigued, Olson taped a broken guitar … from inside the cylinder, climbing up and down its height on 12 wooden steps spaced vertically behind the strings, … practices.  He debuted the tower at a public demonstration on campus shortly before his May graduation. He carefully …

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Designing for a Purpose

… founder of Basic Health International, a nonprofit focused on eradicating cervical cancer in El Salvador. She contacted … fortunately, I have the freedom as a faculty member to act on good ideas. I didn't have to go through a long approval … study, brainstorming and working with other students on the design." Says Conlisk: "We thought there was a real …

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Literary Collaboration and Control

… College, where he will graduate May 17, and working on graduate school applications, Hill is looking forward to … and Indymedia." He co-authored "Quality and the Reliance on Individuals in Free Software Development," which will be in the proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Open-Source Software Engineering. And, he is second author …

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