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Hollywood Animation Alum Builds Stop-Motion Studio at Hampshire

… and alum Dillon Markey, who led the building of it while on a one-year teaching assignment at the College this past … of Media Arts and Sciences Chris Perry while Perry was on sabbatical — Markey’s first return to campus since … For more about Markey’s work, visit www.dillonmarkey.com /. Academic ProgramEducationFacultyFaculty and Student …

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New Faculty Q&A with Jennifer Bajorek

… me about your own books? Jennifer: The book I’m working on now is on photography in the mid-twentieth century in West Africa. I … tell me about your first book? Jennifer: My first book was on the relationship between irony and capital in Marx and …

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National Science Foundation Awards Hampshire Major Grant for New Spectrometer for Student, Faculty Research

… its unique program that empowers students to take the lead on research and by year four to submit to peer-reviewed … had affected their health. Professor Goodman, serving on her faculty committee, explained that Huggins studied … Goodman , who earned a PhD from UMass, is an expert on the impact of poverty, inequality, and racism on health …

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Announcing the Reappointment of President Ed Wingenbach

… with NECHE, and navigated the Covid-19 crisis on campus, allowing students a residential educational … while keeping central the vision of Hampshire College. On behalf of the board, we are grateful for his leadership … College, one that will allow us to make an outsized impact on Hampshire’s future and the future of higher education.” … …

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Mark Feinstein

… and language, and his research and teaching focus is now on the comparative study of vocalization, cognition, and behavior in non-human animals. Currently he is working on the vocal behavior of domesticated animals, especially … Singing Dog, and he is now engaged in a research project on the structure of song in robins. He is deeply interested …

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Drawing Strength and Inspiration from the Hampshire Community

… join us in our commitment to these principles: To insist on diversity, inclusion, and equity from our leaders and in … and passionately work toward justice and positive change on our campus and in the world. Please make your gift by … So as we look back on a challenging year, we also look forward to what the …

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How To Build A Non-Toxic Net-Zero Living Building

… Living Building John Courtmanche With a ribbon-cutting on April 29, Hampshire College is marking the building of the … Challenge (LBC), which aims to break society’s dependence on environmentally harmful practices, to protect not only the … design a building that supplies its own water and energy on-site, and processes its own waste. Hundreds of Hampshire …

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Enter the Line, See Where it Leads You

… the College. L. Brown Kennedy and Mei Ann Teo got together on April 19, with a camera rolling, on the second floor of the Kern Center. Brown is a professor … of Virginia Woolf as a reader of Shakespeare, writing on Milton and the Temporality of Paradise Lost, and …

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Charlotte Senders

… of Farm Programs Charlotte Senders (she/her/hers) grew up on a small farm outside Ithaca, New York, where her family … majority of her time thinking about cattle. When she’s not on the farm, Charlotte is sewing, playing the fiddle, or … Pete.  Staff … Charlotte Senders (she/her/hers) grew up on a small farm outside Ithaca, New York, where her family …

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Christopher Perry

… Animation Studios, where he worked as a technical director on the films A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, and as a graphics software engineer on Toy Story 2 . Personal Website Christopher Perry 603505 … Animation Studios, where he worked as a technical director on the films A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, and as a graphics …

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Hampshire Faculty Recognized with Awards, Fellowships, Other Honors

… into action around the country, across the globe, and on paper. Here’s a sampling of recent projects, fellowships, … 1 vote. Cerullo and JoAnn Wypijewski co-published a report on their experience in The Nation. Jennifer Bajorek … contemporary France. Her explorations at Clark will build on preliminary field research carried out in France in summer …

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Hampshire College Student Awarded Prestigious Projects for Peace Grant for Program in Ghana

… with Kevin Ntoni, a student at Middlebury College focusing on economics and math, and Nathaniel Wullar, a computer … with Projects for Peace, what inspired him to embark on this journey, and what drew him to Hampshire College. What … (in the form of training and mentorship) and information on ways to subsequently leverage those skills for economic …

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Student Project: A Haven for the Homeless

… a connection between people with homes and people who live on the streets, two groups often disconnected from one … the nation's third largest central library, Wagner focuses on how the library serves as a haven for the homeless. … Find out more about Wagner's work at emilyrosewagner.com . Sander Thoenes Research Awards The Sander R. Thoenes …

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Community and Education: "It All Ties Together"

… Their ages ranged from 19 to 55. "The course focused on writing about emotional and traumatic educational … of student work, held in the Tavern, a gallery space on the Hampshire campus.  "It was a really exciting experience to have their art hanging on the walls. It brought to light this important and …

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Hampshire Writing Program To Host Award-Winning Author Helen Benedict for Public Reading

… War , will read from her latest novel, Wolf Season , on Tuesday, December 5, at 5:15 p.m. at Hampshire College's … about justice, women, soldiers, and war. Her research on sexual assault in the U.S. military instigated a landmark … College Helen Benedict website: https://www.helenbenedict.com   Campus Revitalization and …

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'This Just Might Be the Greenest College in the World'

… headline last month from environmental news site EcoWatch.com about our sustainability efforts, and certainly no … Solar: We're planning to install 19 acres of solar arrays on our 840-acre campus and become the first US residential … college generating 100 percent of electricity from on-site renewable sources; and Two, Building a Living …

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Summer Programs for High School and College Students Open for 2016

… Summer Programs are widely-known as rigorous and hands-on, enabling enrolled students to drive their own studies and … introduces students to metalworking with an emphasis on hot forging, casting, and manipulation. COLLEGE PROGRAMS … Curatorial Practice is a 5-week intensive program focused on the practice of curation: material, digital, and …

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Studying in London

… Hampshire's fields and nightly chorus of crickets. I was on exchange at Goldsmiths College, studying anthropology in … and hiked the tallest hill in Parc de Montjuïc to sit on top of a fortress's walls and look out over the entirety … took some getting used to. The emphasis was still on papers rather than tests, but there were lectures to …

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2014 Gruber Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising

… are asked to give a lecture or organize a symposium on the topic of teaching or advising, with a goal of … the beauty of Hampshire." Moreira (pictured right), who is on sabbatical for the spring 2014 semester, was chosen as … the work, she is always willing to sit down with them one on one or in a group to parse through it until it makes sense …

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University of California Professor To Talk Class Struggle in Black Studies at 2017 Schocket Lecture

… upcoming tenth-annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture.  University of California English … talk, “Manic Depression: A Poetics of Hesitant Sociology,” on Thursday, March 30, at 5:00 p.m. in Franklin Patterson’s … subjects and objects? What work does such looking do on or for or to or against the world? Moten’s talk is an …

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

… & Associates announced today that the R.W. Kern Center on Hampshire’s campus has been certified as a Living Building … the public alike. “The Living Building Challenge focuses on materials safety all the way back to their source, … off site. Net-zero energy is reached via the PVs on the roof, which generate about 17% more energy than the …

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President Miriam Nelson Resigns from Hampshire, Board Names Ken Rosenthal Interim President

… to $20 million over the subsequent three years. Dependent on tuition for 87% of its revenues, Hampshire has a small … to graduation, which led the Board to vote to focus on educating its current students and not admit a full new … partnerships for the College, publicly announcing a search on January 15, which led to talks with more potential …

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Hampshire College Events: October and November 2016

… well-trodden Transcendentalist tradition. More info on  Gallery Page . A Girl's Life By Kathleen Tloan in the … 18-23 A Girl's Life  is a coming of age story centered on a family full of contradictions, where the whole family is … family. For ticket information, e-mail  hctboxoffice@gmail.com . Design and Chance dance performance in the Main Dance …

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Hampshire Student Is a Victory Congressional Intern

… that something needs to happen, and everyone is focused on getting a solution and making sure that this does not … just from being in the halls." Carpenter-Winch is working on completing her Division II, which focuses on religious studies and women, gender, and sexuality …

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Division III Profile: Illustrating Geological History for Middle-School Education

… of the earth's entire geological history. It also "touches on issues of climate change and human impact on the environment," Reynolds says. The support of his Div … love ecology, and to embrace a style of education focused on observation and questioning rather than lecturing," …

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