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Hampshire Alum Curates Exhibit by Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty at SUNY New Paltz
… known for unsettling works on topics such as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion and violence, is now on exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. The exhibition is curated by Hampshire alum Andrew Ingall. …
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Hampshire Students Premiere African Art Exhibition in Their First Semester
… first semester of college, students in a tutorial had the remarkable experience of curating a debut exhibition of … special collections and authoring its catalogue. The presentation of centuries-old Asante goldweights, never studied or displayed since their donation to the College in 1984, was the students’ final project in the …
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Valentin-Escobar Exhibit Named Top 20 Museum Show of 2015 by Art Media
… by Hampshire Professor Wilson Valentín-Escobar about the history of the revolutionary, paramilitary, Puerto Rican organization the Young Lords Party has been named one of the best shows of …
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Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class
… Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class The Occupy movement will be the focus of a Hampshire course in the fall 2012 semester, and literature professor and course …
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Hampshire Honors Ken Rosenthal for Fifty Years of Service
… 14, at a celebration of his decades at Hampshire—one of the reasons the College exists. He’s also now the official Historian of the College. The title was bestowed …
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Student Use of Academic Services Doubles in Knowledge Commons
… nearly doubled after Hampshire College centralized the services into Harold F. Johnson Library, in a large, … newly renovated space starting this past September 2017. The concept behind the new Knowledge Commons was funded by a $1.2 million Andrew …
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Exhibition by Senegalese Graffiti Artists Opens October 15, 2021
… Mansour Fall) and Mow 504 (Mouhamadou Moustapha Souaré) of the Dakar-based graffiti supergroup, Radikl Bomb Shot Crew . The residency will offer exciting opportunities for the Hampshire, Five College, Town of Amherst, and Pioneer …
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Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships
… Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships The partnership among the libraries of the Five Colleges continues to strengthen and expand for the …
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For Alum Artemis Joukowsky III 81F, His Family’s Lasting Legacy of Support for Hampshire College Shines On
… Hampshire College, he remembers worrying he would be the black sheep of his family. Joukowsky’s father, Artemis … held a long, successful career in global business with the American International Group Incorporated (AIG) before … Joukowsky, Jr., was a trustee, instrumental in supporting the medical school, and later became chancellor emeritus of …
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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Honors Hundreds Who Helped Build R.W. Kern Center
… a committee of faculty, staff, and students began planning the campus’s first major building in more than 25 years, … Hampshire hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the R.W. Kern Center. Among the speakers was Board Chair Gaye …
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Campus Events To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript
… To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript Michael Medeiros The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) and the Hampshire College Art Gallery have co-organized a public … Ethiopian manuscript to be held November 11 and 12. The manuscript, written in Ge’ez (the liturgical language of …
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A Bright, Shining Moment
… A Bright, Shining Moment Lucy McFadden 70F (reprinted From the Summer 2016 issue of Hampshire's Non Satis Scire … course with comet Tempel 1, 83 million miles from Earth. The impactor, about the size of a washing machine and sheathed in copper, would …
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America's tap dance historian donates life's work to Library of Congress and public
… donates life's work to Library of Congress and public The anthology took more than 10 years to research and … features Hill's new tap dance biographies of Fred Astaire, the Cotton Club Girls, Sammy Davis Jr., Savion Glover, Jane … overlooked in previous histories By John Courtmanche The most exhaustive and detailed history of tap dance in …
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Hampshire Values Inform Approach to Resistance for Alums
… knows, an unofficial part of our educational experience is the Div IV, which comprises the unexpected yet creative projects and journeys we pursue long after graduation. We leave the close-knit campus environment only to carry the College’s …
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He Was Frequently Headed Off On a Bus
… James Miller was reminded of that in September, when the communications professor and a dozen others gathered to dedicate a new bus stop outside of the Robert Crown Center in memory of one of Miller’s former … said Miller, was “an ideal Hampshire student.” Born in the Netherlands, insatiably curious, Sander studied English …
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Hampshire Alum Daniel José Older to Join Disney’s Rick Riordan Imprint With Two New Young Adult Novels
… and Hampshire College alum Daniel José Older 99F will pen the upcoming two-book Outlaw Saints series as part of Disney Publishing Worldwide imprint Rick Riordan Presents. The new imprint is “dedicated to publishing novels that are retellings of myths from around the world,” and Older’s series is the first Young Adult …
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Oct. 31: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by Kimberlé Crenshaw
… Lecture by Kimberlé Crenshaw Hampshire College invites the public to the 16th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on October 31. The featured speaker is civil rights expert Kimberlé …
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Hampshire Acquires Works by Renowned Artist and Illustrator Barry Moser
… artist and illustrator Barry Moser has been acquired by the Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections … parents of Derek Pyle, a Hampshire alum. Select works from the collection will debut in a special exhibit opening in the Hampshire College Art Gallery the first week of June. …
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Students, Professors Present Research at National Ecological Conference
… Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews were designing the Integrated Sciences First-Year Program, they had no idea a campus building under construction would provide the perfect vehicle for the program's research. Along with Professors Jason Tor and …
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Five Colleges Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Library Annex Land
… Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Library Annex Land The Five College consortium has signed an agreement to purchase 46 acres of land in Hadley, Massachusetts, as the site for a 2.5-million-volume Library Annex that will provide shelving to supplement the capacities of the on-campus libraries. Most of the land, …
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Alums Create Student Scholarship Fund To Honor Professor Emerita Bengelsdorf
… and they were hooked. A professor of politics who joined the faculty in 1973, three years before Gortikov and Fresco … and anecdotes drawn from her experiences participating in the anti–Vietnam War and antiapartheid movements and working … tried to take every course Bengelsdorf taught — on the Russian and Cuban revolutions, American foreign policy …
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Shakespeare and Pie
… and Pie Some people came for pie. Others showed up for the Bard. Whatever their reasons were for stopping by the Merrill Living Room for the first meeting of the Shakespeare and Pie club, Josh Parr …
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Resisting Racism and White Supremacy
… denied, humanity devalued, opportunity crushed. But the oppression does not fall equally among us. The burden is not shared. The murder of George Floyd was horrifying to witness. The …
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Division III Profile: Five Students Develop Tech Venture for Assessing Livestock Health
… Josh Minot’s Division III thesis project seeks to level the playing field for small and medium farms by offering affordable technology to monitor the health of livestock. Minot and a team of four other … students, merging their individual academic paths under the name AgriGatr, have been working together to develop the …
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Miriam Nelson, Prominent U.S. Health Scholar, Educator, and Policy Adviser, Named President of Hampshire
… policy adviser. Hampshire’s Board of Trustees made the appointment last week after receiving a formal … national recognition for her expertise as a scientist and the author of groundbreaking studies on public health, … accomplishments at Tufts, Nelson: Served for 25 years on the faculty, most recently as associate dean and professor, …
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