… Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease It’s official: With the April 17 signing of a 95-year ground lease, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment is relocating to the Hampshire College …

… Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections The Hampshire of Color weekend March 28-30 was more than a reunion. By connecting alums with current students over the three-day event, it was a chance to look back at how … multicultural community has grown and thrived over the years, while also looking ahead to how to strengthen …

… chosen by national nonprofit SustainUS to take part in the COP22 (Conference of the Parties) United Nations negotiations in Marrakech. To be … goals will be reached. O’Rourke 13F was selected by the youth-led organization SustainUS, which advances justice …

… of 15,000 solar panels, covering approximately 19 acres on the 840-acre campus, the centerpiece of its plan to produce 100 percent of campus … has applied for town permits to begin construction of the two photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays and a Tesla …

… Watch Vigil Hampshire College was well represented at the annual School of the Americas Watch vigil in Georgia this past November, as more than three dozen students made the 20 hour trip to Fort Benning to protest the controversial …

… Hampshire sports teams weren’t joking as they competed in the playoffs in Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC), with the cross country teams traveling to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) …

… School of Natural Science Dean Steve Roof in remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for Hampshire College’s 19 acres … on an annualized basis. A week ago he’d been in the Arctic leading undergraduates on an annual research trip. “The glacier I walked on is now forty feet thinner compared to …

… classical, musical modernism, new music. Tom Service of The Guardian calls it "music that is very much at the heart of our modern world." It's a musical form that's thriving in the campuses and small cities of western Massachusetts, where …

… accomplished restaurateur, is advising his alma mater on the operation of its new Kern Kafé and Prescott Bakery, a continuation of his work the past five years consulting the college on its goal to dramatically increase sourcing of …

… Her Book, 'Puerto Rican Citizen' Lorrin Thomas , author of the award-winning book Puerto Rican Citizen: History and … will speak in Hampshire's Red Barn on March 31 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Thomas is a professor in the department of …

… in Paris’ Course This Summer John Courtmanche For the 12th year Hampshire College will host students in France this summer for the course “Super 8 Filmmaking in Paris: Geographies of Identity,” one of the most successful Global Education Office courses in recent …

… and social projects that will benefit farmers there and the village at large. Fourteen students — eight from … six from Mount Holyoke —are working in partnership with the Thai nonprofit Joko Community Learning Centre, based in … yields and sustainability, and avoid being exploited by the government or large multinational corporations. After …

… Lyric earned multiple national book awards, will speak on the topic of "Creative Imagination & Race" at Hampshire's … Patterson Hall. Rankine's Citizen was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the LA Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the NAACP …

… course aimed at releasing a free, new adventure game on the top app marketplaces, by May. Students in Professor Pat … at work to develop their own point-and-click game. Among the 19 students in King’s class, interests and skills vary: … students were especially proud to learn this month that The Princeton Review and PC Gamer ranked Hampshire one of the …

… Commons Hampshire College is using a $65,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research and develop a … director Jennifer Gunter King, “it makes more sense for the library to open up and create more communal learning spaces. This support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation signifies the importance and …

… Hampshire College has a new academic-services facility in the Harold F. Johnson Library, a large, recently renovated space on the first floor that centralizes and expands programs previously dispersed around the 800-acre campus. The facility's ribbon cutting and launch …

… nonfiction writer, novelist, playwright and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, Helen Benedict, whose groundbreaking coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War , …

… Hampshire’s Theatre Board Gabe Sklan According to legend, the Hampshire College Theatre Department was founded when a … of between 30 and 50 students, indignant and outraged at the lack of performing arts on campus, occupied the main lecture hall for several days in protest. But …

… Children of Selamta The statistics paint the big picture, a mammoth, bleak mural of the Ethiopian AIDS epidemic that, among its ravages, has left …

… as Hampshire’s sixth president and lifetime of service to the global environmental movement, the board of trustees has established the Jonathan Lash Endowed Chair in Environmental Education …

… students are amassing an online archive documenting the history of automobile media, from car radios to Wi-Fi, that has shaped the evolution of car culture and experience. The new course Media In Cars is taught by Professor James …

… faculty, friends, welcome to Hampshire's 44th Convocation. The summer is a restfully slow time here, but you all bring life back to the campus. It is good to have our community together again. … David Smith, who in 1970 took a huge risk to leave the Chair of a leading American Studies Department to move to …

… A week of performances on Hampshire's main stage uses "the amount of electricity that a household uses in a month," says Amy Putnam, the theatre program's staff technical director. That makes … big electric bill and carbon footprint. New LED lights, on the other hand, use a fraction of the energy that …

… Poetry by Annie G. Rogers Hampshire College will celebrate the opening of an exhibition of recently acquired prints … professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology. The public reception will be held Wednesday, March 21, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Harold F. Johnson Library. Published …

… orchardist, and creative writing professor Ross Gay is the featured writer for this year’s Andrew Salkey Memorial … Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude , has placed him in the spotlight of the poetry world, having won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts …