… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 , …

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

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Education John Courtmanche Hundreds of members of the Hampshire community and invited guests attended the R.W. Kern Center dedication and symposium on Friday, … 16, a daylong event that explored from many angles the theme, “What Buildings Should Do.” World-renowned …

… for Design Celebrates 20th Anniversary Michael Medeiros The 20th anniversary of Hampshire College’s Center for Design (formerly the Lemelson Center) inspired this year’s Div IV alumni weekend theme of "Build, Create, Design," just as the center itself has inspired students and alums to design, …

… what I did at Hampshire.” For his Division III year at the College, McCarthy researched and wrote a thesis about the economic impact of Gothic churches on the towns that erected them. That meant living in Chartres …

… Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet, author, and advocate for the reform of the criminal justice system, is the featured speaker for this year's Andrew Salkey Memorial …

… Toller has premiered his rock music documentary across the global festival circuit this year, it’s been received … rewarding it should have little trouble attracting sales.” The film was a Rolling Stone magazine Must-See Movie of SXSW; the Austin Chronicle dubbed it “practically required viewing …

… Are Still In' Campaign Hampshire College has signed on to the national We Are Still In campaign and pledged to continue … support climate action and reduce carbon emissions to meet the Paris Climate Agreement, joining more than 1,200 signers … investors. To date, almost 200 colleges are part of the campaign, among them Five College Consortium partners …

… College Outdoor Festival April 16 Lara Leilani Matthias The Appalachian Mountain Club is sponsoring the 5 College Outdoor Festival this Saturday, April 16. The goal is to introduce Hampshire and other Five College …

… III: Using Microscopy to Extract Beauty "I got to be the biologist, the archivist, the archaeologist, the photographer, and the artist for this …

… a dignity economy. No human being is disposable, so the government must attend to each and every one of its … Rising: Participatory Democracy, Solidarity Economy, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in Jackson, Mississippi. On … November 8, staff, faculty, students, and other members of the community filled the Robert Crown Center for the lecture, …

… Freedom and Creativity in Music Giovana Romano Sanchez On the stage of the Hampshire College Music and Dance Building, a group of … “What if you did that every day and you tried to find the other side of your sound?” asked Nicole Mitchell, …

… is traveling through New York and New Jersey documenting the experiences of young black girls working as domestic laborers in the 20th century, while Professor Annie Rogers will visit … and student mentoring. Building on their ongoing work, the six professors will create innovative curricula and …