Finance and Administration Departments and Services
… and Administration Departments and Services Office of the Vice President Budget Management Contract Management … Development Insurance Claims Risk Assessment … Office of the Vice President Budget Management Contract Management …
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President Nelson and Team of Scientists Study Environmental Impact of Dietary Guidelines for Americans
… of New Hampshire have published research revealing the environmental impact of the recommended diets in the Dietary Guidelines for … of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Naglaa H El-Abbadi, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, …
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Collaboration and Cooperation Drive Innovative Kern Center Construction
… and Cooperation Drive Innovative Kern Center Construction The Kern Center is quickly taking shape as the most visible symbol of the College's commitment to sustainable building practices, …
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Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program Marks 15th Anniversary with Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, Colloquium
… Colloquium Michael Medeiros Hampshire College will mark the 15-year anniversary of its Cuba student-exchange program with a two-day celebration centered on the College’s annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture. At the event, the College will also honor two retiring faculty …
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Historic Havana Digital Photo Archive Published by Hampshire College Library
… Library Hampshire’s Harold Johnson Library has launched the Havana Archive Project, an open access digital … collection containing more than 8,000 photographs of the 1,055 most significant buildings in the Historic Center of Havana, Cuba—declared World Heritage …
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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections
… Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Five College Consortium $800,000 to re-imagine the way museum collaborations can share their online …
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Hitchcock Center's Hampshire Site and Design Team Announced
… Site and Design Team Announced Hampshire College and the Hitchcock Center for the Environment have identified a site on campus where the Hitchcock Center will build its new home : a …
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Hampshire College Farm Celebrates 25th Season of Community Supported Agriculture
… thrifted flannels, and knit woolen hats, is gathered on the edge of campus in a large field bursting with brassicas. … listening closely to instructions from Nancy Hanson, the College’s CSA manager and a veteran vegetable grower. They'll spend the morning combing through rows of leeks, cabbages, …
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Hampshire College Art Gallery and Amherst Poetry Festival Partner for Special Events in September
… Poetry Festival Partner for Special Events in September The Hampshire College Art Gallery, whose current exhibition, … presented in three-dimensional space,” is partnering with the Fifth Annual Amherst Poetry Festival to present special events September 15–17 at the Emily Dickinson Museum and Hampshire College. Of Soil and …
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Scholar, Organizer Against Racial Inequality Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor to Deliver 2017 Commencement Address
… racial inequality, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor will deliver the keynote at Hampshire’s Commencement May 20. She was … American studies at Princeton University, is one of the organizers of today's International Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day. The worldwide day of action was planned by women in more than …
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Exhibition Questions History of U.S. Relationship with Puerto Rico through Ironic “Museum” of Empire
… as its one-year anniversary approaches, an exhibition at the Hampshire College Art Gallery probes a long history of the colonial relationship between the United States and the island, a U.S. territory for more …
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Vehicle for Learning
… Vehicle for Learning For her Division III, one student in the 2004 graduating class, 21-year-old Christina Salway, … of a vintage recreational vehicle. She transformed the Covered Wagon-brand RV from its original 1950s concept of … in a project titled "Examination and Reconstruction of the Traveling Home: Rebuilding the Recreational Vehicle, an …
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Hampshire Professor Featured in BBC Documentary
… Hampshire Professor Featured in BBC Documentary The work of Hampshire College professor Lise Shapiro Sanders 90F played an important role in the new BBC documentary series Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter . Sanders’ 2006 …
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New Study By 50 World Scientists Warns of More Severe Threat from Global Warming
… Professor Seeta Sistla and 50 scientists from around the world finds that warming temperatures will likely trigger the release of trillions more kilograms of carbon from the planet’s soils, largely from the world’s colder biomes. …
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Still Hearing Music
… 16F I used to take long walks. I loved to wander through the narrow streets of Florence until the historic buildings and terraces opened up to reveal a sparkling river, which I knew to be the Arno. I’d cross the Ponte Alle Grazie, soaking in the …
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Hampshire Plans to be First U.S. Residential College Supplying 100 Percent of Electricity from On-Site Solar
… electricity took a major step forward this month. The College plans to construct large-scale ground-mount solar … by SolarCity following an Impact Study to evaluate the project, conducted through Eversource, the local electric utility. The systems will be constructed …
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Hampshire Conducts Final Test for 100% Solar Campus
… basis as it underwent its final “witness test” with the utility Eversource on Tuesday November 28, and is … witness test. Campus leaders believe Hampshire is the first US residential college to go 100-percent solar from on-campus sources. Under a power-purchase agreement, the 15,000 photovoltaic-panel arrays on two fields were built …
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Alumni Artists Invited to 'Install Poetry in 3D Space' in Hampshire College Art Gallery Exhibit
… in 3D Space' in Hampshire College Art Gallery Exhibit The Hampshire College Art Gallery is premiering a new … to install poetry in three-dimensional space, considering the transmission of their work as a heard, performed, read, … Arts Night Plus, a free monthly cultural event in Amherst. The exhibit will conclude in late summer in conjunction with …
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Can Art Fight War?
… Can Art Fight War? Mike Medeiros (reprinted from the Summer 2016 issue of Hampshire's Non Satis Scire magazine) The House of Books, St. Petersburg’s largest bookstore, won’t carry Polina Barskova’s The Living Pictures. A collection of short stories, essays, …
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Professor Michael Lesy's Historic Stereography Exhibit Presented by California Museum of Photography
… Michael Lesy, presenting a unique "3D" portrait of the world at the beginning of the 20th century, will debut this week at the California …
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PVTA Agrees to Five Colleges Bus Route Recommendations
… leaders and representatives have successfully petitioned the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority (PVTA) to reverse course on some of the proposed bus service reductions it had announced in May and to retain routes serving the colleges and the local community. In May, PVTA had …
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R. W. Kern Center Groundbreaking Ceremony on Nov. 14
… Ceremony on Nov. 14 A groundbreaking ceremony for the new R. W. Kern Center will be held November 14 at 3:30 … College will build its new R. W. Kern Center according to the most rigorous environmental design standards in the world. The building will create its own energy, treat its …
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Invitation for Public Comments for NEASC Reaccreditation
… visit October 15-18, 2017, by a team representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The Commission on Institutions of Higher Education is one of …
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PopDev Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report
… Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report PopDev, the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, is proud to announce the launch of the UN Women flagship report The World Survey of the Role of …
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Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters
… Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters The water pouring from spigots on the wetlands boxes into buckets below ranges from almost … measuring how tap water is affected when filtered through the constructed wetlands system. Tests will determine pH, …
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