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Why Do Mice Horse Around?

… She traveled to Tinjil Island, in Indonesia, to study the sexually differentiated toy preferences of a local monkey, the long-tailed macaque, and spent long hours encouraging the Hampshire Farm’s resident boar, Duke, to play with a …

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A Letter from Past Presidents in Support of Hampshire

… As past presidents of Hampshire, we appreciate fully the challenges Hampshire College faces today, and we have … its struggles these past few months. We fully support the Board’s decision to affirm that its highest priority will … to education – and we have each pledged to support the fundraising effort needed to secure that future. With the

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Jerome Liebling: Brooklyn and Other Boroughs, 1946-1996

… Jerome Liebling: Brooklyn and Other Boroughs, 1946-1996 The Stephen Kasher Gallery in New York City will show Jerome … Other Boroughs, 1946-1996 from April 24 through June 6. The opening reception is Friday, April 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. Liebling was among the founding professors of Hampshire College. He joined the

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Hampshire Films Featured in Historic Northampton Series

… Museum's first film series. Professor Abraham Ravett is the curator of the series, which will feature contemporary film/video makers working in a variety of genres. View a schedule for the film series >> "This is an opportunity for the Pioneer …

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Students Tell Stories of Internships

… and sponsoring campus organizations Whether they spent the summer promoting peace initiatives in Israel, researching how religion and culture impact the environment in India, working on a feature film at a … information in New Orleans about reproductive health, the 63 students speaking at the college's Annual Intern …

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SXSW Director Pierson Developed Critical Eye as Hampshire Student

… Critical Eye as Hampshire Student Mike Medeiros Under the leadership of Hampshire alum Janet Pierson, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival has premiered … works as diverse as Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture , the 2012 Oscar-winning high school football documentary …

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Hampshire College to Establish Center for New England Food and Agriculture

… Grant Hampshire College will use a $240,000 grant from the Lydia B. Stokes Foundation to establish the Center for New England Food and Agriculture, a major piece of the College's Sustainability Initiative and a step forward in …

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March 30: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by #BlackLivesMatter Co-founders

… 30: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by #BlackLivesMatter Co-founders The co-founders of #BlackLivesMatter —Patrisse Cullors, … Lecture. It will be held Monday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the Robert Crown Center, and is free and open to the public. The lecture keynotes a weeklong symposium at the

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100 Percent Local Food Challenge at Hampshire College

… Foundation Grant Hampshire College is going to test the limits of regional sustainable agriculture by sourcing … of food on campus locally, and a $50,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation will support the effort. Hampshire's 100% Local Food Challenge will draw …

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Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Events

… Foster Wallace's, an experience of life as it is "lived on the nerves." Baker's work - as part of this larger trend … film, and theatre - offers an apt occasion to address the proliferation of "real-life" based reenactments, our desires for realism, and the forms that promise to deliver it. Cayer will discuss …

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Native American and Indigenous Studies Professor Robert Caldwell Brings Deep Research to His Teaching

… American and Indigenous Studies Robert Caldwell joined the Hampshire community in the spring of 2021 as part of the Five College Consortium’s expansion of the Native …

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Grant to Support Animal Communication Research

… Grant to Support Animal Communication Research The John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation has awarded a … of $10,000 to Hampshire College to support research into the role of environmental change in the evolution of animal communication. The project, called …

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2014 Convocation Remarks by President Jonathan Lash

… 2, 2014 President's Address by Jonathan Lash Members of the Hampshire community, students, staff, faculty . . . good … to tell you why. Of course, you couldn’t drive onto the campus without seeing that big changes are underway. A … had been a bus stop and a flagpole. Earth moving machines the size of titanosauri rumbled across the campus, eating …

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Alumni Profile: South Hadley Mandolin Orchestra Founder Adam Sweet 80F

… 11F Adam Sweet 80F began studying and playing music at the age of four, when he started violin lessons. He continued … an interest in bluegrass and purchased his first mandolin. The mandolin is fingered the same way as a violin and he transitioned easily between …

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Hampshire’s Alan Goodman Coauthors 'RACE: Are We So Different?'

… book coauthored by a Hampshire College professor explores the central idea of race and how it has been made real, … WGBY's Connecting Point (interview begins at point 9:56 in the video) >> "This book brings together compelling evidence from many disciplines to show that ... the biology of race is a powerful myth. It is important, …

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Alum's Peace Corps Service and Master's Program Focused on International Environmental Policy

… as a Peace Corps volunteer supporting local communities in the Philippines, at the same time earning her master’s in international environmental policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at …

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Karen Marshall's Exhibit 'Between Girls: A Passage to Womanhood 1985-2015' on View at Hampshire

… following a group of middle-class New York City girls from the ages of 16 to 46, runs through November 17 in the Harold F. Johnson Library art gallery at Hampshire College. Marshall began photographing the teenagers in 1985 after being introduced to Molly Brover, …

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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery

… Freedberg using a lens-less pinhole camera will debut in the Leo Model Gallery at the Liebling Center on campus from November 18 to December 14. All of Freedberg’s works in the posthumous exhibit were captured with a pinhole camera – …

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Fall Internship Dinner 2013

… O'Rourke 13F "This is truly one of my favorite events of the year," said Hampshire President Jonathan Lash, warmly welcoming everyone to the 2013 Fall Internship Dinner, an event that showcases internship grant recipients from the Five Colleges. The dinner, held in the Red Barn on the

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Five College Sustainability Initiative

… Five College Sustainability Initiative The Five College consortium's Blue Sky Sustainability … pursue, is turning to students and faculty to help narrow the field. Last winter, the Five College campus communities (Hampshire, Amherst, …

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DEAFinitions Conference Draws Hundreds to Celebrate Deaf Culture

… third annual Deaf Studies Conference, DEAFintions, the weekend of March 24-25, to celebrate and learn about Deaf culture. The event has become important to the Deaf community in Western Massachusetts and beyond. “Deaf …

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Cuban Scholar Reflects on Mutual Benefit of Exchange Program

… Program Giovana Romano Sanchez For Tito Mitjans Alayón, the best aspect of being a visiting scholar in the Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program was discussing … and accessing academic resources. “I want to take the whole library with me,” he said before leaving Hampshire …

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Five Colleges Receives Grant to Celebrate Taiwanese Arts

… Five Colleges Receives Grant to Celebrate Taiwanese Arts The Taiwan Ministry of Culture has awarded Five Colleges, … College is a member, a $50,000 grant to celebrate the richness of traditional Taiwanese culture in a project … that will bring three renowned performance troupes to the area. Coordinated by the UMass Fine Arts Center Asian …

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Christoph Cox Publishes 'Sonic Flux: Sounds, Art, and Metaphysics'

… as something that flows through human beings and animals, the entire natural world.” Cox’s new book, Sonic Flux: Sound, … of Chicago Press, 2018), examines what he calls “the notion of sound as an immemorial flow to which human … but that precedes and exceeds those expressions.” In the last 30 or 40 years, he says, “we’ve seen the emergence …

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Chautauqua Institution Features Professor Darlington and Advisor Bernstein in Summer Lecture Series

… Bernstein were invited to deliver featured lectures at the esteemed Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua, which hosts … more than 100,000 guests each summer, is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a …

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