… or technical, is rarely a one-step process. Most of the time it's not a one-person process, either. Collaborative … a good idea going until it becomes a working reality. Take the portable gynecological exam table, for example. That … Ryan. She had gone to El Salvador in 2009 as a student in the January term course Field Study in Women's Health, which …

… Professor Susan Darlington's "The Ordination of a Tree" The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement, a new book by …

… College’s Convocation! I want to mention right at the beginning of this talk that I have not come here to … to catch your breath and receive an extra push, you have the Hampshire community to help you maintain your momentum. … serve as a foundation that will propel you forward for the rest of your life. It is a simple concept, but the …

… of Strategic Visioning It’s a time for renewal: This was the message from Hampshire President Miriam Nelson to the class of fall 2018 and returning students, staff, and faculty as the semester began. The College’s seventh president began her …

… not have believed them. When my father and I drove up the long entryway to Hampshire College in September of 1971, … excitement. It was only my second time in New England. The first was when I came up for my interview months earlier. … who interviewed me, sat barefoot and cross-legged on the floor before me in jeans and a flannel shirt. I had …

… Youth Award winner for 2017, recognized for service in the environmental movement, as she prepares to lead a youth delegation to the United Nations Climate Conference in Germany, November 6-17 – her second year attending the conference. The Berkeley-based organization Earth Island …

… and a half after Hampshire College launched its Ethics and the Common Good program with a private gift of $2.09 million, the donor has pledged $2.5 million more to endow a professorship, raising the total to $4.59 million. Hampshire received the …

… available to both Hampshire and non-Hampshire students, the latter whom can earn up to four academic credits. ·      The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) is designed for … public history, philosophy, and literature, as well as of the history of science and technology. The ICP focuses on the …

… Daylong Community Event Hampshire College has announced the dedication of the R.W. Kern Center, its extraordinary net-zero-energy and … of mostly local and entirely nontoxic materials. The special, daylong event "What Buildings Should Do" will …

… Colloquium Lee Morgan was selected to participate in the Ninth Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium … . Morgan presented work from his Div III thesis, entitled "The Nature and Process of Metaphorical Interpretation." In … expressions. While it might seem that accepting the invitation to participate in such a prestigious …

… four years of helping friends hang their Div III shows, the Philadelphia native thinks of the college gallery as much more than space waiting to be filled and wanted to use it "to address the Hampshire community." She had noticed that students …

… Funds Sustainability Solve-A-Thon A $200,000 grant from the Roddenberry Foundation will challenge Hampshire faculty … a Solve-a-Thon team contest across all five schools of the college. Tim Zimmerman, visiting assistant professor of cognition and education, who cowrote the grant proposal with Sustainability Initiative Director …

… season. Yes, Hampshire College now has a track program. The Track & Trail Running team began this year as a joint … in competitive varsity sports,” says Brad King, the College’s athletic director. “Before this year, we didn’t … Track and Trail brings in students who hadn’t been part of the athletic program, and also enables winter and spring …

… Hampshire, Eqbal Ahmad was billed as intellectual royalty, the kind of thinker-activist on the world’s stage whose talks you didn’t want to miss. On … critiques, questions from our guest on everything from the Algerian revolution, to Arab nationalism, to Reagan’s …

… 20th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture Highlights “The Fight Back” Joshua Murray Racism, discrimination, and persecution against immigrants in the United States were the subject of talks by the two speakers at the 20th-annual …

… Food Efforts at Hampshire College A $250,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation is supporting Hampshire … nearly 100 percent of food on campus from local sources. The two-year grant will be used to help increase local food … deeper collaboration with agricultural leaders in the area. This funding builds on a $50,000 grant given by the …

… Courtmanche Hampshire’s women’s cross country team won the conference championship for the third year in a row, with Hampshire runners sweeping the top three spots, led by Clara Wagner (Rochester, NY). …

… of menus from 1908, he found they "could conjure up the taste, smell, and sight of food that had been prepared, … and eaten more than one hundred years ago." Just as the menus made him think about the food, the food led him "to the people who had prepared …

… is developing a clothes dryer that uses solar energy, is the fall 2012 recipient of a grant award from the Timothy Harkness Fund for Invention. The Harkness Fund grants awards for innovative work in …

… Team Wins Conference Championship Joshua Murray The Hampshire College women’s cross-country team Saturday wrapped up the season by winning its first-ever Yankee Small College Conference Championship, in Randolph, Vt. The team finished with 35 points and a 31:46 average time for …

… from Kentucky.  Her plays—which have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and the Middle East—include  In the Heart of America, Slaughter …

… for her new exhibit “Ma” at New York’s Aicon Gallery. The exhibit, a series of 25 new pieces, serves as a reflection and meditation on the artist’s recent loss of her mother. The pieces grapple with themes of grief, memory, and …

… Chang, associate professor of cultural psychology in the School of Critical Social Inquiry, knows about the power of secrets. Her recently published Accomplice to … he revealed to her just before he succumbed to dementia. The revelation “pulled the rug out from under me,” Chang …

… Chang, associate professor of cultural psychology in the School of Critical Social Inquiry, knows about the power of secrets. Her recently published Accomplice to … he revealed to her just before he succumbed to dementia. The revelation “pulled the rug out from under me,” Chang …

… Prison Labor Through Contemporary Art Lens Mike Medeiros The tensions between prisons exploiting incarcerated people … reclaiming their labor to create art and literature, drive the exhibit Made in America: Unfree Labor in the Age of Mass Incarceration , now on display in the …