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Hampshire Alum's Music Documentary Embraced on Global Festival Circuit
… it’s been received with consistent raves from film critics and arts media. Variety magazine named Danny Says a SXSW … Austin Chronicle dubbed it “practically required viewing for all music aficionados.” Amherst Cinema will hold a … on Wednesday, October 14, along with a Q&A with Toller and Fields moderated by Byron Coley 74F and Matt Krefting …
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Hampshire College’s Semester Unbound Creates Campus Climate Action Plan
… together academic resources from an array of perspectives and skill sets to address pressing global issues, Semester … Semester Unbound combines ways to learn, share, create, and enact positive change. Unlike any form of study … they’re working toward drafting a climate action plan for Hampshire — a blueprint to prioritize sustainability in …
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Women Welders
… Women Welders Women Welders Past, Present, and Future When Megan Kenney enrolled in a noncredit fabrication workshop for women just for fun during her first year at Hampshire … or worked with power tools of any kind before college, and I just fell in love with it," she said. "It was a whole …
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New Faculty Q&A with Daniel Altshuler
… How is it that we’re able to understand each other, and what does that tell us about the human brain? What draws me to doing linguistics, and especially semantic theory, is that developing a theory … and, sadly, not enough German, considering I lived there for three years. I do research on a whole bunch of languages …
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Hampshire Grads Launch Web Show
… "I was working on a documentary theater piece for my Division III (senior) project. I worked tirelessly on it, and it was driving me insane. I could not track down … Pope 07F . His response was swift: "He rolled the paper up and (jokingly) hit me with it," Ellis says. Pope encouraged …
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Hampshire Invites the Public to Humanities Events
… the Humanities." The event was built around the creativity and scholarship of Hampshire alumni—including such prominent … figures as filmmaker Ken Burns, author Leah Hager Cohen, and literary journalist Chip Brown—and Hampshire's humanities … English and humanities Maria Damon, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities Elizabeth Francis, New School digital …
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Where Are They Now?: Sunny Laprade 18F Makes Comedic History
… on YouTube. Her career has thrived since she graduated, and we caught up with her to find out more. How did you get … in comedy, so he gave me the opportunity to open for touring comics who would be performing. From 2015 to … touring the country as we speak. (Check out sunnylcomedy.com for tickets, and join my mailing list to be notified when …
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Trustees Establish Environmental Professorship to Honor Jonathan Lash Presidency
… Jonathan Lash’s tenure as Hampshire’s sixth president and lifetime of service to the global environmental movement, … the Jonathan Lash Endowed Chair in Environmental Education and Sustainability. Environmental ethics and justice will be the primary focus for inquiry and teaching. The trustees set a goal to fund the …
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From A.B. Div III to B.A. Degree
… Division III ? A Comparative Study of the Gospel of John and the Second Treatise of the Great Seth Katherine Thiel was … consulting company specializes in wetlands consulting, and co-owner Thiel manages its business operations. A few … professor of physics and an early academic advisor for her. "I dropped by to chat with Herb," she said, "and he …
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Jorrell Watkins Is Student Speaker at 2015 Commencement Ceremony
… Commencement ceremony, held on Saturday, May 16, 2015. For his Division III thesis in his final year at Hampshire, … is a creative vessel that can hold poetry, music, and movement, and it allows for a range of different arts that can be used …
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A Hampshire Education is More Challenging, Independent, Community-Based – National Survey Shows
… more challenging, collaborative with faculty, independent, and connected to community service than an education from … of the quality of a higher education: the amount of time and effort students put into their work; and how a college … that a key component of its education is using learning for the greater good. INSIGHTS INTO A HAMPSHIRE EDUCATION …
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Hampshire College Faculty Participate in Five College Working Group “Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective”
… Perspective” Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies Jennifer Bajorek, Visiting Assistant … and Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective." For the academic year 2021–22, the Institute for Holocaust, … in Global Perspective" FacultyFaculty ResearchFive College News … For the academic year 2021–22, the Institute for …
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Alum-Curated Exhibit Features Photographs from Hampshire's Collection
… my eyes , running from December 15, 2016-January 15, 2017, and curated by Jocelyn Edens, Kress Curatorial Fellow and Hampshire alum. The exhibit is preceded by a series of … that date from 1926 to 1977, the collection accounts for Álvarez Bravo’s full photographic vocabulary: lyrical, …
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Q&A with Seeta Sistla, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Ecology
… the University of California Irvine, where she was based for two years as a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow. What are you working on now? In addition to teaching and preparing for next semester’s courses, I’m tying up my …
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Creativity Center Awards Grants to Six Student Projects
… to six student projects in two categories: innovation and experimentation, and collaboration. Projects bring … Sullivan Switchboard is an online magazine offering weekly news and culture for the Five Colleges. The content is contributed by young …
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Kent State, One Generation Removed
… Generation Removed Hampshire Student Writes About Memories and Monuments: Kent State, One Generation Removed "All witnesses of and players in a historical event are they themselves monuments. We are all, for that matter, monuments to our own lives and the era in …
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Sharing Our Journey Gallery Exhibit February 6-24
… Engaging Our Worlds. An Exhibit of Visual Media, Stories, and Other Work from Hampshire College Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni The Hampshire College Art Gallery welcomed the … College Board of Trustees to celebrate Florence Ladd for her service to Hampshire and to higher education in the …
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They Were a Force of Nature: Catching Up with the Unstoppable Aldersons
… Unstoppable Aldersons Abigail Meisel When you meet Glenna and Earl Alderson for the first time, you really wish you could hate them. … and they said, ‘After all you’ve done for Matt, feel free to stay at our home,’ so we lived there for a month this …
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Hampshire President-elect Ed Wingenbach: Public Remarks
… remarks at the event. ED WINGENBACH Thanks everybody for coming, I'm Ed Wingenbach, it's a hard name to pronounce … all for coming out. I am coming to Hampshire College today and hopefully for a very long time because I think that it is … I wish I'd gotten and I think my kid should have, come visit us. Go to our website, write an email, make a phone …
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President Lash's Convocation Speech
… Thank you, Diego. We are so proud of what you have done, and are doing, and of Hampshire's long association with … David helped invent Hampshire, and shared his passion for the humanities with generations of Hampshire students. He … at anything but an intellectual level ... or even to be free of myself. But for exactly those reasons racism is an …
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Introducing Assistant Professor of Creative Writing & U.S. Literatures Dr. Caoimhe Harlock
… (pronounced kee-va ) Harlock taught at Duke University and the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and at the … some creative comics and graphic novel courses as well, for any students who are interested in trying their hand at … In just the short time I spent with them during my campus visit, it was apparent that Hampshire attracts a special sort …
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From the Stage to the Stein: Alum Malcolm Purinton 98F Brewed Up His Own Academic Specialty
… a variety of history classes in which he uses beer and brewing history to consider the development of societies, … things, propelled my perception of what was possible for my future. We were all deep-diving into unique, often … trends in the beer and alcohol industries with major news organizations. Alumni … It turns out that beer is about …
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Hampshire Oral History: Ken Rosenthal Remembers The Founding Years
… History Collection , in the Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections . AM: Ken, how did you first became … Jersey. I was a graduate of Amherst College and I’d worked for the College the year previously, for Chuck Longsworth, so … College reunion in June 1966, and took the opportunity to visit with the Longsworths and had a tour of the farmland …
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Background on Hampshire College Flag Decision November 2016
… President Jonathan Lash has been actively convening formal and informal meetings this month with members of our campus … that by not flying a flag on our college's flagpole for the time being, the College is seeking to enable a … have mistakenly reported, campus members and offices are free to individually display their own flags. We’ve heard …
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Chapter 5: Faculty Concerns
… A Hampshire response to the underrepresentation of women and minorities in science. By Merle Bruno, April 1989. … College sponsored a one day event of hands-on activities for junior high school girls. The workshops were run in … and 22 women college students who planned that one day visit for the last day of the public schools' spring break, …
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