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Troncoso's International Exhibit and Capstone Research Celebrate Blackness in Cuba

… During Aurelis Troncoso’s second study-abroad trip with the Hampshire in Cuba program, she was talking with the curator Diarenis Calderon Tartabull and made an off-hand … transform her college experience. “I realized that, over the duration of two semesters in Cuba, I had connected with …

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Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center

… Ground Broken for R. W. Kern Center The groundbreaking for the R. W. Kern Center on November 14 marked the official beginning of Hampshire College’s most ambitious …

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Hampshire Students Premiere African Art Exhibition in Their First Semester

… first semester of college, students in a tutorial had the remarkable experience of curating a debut exhibition of … special collections and authoring its catalogue. The presentation of centuries-old Asante goldweights, never studied or displayed since their donation to the College in 1984, was the students’ final project in the

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Valentin-Escobar Exhibit Named Top 20 Museum Show of 2015 by Art Media

… by Hampshire Professor Wilson Valentín-Escobar about the history of the revolutionary, paramilitary, Puerto Rican organization the Young Lords Party has been named one of the best shows of …

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Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class

… Personal Experience Shapes Occupy Class The Occupy movement will be the focus of a Hampshire course in the fall 2012 semester, and literature professor and course …

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Hampshire Honors Ken Rosenthal for Fifty Years of Service

… 14, at a celebration of his decades at Hampshire—one of the reasons the College exists. He’s also now the official Historian of the College. The title was bestowed …

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Student Use of Academic Services Doubles in Knowledge Commons

… nearly doubled after Hampshire College centralized the services into Harold F. Johnson Library, in a large, … newly renovated space starting this past September 2017. The concept behind the new Knowledge Commons was funded by a $1.2 million Andrew …

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Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships

… Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships The partnership among the libraries of the Five Colleges continues to strengthen and expand for the

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For Alum Artemis Joukowsky III 81F, His Family’s Lasting Legacy of Support for Hampshire College Shines On

… Hampshire College, he remembers worrying he would be the black sheep of his family. Joukowsky’s father, Artemis … held a long, successful career in global business with the American International Group Incorporated (AIG) before … Joukowsky, Jr., was a trustee, instrumental in supporting the medical school, and later became chancellor emeritus of …

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Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Honors Hundreds Who Helped Build R.W. Kern Center

… a committee of faculty, staff, and students began planning the campus’s first major building in more than 25 years, … Hampshire hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the R.W. Kern Center. Among the speakers was Board Chair Gaye …

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A Bright, Shining Moment

… A Bright, Shining Moment Lucy McFadden 70F (reprinted From the Summer 2016 issue of Hampshire's Non Satis Scire … course with comet Tempel 1, 83 million miles from Earth. The impactor, about the size of a washing machine and sheathed in copper, would …

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Hampshire Alum Daniel José Older to Join Disney’s Rick Riordan Imprint With Two New Young Adult Novels

… and Hampshire College alum Daniel José Older 99F will pen the upcoming two-book Outlaw Saints series as part of Disney Publishing Worldwide imprint Rick Riordan Presents. The new imprint is “dedicated to publishing novels that are retellings of myths from around the world,” and Older’s series is the first Young Adult …

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Oct. 31: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by Kimberlé Crenshaw

… Lecture by Kimberlé Crenshaw Hampshire College invites the public to the 16th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on October 31. The featured speaker is civil rights expert Kimberlé …

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Students, Professors Present Research at National Ecological Conference

… Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews were designing the Integrated Sciences First-Year Program, they had no idea a campus building under construction would provide the perfect vehicle for the program's research. Along with Professors Jason Tor and …

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Five Colleges Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Library Annex Land

… Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Library Annex Land The Five College consortium has signed an agreement to purchase 46 acres of land in Hadley, Massachusetts, as the site for a 2.5-million-volume Library Annex that will provide shelving to supplement the capacities of the on-campus libraries. Most of the land, …

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Alums Create Student Scholarship Fund To Honor Professor Emerita Bengelsdorf

… and they were hooked. A professor of politics who joined the faculty in 1973, three years before Gortikov and Fresco … and anecdotes drawn from her experiences participating in the anti–Vietnam War and antiapartheid movements and working … tried to take every course Bengelsdorf taught — on the Russian and Cuban revolutions, American foreign policy …

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Shakespeare and Pie

… and Pie Some people came for pie. Others showed up for the Bard. Whatever their reasons were for stopping by the Merrill Living Room for the first meeting of the Shakespeare and Pie club, Josh Parr …

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Hampshire Announces Ribbon-Cutting Opening Ceremony for Kern Center

… Announces Ribbon-Cutting Opening Ceremony for Kern Center The countdown to the opening ceremony for the R.W. Kern Center has begun, as Hampshire is now …

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Resisting Racism and White Supremacy

… denied, humanity devalued, opportunity crushed.  But the oppression does not fall equally among us. The burden is not shared. The murder of George Floyd was horrifying to witness. The

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Division III Profile: Five Students Develop Tech Venture for Assessing Livestock Health

… Josh Minot’s Division III thesis project seeks to level the playing field for small and medium farms by offering affordable technology to monitor the health of livestock. Minot and a team of four other … students, merging their individual academic paths under the name AgriGatr, have been working together to develop the

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Hampshire College, Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease

… Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease It’s official: With the April 17 signing of a 95-year ground lease, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment is relocating to the Hampshire College …

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Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections

… Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections The Hampshire of Color weekend March 28-30 was more than a reunion. By connecting alums with current students over the three-day event, it was a chance to look back at how … multicultural community has grown and thrived over the years, while also looking ahead to how to strengthen …

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Hampshire Is Going 100% Solar for Electricity

… of 15,000 solar panels, covering approximately 19 acres on the 840-acre campus, the centerpiece of its plan to produce 100 percent of campus … has applied for town permits to begin construction of the two photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays and a Tesla …

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Sports Recap: Three Hampshire Teams Compete in League Playoffs

… Hampshire sports teams weren’t joking as they competed in the playoffs in Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC), with the cross country teams traveling to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) …

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College Breaks Ground on Solar Arrays, Aims to Drop CO2 Emissions by 3,000 Metric Tons

… School of Natural Science Dean Steve Roof in remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for Hampshire College’s 19 acres … on an annualized basis. A week ago he’d been in the Arctic leading undergraduates on an annual research trip. “The glacier I walked on is now forty feet thinner compared to …

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