… Award at Women's Entrepreneurship Competition Roxanne Finn The competition, founded seven years ago by Smith alum … and her husband, venture capitalist Tim Draper, addresses the large inequities that female entrepreneurs face when seeking funding for startup businesses. The competition has grown into a highly regarded event and, …

… documentary,  Coded Bias , premiered on PBS on March 22. The film was first shown at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and explores the ways biases and discrimination exist within the …

… A new documentary on Norton Juster's children's book The Phantom Tollbooth will have its world premiere at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday, October 6. Juster, … Hampshire College from 1970 until his retirement in 1992. The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations traces the …

… of neither history nor fiction, but a blending of the two into something Annie Nichol 07F hopes reveals more … and fiction were joined in her Div III work, titled The Lived Landscape of Gratton Gulch . The fictional Gratton Gulch is modeled on real places Nichol …

… Page to Stage "The creativity is theirs," says Elly Donkin of her acting and playwriting students, "but with the security of having someone behind them, standing guard over the technical details." For this professor of theatre, few …

… Programs drew dozens of students to campus from across the Northeast and beyond — they came from high schools, … are marked by learning through projects and experience. The College organizes its summer programs as residential … of Summer Academic Programs Meghan Cassidy, and many of the high school students and some from colleges enroll as an …

… has been awarded a $2.5 million, four-year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help its member campuses … Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), with the goal of enhancing teaching, learning, and scholarship in the field. The grant is one of the largest made by The Andrew …

… arts and humanities course funded by a coveted grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently capped their studies by presenting their work to the campus community. The presentations —written analysis, …

… instead of stepping lightly, I would pound my feet into the ground harder and visualize the jolt of pain entering my body through the soles of my feet as energy coming from the core of the …

… III: Researching Trace Metals in Rice How can you tell if the food you're eating is as healthy as it appears? For her … Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (often shortened to the acronym LA-ICP-MS) at Hampshire's Cole Science Center, … were contaminating specimens of rice, as well as where in the rice the contaminants were located. "Making a visual map …

… today a bold new direction, fundamentally reshaping the liberal arts to match today’s needs.  Three essential … to students’ desires to create new knowledge that can meet the challenges of the 21st century, Hampshire is reorganizing itself around …

… Eric Sanders Co-Author New Scenewriting Book SceneWriting, The Missing Manual for Screenwriters was co-authored by Chris … winning screenwriters, both have a deep understanding of the art and craft of writing scenes. We spoke with them about the upcoming book release and how the origins of the book …

… Symposium Slated for November Hampshire College will mark the 20th anniversary of the Eqbal Ahmad Symposium with activist panels and lectures on the topics of immigration, incarceration, and state power. …

… Sensenich 11F and Alana De Hinojosa 11F are recipients of the 2015 Sander Thoenes Research Awards These annual awards honor the memory of Hampshire graduate  Sander Thoenes 87F  and go … journalism. Preference is given to projects conforming to the spirit of Thoenes' remarkable, tragically brief, career …

… Fall Semester Anne Pinkerton 91F On Monday, August 24, the day before classes started for the fall semester, Hampshire hosted its first community … Love, a professor emerita of social-justice education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has published …

… Five Colleges to compete in DataFest Students from across the Five Colleges will compete to see who can best analyze big data and attract the interest of employers at the 2015 American Statistical Association (ASA) DataFest …

… Folk Music Collective Students start showing up at the Greenhouse Mod in Enfield House at about seven. Some … mandolins, fiddles, whatever works when it comes to the task of making a little harmonious noise. For a while … too much later, everyone clumps together in a circle and the music starts. It's just another Wednesday night for …

… Polly Longsworth Delivered by Sigmund Roos 73F , chair of the board of trustees on May 18, 2013 No one has been more … in bringing Hampshire College from idea to reality than the two of you. You were not only founders but also, quite … Hampshire College. You found this place and negotiated the purchase with area farmers, arranging for them to have …

… Bynum Debuts New Course on #BlackJoy Joshua Murray In the realm of African American literature and culture, the idea of joy is often ignored. This lack of exposure, … illuminated by a timely social-media campaign about the concept, inspired African American Literature and Culture …

… Dear Hamp Rise Up:
 This letter is an updated draft from the one shared with you on Tuesday, February 12. I have shared updates with the community detailing the progress we have made on a number of issues, many of …

… Planning for Urban Farming Anne Pinkerton What’s the difference between hydroponics and aquaponics? “Fish,” … additive nutrients, whereas aquaponics uses fish for the fertilizer, keeping the entire system self-sufficient. Robert and Liam met in …

… Iconic American Art to Our Mailboxes Amy Diehl For the past forty years, Hampshire College alum Derry Noyes 70F has served as an artistic director for the United States Postal Service (USPS), working to … may not be a household name, her projects involving the work of artists Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu …

… that allowed me to spend three weeks in Svalbard, in the Arctic, studying the temperature of Lake Linné's water column. Professor of … undergraduates there, and he has a ten-year record of when the ice starts and when it melts on the lake. I wanted to use …

… X. M. Tadiar to Deliver 13th Annual Schocket Lecture The thirteenth annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on … take place Thursday, March 24, 2022, from 5–6:30 p.m. in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall. Professor … Life in Arrears, Live Borrowings.” Tadiar describes the presentation: ”In this talk, I provide an account of the …

… Laverne Cox to Speak at May 17 Commencement The graduating class at Hampshire College has selected … May 17, 2014. Speakers are chosen each year by a vote of the students who will graduate. Commencement is at 11 a.m. on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Approximately 330 …