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Of Blisters and Bliss

… 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

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Immigration, Incarceration, State Power: 20th-Annual Eqbal Ahmad Symposium Slated for November

… 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. …

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Sander Thoenes Research Award Recipients Announced

… 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 …

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First Community Orientation Kicks Off Hampshire’s Fall Semester

… 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 …

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Students across Five Colleges to compete in DataFest

… 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 …

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Folk Music Collective

… 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 …

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Speech of Conferral of Honorary Degrees to Charles and Polly Longsworth

… 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 …

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Assistant Professor Bynum Debuts New Course on #BlackJoy

… 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 …

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Letter to HampRiseUp from President Nelson: February 18, 2019

… 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 …

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Planning for Urban Farming

… 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 …

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Alum Derry Noyes Delivers Miniaturized Iconic American Art to Our Mailboxes

… 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 …

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For Amber Bonarrigo, Ice Meets Math in Svalbard

… 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 …

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Barnard and Columbia Professor Neferti X. M. Tadiar to Deliver 13th Annual Schocket Lecture

… 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

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Laverne Cox to Speak at May 17 Commencement

… 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 …

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Division III: A Study of Stream Temperatures

… III: A Study of Stream Temperatures Recent changes in the earth's climate are having profound effects on the planet's natural systems. The melting of polar ice caps, rising oceans, and hotter …

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Hampshire Alum Antonius Wiriadjaja Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

… Scholar Program award to teach new media in Indonesia. The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced … Seni Indonesia, Surakarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta) as part of a project to teach computer …

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First Community Education Day Centers on Anti-Black Racism

… on Anti-Black Racism Anne Pinkerton 91F On September 17, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (IDI), in partnership with the Community Commons, hosted Hampshire’s first Community … with their advisers, Community Education Days are part of the College’s new curricular model and will be integrated …

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Martha Pskowski 09F Receives Fulbright Award

… Student Program grant to Mexico in environmental studies, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced … recently.   Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well …

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Community and Education: "It All Ties Together"

… you're thinking about education, you don't think about the people who fall through the cracks of the system," Sophie Lembeck says. Her Division III project, …

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Women’s Activism in 20th Century Iran

… Women’s Activism in 20th Century Iran Taliesin Nyala 07F The fact that Dooler Campbell's 07F Division III—"Nature and … of perfect," she says, because so much of it centers on the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Campbell has spent the past year studying the build-up to the

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Local Food Challenge

… mind stocking up on soda. Heck, even bananas are out of the loop. But does that seem to faze Hampshire students involved in the Local Food Challenge? No, not really. "We want to see how the [Pioneer] Valley can sustain a diet that's completely …

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Symposium To Explore Jackson, Mississippi, as Case Study of Economic Democracy and Community Self-Determination

… mayor Antar Lumumba pledged to make Jackson, Mississippi, “the most radical city on the planet” by instituting workers cooperatives, people’s … and organizations, citing Ace Hardware, Land O’Lakes, the Green Bay Packers, and the FC Barcelona soccer franchise …

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HIV-Prevention Education

… gender studies , has used education as a powerful tool in the international fight against the devastating spread of the HIV epidemic. Approaching the issue from cultural and …

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Muhammad Delivers Eqbal Lecture on Race and Policing

… Eqbal Lecture on Race and Policing Michael Medeiros The trial of O.J. Simpson and the 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police, said … and understand racial criminalization and its history in the United States.  Addressing the crowd at the 2016 Eqbal …

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Hampshire College Commencement Celebrated Grads After a Challenging Year

… officially graduated its class of 2021 on Saturday. From the Daily Hampshire Gazette : The ceremony honored 214 students who graduated from Hampshire this year. Although the college operated with hybrid in-person and remote …

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