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Community Commons Summer Grants Announced
… and students had to quickly figure out alternatives for summer work. In response, several Hampshire programs … Kaya Travels: Teaching and Helping Develop Curriculum for Online Education of Migrants and Refugees in Morocco
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Nurture Us and We Grow: Embodied Theater Praxis for Healing and Transformation
Talia Brown, Div II Project …
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Theatre
… in productions. Theatre concentrators are responsible for all facets of the production process at Hampshire, from … Image Making Fantasy Fit: Theatre and Creative Writing For Children Slim to None: Raising Awareness of Eating … Theatre Immersive, Design-Driven Performance Dressed for Work: Garment Vignettes on the Lower East Side Just a …
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Devyn Manibo Receives 2013 Princess Grace Award in Film
… the award funds to purchase filmmaking equipment and pay for travel to the Philippines to capture footage for her Hampshire Division III (senior) project, a video installation for the islands i've lost/ for the islands i've never known: …
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Hofstra Emerita Professor Silvia Federici to Deliver 2018 Schocket Lecture
… Collective, the organization that launched the Campaign for Wages for Housework in the United States and abroad. She has also … movements and was a founding member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, which for more than a decade …
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"Tour de Hamp" Participates in Will Bike 4 Food Fundraiser
… September 28. Participants bike through the Pioneer Valley for donations. For every donated dollar, the Food Bank provides $9 worth of … community of Western Massachusetts. It was also a way for me to get outside, explore, and take a break from my …
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Hampshire College Offers Scholarship to Attend Vermont Law School
… energy, take note. Hampshire offers an annual scholarship for a student or an alum within ten years after graduation to … Scholarship recipient Catherine Craig 08F attended VLS for a master’s in environmental law and policy while earning … State House, where she’s writing environmental laws for the state. “I’m here because of the scholarship; I …
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Hampshire College Alum Represents
… worked at the Cultural Center, which was a big support for me,” Smith says. “They made me feel very welcome, and I … to bring together all the elements I was interested in for my Div III, a comic about Caribbean history, national … the Space Ways . “The structure of Div III is perfect for a cartoonist,” Smith says. “It taught me how to organize …
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Experimenting at Hampshire Summer Academic Programs
… Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute; the Institute for Curatorial Practice; the Institute for Transforming Social Justice; and TESOL teacher training … give me a better sense of what I had to do and should do for that. I knew a larger part of the program involved …
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Div III Profile: Anita Fuentes Gutierrez On Racism, Reality TV
… , a popular Spanish reality TV show heavily criticized for enforcing anti-Roma (also commonly called Gypsy) … discrimination. Los Gipsy Kings routinely draws criticism for reinforcing stereotypes about the Roma people, often … of the 21 participants blamed Roma people or their culture for their perceived failure to integrate; only two of them …
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Division III: Building the Nonprofit Restaurant
… So she decided to help change it. The inspiration for Fisher's Division III project, Paradigm Shifts: Building … by patrons, extensive use of volunteers, and a living wage for paid employees. There are now about 30 community caf?s … catering program, she organized a fundraising dinner for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. The dinner …
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Howard Wein 93F
… have included senior vice president of food and beverage for the Morgans Hotel Group, chief operating officer for Starr Restaurants, and corporate director of food and beverage for Starwood Hotels and Resorts. Howard and his wife, …
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In Memoriam: Kirk Robert Simon 1954-2018
… In 2010, when Kirk Simon 72F won an Academy Award for his documentary short Strangers No More — a film … project — a profile of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for the PBS series American Masters , to which he contributed … and writer: Eulogy to Kirk, May 21, 2018 I knew Kirk for 40 years, having met him in 1978 when I moved to New York …
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Hampshire Faculty Recognized with Awards, Fellowships, Other Honors
… in Mexico organized by the University and Citizen Network for Democracy and accredited by the National Electoral … residential research fellowship at the Clark Art Institute for spring 2019. She will be researching representations of … The Communications Office welcomes updates on faculty news. Please send us an email, at …
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2014 Carol and Blair Brown Award Recipients
… Awards, presented May 1. Berger is technical director for music and dance, and Rimmer is director for queer/women services. The awards recognize staff who, … in securing and assembling a new portable tap floor for the college at a total cost of $225—as opposed to a …
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Hampshire College Commits to Funding Students Affected by Hurricane Maria
… Maria, Hampshire College is extending an invitation for two students from Puerto Rico to enroll for the spring semester of 2018. The semester will be fully funded for the two students. Hampshire will cover the cost of …
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New Board Chair Jose Fuentes Letter to Hampshire Community
… Hampshire is being forced to change, and we are overdue for change. It’s a great honor and opportunity to be able to … education should be accessible and transformative for all those who choose to follow their path here. Now we … academic program more innovative and collaborative, for the benefit of our campus and our community at large, and …
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Reproductive Realities
… end of all the things the people I know have been fighting for.’” Tan quickly refocused her Div III on abortion rights. … virtually nullify a woman’s ability to get an abortion, for example, severely shortening the gestational length of … . . . There is, therefore, an urgency to the need for restrategizing reproductive rights advocacy.” She points …
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Movement and learning
… Movement and learning A passion for movement has driven Victoria Quine since she took her … to leading the new student orientation program "Circus for the Gravitationally Challenged," she's constantly … gotten a wide range of support and really good feedback." For Quine's Division III (senior) project, Everything I Need …
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Aug. 30: Edward Humes, Author of Garbology
… with Trash , which was selected as the common reading for Hampshire College's entering class of fall 2013. All … A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court received a PEN Award for nonfiction, and Humes's definitive account of a … Scopes Trial, Monkey Girl , received Silver Gavel honors for its depiction of America's evolution wars. He received …
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Hampshire Student Receives Earl Ubell Grant To Support Div III Thesis
… research and self-publish the project. “I am so grateful for this award and the acknowledgment of my work,” says … medium of television. He was health science editor for WCBS-TV from 1966 to 1972, and from 1978 to 1995. He served as the news director for WNBC-TV News from 1972 to 1976. Ubell …
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Become a Wool Person, Sing with the Crazy Pitches: Student Groups Represent at Hampfest
… says, “People who might not have interacted if it wasn’t for Crazy Pitches, but who all really care about each other.” … Leadership and Activities office. The start of a semester for these diverse groups means welcoming new members. Emma John, a signer for Hamp History, told students about the group’s current …
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Students Present at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
… 03F, were among a group from Hampshire's Institute for Computational Intelligence whose presentations were … a member of the executive committee of the Association for Computing Machinery's genetic and evolutionary … was titled "Flea Market Simulator: A Market Simulator for Experiments on the Computational Evolution of Trading …
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Unfinished Tom Joslin Film Completed at Hampshire College
… at Hampshire College from 1977 to 1980. He is well known for his 1977 film Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend … Joslin died of AIDS in 1990 he left all of the videotapes for the Silverlake Life project to Hampshire alum Peter … History of Human Expression . All the original materials for that project, which Joslin called The Architecture of …
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Area Of Study
Economics
… Can we generalize across countries? Is there a role for government policy, international labor standards, as well … and the Environment Economic Development Economic Theory for Social Analysis The Environment, Resources, and World … Microeconomics (SC) Law and Economics (AC) Statistics for Economists (SC) Facilities and Resources Five College …
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Hampshire College Joins Massachusetts Independent College Transfer Guarantee Program
… This program ensures acceptance to Hampshire College for students who hold an associate degree from a … are renewable each year a student attends Hampshire for up to six semesters as long as the student maintains … continues to accept transfer student applications for fall 2021. For further application questions, please call …
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