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The Roos-Rohde House: A By-and-for Student Space
… The Roos-Rohde House: A By-and-for Student Space A message from students enrolled in the spring 2013 Design and Entrepreneurship for Social Impact class and students in the Rehamping group In September 2011, …
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Poetry Professor Aracelis Girmay Wins 2015 Whiting Award
… to ten emerging writers in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The awards of $50,000 each are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great literary work to come. Professor … published two poetry collections, Kingdom Animalia (2011) and Teeth (2007). Kingdom Animalia won the Isabella Gardner …
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What We Did This Summer: Students Showcase Their Work in Immersive Summer Programs
… dozens of students to campus from across the Northeast and beyond — they came from high schools, colleges, and grad schools as did young professionals — to participate … programs, which are marked by learning through projects and experience. The College organizes its summer programs as …
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In her Div III, Laura Howard beams in on the shady world of museum acquisition
… on display at London’s British Museum, for example, and other priceless artifacts scattered across the globe, … to improve the ethical conditions of museum acquisition and a concern for the detrimental impacts of art crime. … a nasty history to the collection of art,” she says, “and it wasn’t until 1970 that there was any basis for the …
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Sept. 12: Opening of the Robert Seydel Reading Room
… professor Robert Seydel, who passed away in 2011. Designed and constructed by alum Michael Meo 08F of Maryann Thompson … of Seydel’s books in a space created to reflect his living and working spaces. “The Robert Seydel Reading Room is, we … his collection, research into twentieth century literary and artistic figures, and small group discussions and …
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Sept. 4: Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble to Speak at Convocation
… to Speak at Convocation Distinguished medical scholar and activist Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F —a member of the … officially opening the academic year. The event is open and all who would like to attend are welcome. On August 30, … welcomes 440 new students: 368 first years, 54 transfers, and 18 visiting and non-degree students. New student …
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Campus Events To Explore Medieval Ethiopian Manuscript
… Medeiros The Institute for Curatorial Practice (ICP) and the Hampshire College Art Gallery have co-organized a public keynote panel and faculty seminar centering on a medieval Christian Ethiopian manuscript to be held November 11 and 12. The manuscript, written in Ge’ez (the liturgical …
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Hampshire College to Reinvent Academic Program, Launching its Next 50 Years
… pioneering academic program, engaging its campus community and 12,000 alumni in ongoing meetings this fall and promising to publish a plan by November. The initiative, … Launch,” marks the college’s 50th anniversary next year and the launch of its second half-century. The effort is led …
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Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program Marks 15th Anniversary with Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, Colloquium
… lecture is titled “U.S.–Cuba Relations: Past, Present, and Future.” Speakers are former chief of mission at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana Wayne Smith and the eminent historian and leading U.S. scholar of Cuba Louis A. Pérez, Jr. The …
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HIV-Prevention Education
… more than two decades Jill Lewis, professor of literature and gender studies , has used education as a powerful tool in … of the HIV epidemic. Approaching the issue from cultural and gender-focused perspectives, she has developed and implemented HIV-awareness and -prevention initiatives in …
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Hampshire Protects 46 Acres on the Mount Holyoke Range
… College, Kestrel Land Trust, Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs, and the Town of Hadley permanently protects 46 acres of the … northeast flank of the Mount Holyoke Range near Bay Road and Chumura Road. It will serve as a resource for outdoor …
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Hampshire President-elect Ed Wingenbach: Public Remarks
… all for coming out. I am coming to Hampshire College today and hopefully for a very long time because I think that it is … been more important to the success of the American college and university system over the last 50 years than Hampshire … institution is to invent the future of higher education and it has done so consistently for years. If you look at the …
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$400,000 Luce Grant Funds Research, Cultural Connections
… A $400,000 grant from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) will provide new opportunities for Hampshire College faculty and students to build cultural connections and pursue environmental and agricultural research in China …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019
… that would empower them to direct their own education and lead independent work. As a community of lifelong … about — instead, we wish to pursue intellectual exercise and active inquiry. This remains the heart of Hampshire's program, as Franklin Patterson and Chuck Longsworth wrote in The Making of a College . Five …
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Hampshire College to Admit a Spring 2020 Class in January
… Board Vote Restores Longstanding Practice of Spring and Fall Admissions for New and Transfer Students Hampshire College is now accepting … application is now live on the Common App for new and transfer students to apply to enroll in either fall or …
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Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor
… class has selected award-winning poet, activist, and transformational leader Sonya Renee Taylor as their … on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Taylor is founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology. … Apology believes that discrimination, social inequality, and injustice are manifestations of our inability to make …
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Getting to Know the Fall 2020 Entering Students
… 119 new students. Of this group, 79 are first-years and 40 are transfers. Including returning students, we have … of 2021. After weeks of intense heat, clear blue skies and temps in the low 80s made check-in and move-in to Dakin, where new students are housed this …
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Hampshire Students Premiere African Art Exhibition in Their First Semester
… of African artifacts from Hampshire’s special collections and authoring its catalogue. The presentation of … project in the fall course, Art/Artifact: African Art and Material Culture. In Professor Rachel Engmann’s tutorial … the ways African objects have been collected, interpreted, and displayed, on and beyond the African continent. The …
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Jonathan Lash Announces Retirement in 2018
… me. I believe profoundly in the importance of Hampshire and the originality of this learning community. It spoke to … who interviewed me—they put me on the spot, again and again, with their thoughtful questions and the way they challenged my answers. Who has students like …
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Roddenberry Big Impact Grants Awarded
… Grants Awarded Two Hampshire graduates, Aaron Wieler 01F and Benjamin Herson 95F , have been awarded a total of … Impact grant program. Funded by the Roddenberry Foundation and run by Hampshire's Creativity Center, the grant program … or environmental problems around the world. Wieler and Herson's projects were selected from a pool of 22 …
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Hampshire Names 2019 Commencement Speaker Ericka Hart
… change the face of sexual health education for children and adolescents with innovative programs that promote frank talk about sexuality across race and gender orientation. A breast cancer survivor by age 29, … including better access to screenings, timely diagnoses, and state-of-the art treatment. Hart’s work stands at the …
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Sura Levine
… Levine holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in the social history of 19th and 20th century European and American art with a particular …
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Announcing the Creative Media Institute at Hampshire College
… Celebrated filmmakers Ken Burns 71F , Brett Morgen 87F , and Erica Huggins 83F are among Hampshire College alumni who … when practically every well-known documentary filmmaker and photographer of the day joined Hampshire professor and Burns mentor Jerome Liebling on campus to conduct …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 20, 2019
… Trustees voted to “resolve to admit a class for fall 2020 and proceed with the steps necessary to do so successfully.” … four months ago not to accept a full class for fall 2019 and spring 2020? What changed? The answer is, the remarkable, … of support this spring from Hampshire alums, friends, and people who believe in our College. We are deeply grateful …
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Hofstra Emerita Professor Silvia Federici to Deliver 2018 Schocket Lecture
… to Deliver 2018 Schocket Lecture Activist, teacher, and writer Silvia Federici will be the featured speaker at … the 11th-Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture, to take place March 29. The event starts at 4:30 … p.m. in the Main Lecture Hall of Franklin Patterson Hall and is free and open to the public. Federici is Emerita …
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