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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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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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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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Womens Activism in 20th Century Iran
… Womens 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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Eddie Mandhry 97F
… Eddie Mandhry 97F Eddie Mandhry 97F Eddie Mandhry joined the Board in 2023. Eddie Mandhry is a senior fellow at Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic venture co-founded by the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy. He is presently leading the Virtual Center for Advanced Potential, a global network …
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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming
… Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming The Facility, a documentary film directed by Hampshire … Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside ,” for The New York Times Magazine. In the film, …
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A Gift to Support Humanities Students' Research
… beginning their Division III work. It is meant to enhance the ability of students to conduct research at an advanced level and also support the library collection and fill any holes in its humanities collection," said Ellis. The Humanities Research Book Grant will support humanities …
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Archaeological Project Co-Directed by Dr. Pamela Stone Awarded AAUW Community Action Grant
… Stone Awarded AAUW Community Action Grant WASHINGTON — The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded a 2019–2020 Community Action Grant to the Nuestra Señora de Belén Archaeological Project, … Stone from Hampshire College, Dr. Ventura Peréz from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dr. Debra Martin …
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CBD Awards Grants to 12 Student Innovators for Summer Projects and Internships
… 12 Student Innovators for Summer Projects and Internships The Culture, Brain & Development program has awarded $25,000 … grant applications was especially competitive, reflecting the high quality of work undertaken by Hampshire students. … CBD Assistant Director Amy Dryansky agreed and noted the diversity of the student proposals, detailed below. The …
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Hampshire Wins International Campus Sustainability Achievement Award for R.W. Kern Center
… Achievement Award for R.W. Kern Center John Courtmanche The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) … 2018 Campus Sustainability Achievement Award, recognizing the R.W. Kern Center, the 17th Living Certified Building in …
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Valedictory Letter from Board Chair Luis Hernandez
… During this time, I’ve met students completely excited by the College’s learning process, faculty who have stoked the fires of inquiry, and staff whose dedication and hard work have truly moved mountains. As a member of the first class at Hampshire, I am enormously grateful to the …
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Unfinished Tom Joslin Film Completed at Hampshire College
… Friend , a coming out/love story of gay identity, and the posthumous, groundbreaking film Silverlake Life: The View from Here . Shot with a video camera, Silverlake Life documented the final months of the relationship of two gay men as both …
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Hampshire Alumni Authors Write in Support of Russian LGBT Community
… decided to "create a document that mostly doesn't exist." The collection of interviews, stories, and testimonials from … "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations." With the Sochi Olympics drawing worldwide scrutiny on how the law affects the Russian LGBT community, Huff-Hannon …
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Gould Named New Police Chief
… New Police Chief Ralph J. ("Buddy") Gould, Jr., will be the next chief of police for Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges. Gould has served as the director of public safety at Holyoke Community College (HCC) since 2006. He will assume the Three College position on June 24 . The new chief of …
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Study of Acceptance of Evolution Among Muslim Physicians
… Hameed hopes to contribute to greater understanding of how the Muslim world views evolution by collecting and analyzing data on the perspectives of physicians and medical students. The three-year study is funded by a $372,500 National Science …
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For Div I Student Arlo Zwicker, Hampshire College’s Orchards and Gardens are Their Classroom
… What attracted you to Hampshire? I realized during the pandemic, once my high school switched to online, that I … and getting much more into my own work. I learned more in the last two months of my senior year teaching myself about … learning rather than teaching myself and having the teachers pull my attention. You are a Div I [first-year] …
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It's On You: Symposium Shows What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur
… an Entrepreneur “Don’t wait to be asked to dance. Create the ball,” Hampshire alum Sabrina Hamilton 73F told students at the "Entrepreneurship the Hampshire Way" symposium, hosted last week by the …
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Creating a Community Cookbook: Redefining Healthy
… Hampshire's study abroad program in Cuba proved to be just the right ingredient for pulling together interests in public health, economics, and anthropology and forming the base of her Div III, the compilation of a community cookbook with recipes gathered …
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