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Resisting Racism and White Supremacy

… denied, humanity devalued, opportunity crushed.  But the oppression does not fall equally among us. The burden is not shared. The murder of George Floyd was horrifying to witness. The

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Division III Profile: Five Students Develop Tech Venture for Assessing Livestock Health

… Josh Minot’s Division III thesis project seeks to level the playing field for small and medium farms by offering affordable technology to monitor the health of livestock. Minot and a team of four other … students, merging their individual academic paths under the name AgriGatr, have been working together to develop the

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Hampshire College, Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease

… Hitchcock Center Sign Ground Lease It’s official: With the April 17 signing of a 95-year ground lease, the Hitchcock Center for the Environment is relocating to the Hampshire College …

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Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections

… Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections The Hampshire of Color weekend March 28-30 was more than a reunion. By connecting alums with current students over the three-day event, it was a chance to look back at how … multicultural community has grown and thrived over the years, while also looking ahead to how to strengthen …

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Hampshire Is Going 100% Solar for Electricity

… of 15,000 solar panels, covering approximately 19 acres on the 840-acre campus, the centerpiece of its plan to produce 100 percent of campus … has applied for town permits to begin construction of the two photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays and a Tesla …

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Sports Recap: Three Hampshire Teams Compete in League Playoffs

… Hampshire sports teams weren’t joking as they competed in the playoffs in Yankee Small College Conference (YSCC), with the cross country teams traveling to the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) …

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College Breaks Ground on Solar Arrays, Aims to Drop CO2 Emissions by 3,000 Metric Tons

… School of Natural Science Dean Steve Roof in remarks at the groundbreaking ceremony for Hampshire College’s 19 acres … on an annualized basis. A week ago he’d been in the Arctic leading undergraduates on an annual research trip. “The glacier I walked on is now forty feet thinner compared to …

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Sept. 6-8: Five College New Music Festival at UMass Fine Arts Center

… classical, musical modernism, new music. Tom Service of The Guardian calls it "music that is very much at the heart of our modern world." It's a musical form that's thriving in the campuses and small cities of western Massachusetts, where …

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March 31: Lorrin Thomas to Speak on Her Book, 'Puerto Rican Citizen'

… Her Book, 'Puerto Rican Citizen' Lorrin Thomas , author of the award-winning book Puerto Rican Citizen: History and … will speak in Hampshire's Red Barn on March 31 at 6 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Thomas is a professor in the department of …

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Hampshire Calls on Accomplished Culinary and Farming Alums for New Cafe

… accomplished restaurateur, is advising his alma mater on the operation of its new Kern Kafé and Prescott Bakery, a continuation of his work the past five years consulting the college on its goal to dramatically increase sourcing of …

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Hampshire to Offer 12th Annual ‘Super 8 Filmmaking in Paris’ Course This Summer

… in Paris’ Course This Summer John Courtmanche For the 12th year Hampshire College will host students in France this summer for the course “Super 8 Filmmaking in Paris: Geographies of Identity,” one of the most successful Global Education Office courses in recent …

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Students in Yearlong Course Design Across Cultures, Study in Thailand, Collaborate Across Disciplines

… and social projects that will benefit farmers there and the village at large. Fourteen students — eight from … six from Mount Holyoke —are working in partnership with the Thai nonprofit Joko Community Learning Centre, based in … yields and sustainability, and avoid being exploited by the government or large multinational corporations. After …

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Award-Winning Author Claudia Rankine to Deliver Race Matters Lecture at Hampshire

… Lyric earned multiple national book awards, will speak on the topic of "Creative Imagination & Race" at Hampshire's … Patterson Hall. Rankine's Citizen was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the LA Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the NAACP …

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Johnson Library to be Transformed into Library Learning Commons

… Commons Hampshire College is using a $65,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to research and develop a … director Jennifer Gunter King, “it makes more sense for the library to open up and create more communal learning spaces. This support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation signifies the importance and …

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Library Opens New Academic-Services Facility for Students

… Hampshire College has a new academic-services facility in the Harold F. Johnson Library, a large, recently renovated space on the first floor that centralizes and expands programs previously dispersed around the 800-acre campus. The facility's ribbon cutting and launch …

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Hampshire Writing Program To Host Award-Winning Author Helen Benedict for Public Reading

… nonfiction writer, novelist, playwright and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, Helen Benedict, whose groundbreaking coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War , …

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President Lash's Convocation Speech

… faculty, friends, welcome to Hampshire's 44th Convocation. The summer is a restfully slow time here, but you all bring life back to the campus. It is good to have our community together again. … David Smith, who in 1970 took a huge risk to leave the Chair of a leading American Studies Department to move to …

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Sustainable Revolving Fund Lights Up Hampshire Performances

… A week of performances on Hampshire's main stage uses "the amount of electricity that a household uses in a month," says Amy Putnam, the theatre program's staff technical director. That makes … big electric bill and carbon footprint. New LED lights, on the other hand, use a fraction of the energy that …

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Library Exhibition Interweaves Psychoanalysis, Printmaking, and Poetry by Annie G. Rogers

… Poetry by Annie G. Rogers Hampshire College will celebrate the opening of an exhibition of recently acquired prints … professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology. The public reception will be held Wednesday, March 21, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. on the second floor of the Harold F. Johnson Library. Published …

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Poet Ross Gay, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award, To Present Reading

… orchardist, and creative writing professor Ross Gay is the featured writer for this year’s Andrew Salkey Memorial … Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude , has placed him in the spotlight of the poetry world, having won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts …

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Hampshire Dedicates Kern Center, Explores Solutions in Environmental Justice, Green Building, Education

… Education John Courtmanche Hundreds of members of the Hampshire community and invited guests attended the R.W. Kern Center dedication and symposium on Friday, … 16, a daylong event that explored from many angles the theme, “What Buildings Should Do.” World-renowned …

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Center for Design Celebrates 20th Anniversary

… for Design Celebrates 20th Anniversary Michael Medeiros The 20th anniversary of Hampshire College’s Center for Design (formerly the Lemelson Center) inspired this year’s Div IV alumni weekend theme of "Build, Create, Design," just as the center itself has inspired students and alums to design, …

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Division III: Using Microscopy to Extract Beauty

… III: Using Microscopy to Extract Beauty "I got to be the biologist, the archivist, the archaeologist, the photographer, and the artist for this …

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Hampshire to Host College Outdoor Festival April 16

… College Outdoor Festival April 16 Lara Leilani Matthias The Appalachian Mountain Club is sponsoring the 5 College Outdoor Festival this Saturday, April 16. The goal is to introduce Hampshire and other Five College …

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Alum Bob McCarthy Brings Hampshire Mojo to Hedge Fund Management

… what I did at Hampshire.” For his Division III year at the College, McCarthy researched and wrote a thesis about the economic impact of Gothic churches on the towns that erected them. That meant living in Chartres …

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