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Muhammad Delivers Eqbal Lecture on Race and Policing
… 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 Khalil Gibran … “Life in a Penal Democracy: Race, Policing, and the Limits of Liberal Reform,” the Harvard Kennedy School professor of …
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Area Of Study
Biological and Life Sciences
… and Life Sciences The natural sciences form a set of theories, methods, and data for understanding the world in … is not just information to learn; it is a process and way of thinking. You are here Sitewide Search Biology and life science students at Hampshire take advantage of courses on campus and throughout the Five College …
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Ethics & the Common Good Project Awards Student Grants
… Good (ECG) Project is pleased to announce the recipients of the ECG Fall 2017 Student Project Grants. Each year, ECG … research, and internships that align with the mission of the Ethics and the Common Good Project, supporting … community engaged learning experiences on issues of the common good and ethical inquiry. Student awardees …
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Recent Graduate and Documentary Filmmaker Mecca Lewis on How Investigation and Play Infuse her Work
… filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. After finishing one of my first documentary films of note during my senior year of high school, I thought Hampshire would be the best fit for …
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Hampshire Protects 46 Acres on the Mount Holyoke Range
… Protects 46 Acres on the Mount Holyoke Range A partnership of Hampshire College, Kestrel Land Trust, Massachusetts … Energy and Environmental Affairs, and the Town of Hadley permanently protects 46 acres of the Mount Holyoke Range. The protected land, owned by …
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Human Rights Leader Loretta Ross To Be Hampshire College Commencement Speaker
… submitted by fellow students, employees, and trustees of the College. Ross is an author and speaker nationally and … well as an expert on hate groups, racism, and other forms of intolerance. Her leadership was first recognized when she launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women …
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iPad Recommendations
… buy QuickOffice Pro HD for $20, but always work on a copy of your original Office document. That way, if your file gets … iBooks app that comes with the iPad is okay, and has lots of free books (and iPad user guides) available. You can also … instead, as they give you more options (and also have lots of free books). You can read any books you buy on multiple …
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Hampshire College Raises Projection for Student Enrollment, Relaunches Admissions
… U.S. states, Washington, DC, and 13 countries 32% students of color 22% first-generation students 82% living on campus … its admissions office to recruit and enroll a new class of students for 2020. Wingenbach has appointed key … Relaunching Admissions for 2020 Under the guidance of Interim Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Kevin Kelly, …
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Professor Monique Roelofs Awarded a 2015 Curriculum Diversification Grant
… Diversification Grant Monique Roelofs, Associate Professor of Philosophy, is a recipient of a 2015 Curriculum Diversification Grant for her project Theories of the Aesthetic: Rethinking Curricula in Philosophies of the …
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Faculty
Neil Stillings
… Neil Stillings Neil Stillings, professor emeritus of psychology, has taught at Hampshire since 1971. His Ph.D. … cognitive science education. He is senior coauthor of the 1987 and 1995 editions of Cognitive Science: An Introduction, the first …
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Notable Alumni
A. Kim Saal 70F
… Kim Saal 70F A. Kim Saal 70F Kim Saal is president and CEO of the Cooley Dickinson Physician Network and former … at Harvard Medical School, where he was recipient of the Blacklow teaching award for his work educating medical … and hospital staff. He was also recognized as teacher of the year at Mount Auburn Hospital. As a physician leader, …
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Marlene Fried
… Marlene Fried Marlene Gerber Fried, professor emerita of philosophy received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University. In 2010-2011, she was Interim President of Hampshire College. Her scholarship and teaching is focused … with Jael Silliman, Loretta Ross, and Elena Gutiérrez of Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive …
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Professor Alan Goodman featured in Discover Magazine and Two Podcasts Focused on Race and Structural Racism
… on Race and Structural Racism Hampshire College Professor of Biological Anthropology and former president of the American Anthropological Association Alan Goodman was … Outside Gets In,” Goodman and Tom Leatherman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, …
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Division III Profile: Speech, Music, and Emotion
… III thesis project, Emma Opitz researched which parts of music and speech reflect four emotions: anger, joy, … undertook a similar study with speech at the University of Vienna. Opitz worked with a team of the University researchers who had a group of participants …
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PopDev Program Writes Background Chapter for UN Report
… at Hampshire College, is proud to announce the launch of the UN Women flagship report The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development: Gender Equality and Sustainable …
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Notable Alumni
Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry 92F
… 92F Rod Roddenberry is a television producer, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, and president of the Roddenberry Foundation Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., is the guardian of the Roddenberry legacy and champions its timeless and …
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Pustejovsky Examines Responses to Trauma through Music, Art, and Art History
… Art History Hometown: Boston Faculty Advisers: Professor of Architectural and Art History Karen Koehler and Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music Marty Ehrlich Academic … why things that are harsh and frightening are capable of bringing people pleasure. For my Division III project, I …
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Hampshire Professor Featured in BBC Documentary
… Hampshire Professor Featured in BBC Documentary The work of Hampshire College professor Lise Shapiro Sanders 90F … the new BBC documentary series Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter . Sanders’ 2006 book, Consuming … the first book-length publication to explore the history of the British shopgirl, and it proved an important resource …
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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 to students … Preference is given to projects conforming to the spirit of Thoenes' remarkable, tragically brief, career as a foreign …
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Professor Johnson Publishes Book on China's One-Child Policy
… China’s Hidden Children , by Kay Ann Johnson, professor of Asian studies and politics, was recently published by the … book, subtitled Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy , Johnson assesses the effects of the one-child policy on China and its people. The book has …
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Professor Annie Rogers on Language and Art by Patients in Psychosis
… Rogers’s Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language (Karnac Books, May 2016) explores the connection … in psychosis and incorporates first-person accounts of the experience. On April 27, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Rogers will present slides of art from within psychosis from her book in the Kern …
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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery
… by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery An exhibition of pinhole photographs captured by Hampshire College alum … Center on campus from November 18 to December 14. All of Freedberg’s works in the posthumous exhibit were captured … Freedberg’s travels in Italy and India. The exhibit is one of two running simultaneously at the Leo Model Gallery, the …
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New Orleans Experiences Influence Disaster Policy Studies
… to get involved with disaster relief (in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina),” he says. “At Hampshire, I started … his experiences in New Orleans assisting with a variety of community outreach organizations led him to concentrate on … policy, specifically disaster policy, into my study of politics,” he said. For his Division III work, Migliaccio …
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Hampshire to Host National Symposium on Black Aesthetics
… to Host National Symposium on Black Aesthetics The burst of new thought on black aesthetics, incited in part by the tragic deaths, incarceration, and inequality of black people today and their response in resistance, is the focus of a public symposium taking place this weekend, March …
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CBD Awards Grants to 12 Student Innovators for Summer Projects and Internships
… grants to 12 Hampshire College students to fund an array of summer projects and internships, ranging from an archeological exhibit in Ghana, to an exploration of cross-cultural perspectives on reproductive health, and a study of gendered play preferences in children. CBD Director Dr. …
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