… from 253 American colleges and universities for the 2015 Fellowships. Humanity in Action supports all Fellows financially for the duration of their programs, allowing for the merit-based selection of diverse applicants. These young …

… Division III capstone project, and now he’s taking it on the road. As the primary writer and performer of Mixed-Race Mixtape, Figueroa has been refining the piece since he first performed it as part of his Div III …

… 10F has been awarded an Earl Ubell Grant. Named to honor the memory of Earl Ubell, whose distinguished career has influenced generations of science writers, the grant program recognizes and supports exceptional student work that seeks to make the scientific method or scientific findings accessible to …

… Saves Trees One Seed at a Time Abigail Meisel In the era of global warming, climate change could well wipe out … of oaks endemic to California, trees that thrive in the arid terrain typical of their native habitat. How, the team wondered, could these oaks be so resistant to …

… filmmaker Amy Goldstein 76F screened her new documentary The Unmaking of a College to a full house in Franklin Patterson Hall. The 85-minute film covers the longest student sit-in in American history—75 days …

… a documentary film by Akil Gibbons 08F , was screened at the Northampton Film Festival on October 11 at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton. Paper City … started as Gibbons’ Division III project at Hampshire. The film is “a story about the American dream in the age of …

… give a reading and talk on Sunday, March 27, at 7 pm in the Red Barn.  From a hard childhood in England in failed … for his work in diverse forms of public performative art. The official poet for the London 2012 Olympics, his Landmark Poems are installed in …

… College received an Overall Improvement Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's 2013 Educational Fundraising Awards. CASE presents the awards "to superior fundraising programs at educational institutions across the country." "It's a real testament to alums that we've seen …

… Conference Hampshire College has been selected to host the 13th Annual New England Latino Student Leadership … April 1-2. This event is facilitated and supported by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators … by Raíces, Hampshire's pan-Latinx student group. To date, the conference titled, “Solidarity Through the Decolonization …

… What Does Empathy Look Like?   What does empathy look like? The question drives this issue of Non Satis Scire for two reasons. Empathy is all over the news these days, though we won’t attempt to answer why … been on our minds at Hampshire. Empathy was written into the making of the College, even if the word itself wasn’t …

… College alum Michael Carriere 94F, associate professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, recently co-authored the book The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in …

… canceling her speech tonight that was to have been held on the Hampshire College campus. We did not cancel the speech because of the speaker, the subject of the speech, or the content. …

… College. Hampshire’s application is now live on the Common App for new and transfer students to apply to enroll in either fall or spring 2020, reinstating the College’s longstanding admissions practice of allowing students to begin or transfer in either semester. The College’s leadership team and the Board of Trustees …

… runs in her family: mastocytosis.  Her 32-page thesis, “The Effects of Antioxidants on P815 Mouse Mastocytoma Cells,” … and a highly personal one.” “I worked building off the scientific literature,” Mercado says. “I sandwiched … together two ideas that I think are cool: mast cells and the use of antioxidants as therapeutic agents.” Mastocytosis …

… III capstone project shatters preconceived notions about the disabled, and she accomplishes that partially through sheer size. The project, “Be My Body, Read My Books,” features ten 40" x … and processed digitally. “Large-format photography has the power to give subjects a heightened, more intense …

… they reveal sustained progress in aligning admissions with the college’s mission. Again, the practice disqualifies Hampshire from the U.S. News annual college rankings, as the publisher …

… awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, based in New York City, … productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Photo Credit: Kane Stewart Professor Lesy's current project, Looking Backward: Images of the World, 1900-1910 , examines mass-marketed, 3D stereo …

… Charles Pope 07F . His response was swift: "He rolled the paper up and (jokingly) hit me with it," Ellis says. Pope … her written comedy sketches for her project and abandon the frustrating documentary. Ellis seized the opportunity and wrote a season of what would become a web …

… volunteer a single word to describe James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, the book they’d been assigned months ago as the College’s common reading. It’s their second day as …

… May Help Form Minerals Are living things involved in the creation of minerals? Hampshire College microbiology … professors recently received a $40,000 grant from the Keck Geology Consortium to investigate just that. The funding will support the group, with the inclusion of six …

… Fogel 09F says of his experience diving with sharks at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk Connecticut. For his … entitled Niche , about shark conservation, which included the aquarium dive with lemon sharks and sand tiger sharks. The film portrays conservation issues from all perspectives, …

… his Division III project of writing a thesis examining the medical use of cannabis and its legalization in Massachusetts in 2012. "My Division III contextualizes the Massachusetts law within the past, present, and future of cannabis prohibition and …

… classes is already fierce. Vaisman can guess why: " The Yiddish Book Center is here, which is not a resource that exists anywhere else." That's why the College and the National Yiddish Book Center partnered to create a …

… books, among them award-winning children’s books such as the best-selling  I Like You , historical novels, lyrical adaptations of the Bible and Old English classics, as well as scholarly … nonfiction reporting and analysis. Her landmark work,  The Hospice Movement , played an important role in bringing …

… Hampshire student Charlotte Giles was able to learn the basics of Urdu through resources within the Five College consortium, but when it came to digging deeper into the grammatical foundations of the language, she decided to …