… 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 …

… President Nelson Dear Hampshire Community, As we begin the new year and students prepare to return to campus, I’d like to provide an update on the Hampshire Visioning Project announced last fall and tell … a thriving and sustainable future for Hampshire. With the guidance and passion of Hampshire’s trustees we’ve begun …

… infection that can result in meningitis — swelling of the covering of the brain and spinal cord — and bloodstream infection. Because the disease can be so serious, UMass Health Services has …

… 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 …

… Nyong'o (00F) learned that flowers grown in Kenya for the European market come at a very high price: the systematic sexual harassment of poor women, who comprise the majority of workers in the industry. Nyong'o, a recent …

… archiving, and bringing a certain kind of life" to the images and sounds he records. It's a link that ties together the disparate musical styles featured in three of his most … first heard Devashish Dey at a performance held during the singer's time as a visiting professor of music at Smith …

… media.  Wingenbach was unanimously appointed this month by the Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the search committee . Wingenbach delivered these public …

… Hampshire College Community, At its meeting last month, the Board of Trustees voted to “resolve to admit a class for fall 2020 and proceed with the steps necessary to do so successfully.” People have asked, why is the Board confident they can enroll a new class next fall …

… Hoe Down Abigail Meisel The annual summer conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) will convene at Hampshire Aug. 9–11.  The three-day event celebrates grassroots organic farming and …

… of film, video and Africana studies, has been awarded the Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s 2014 Undergraduate Film … undergraduate student working in film. Waite plans to use the Princess Grace Foundation scholarship money to shoot her … College Division III film in Los Angeles this fall. The film will concentrate on a fictional portrayal of the …

… Jamie Matheson 11F, and Amit Ringel 08F—won first prize in the inaugural Health Literacy Hackathon . The Hackathon, held October 13 and 14 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was sponsored by …

… nonprofit organizations has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to improve mathematics … through college in Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley. The Western Massachusetts Mathematics Project (WMMP) is the latest project of the 27-year-old Five College Schools …