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Language Learning
… intensive language program through the American Institute for Indian Studies in Lucknow, the capital of India's most … in Literacy, an organization involved in funding schools for women. She forged connections with the group after she … helped raise funds, while still in high school in Houston, for victims of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Giles is …
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Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles'
… Exile, and Defiant Miracles' Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F "For me, poetry is all about rich layers of complexity and … poems make me philosophically dizzy, echo around in me for days after reading." To Muise, poetry isn't about finding … mirror of what it means, to me, to be alive," they say. For Div III, Muise has created a two-part project, consisting …
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Div III Profile: Maximilian Beauchene Explores U.S. Interventions and Global Conflicts
… instability and civil war, creating an environment ideal for terrorist cells such as al-Qaeda, ISIS, and al-Shabaab. … creating enemies.” Beauchene says he wanted a challenge for his project, and researching covert U.S. military … peace and world security studies, a defense correspondent for the Nation , and the author of 16 books on global …
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Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters
… of the water coming through.” One goal of the lab is for students to understand the science behind the … will be teaching their classmates how to conduct each one. For the water lab, the group leaders were from Cianfrani’s … constructed and natural wetlands were good preparation for the lab. She and her classmates had toured the Kern …
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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery
… is currently stored off-site, and will be available for research at the Archives in 2019. Freedberg’s photography … and an MFA from Yale University. http://www.annacollette.com/ For more information on these two exhibits, contact … and an MFA from Yale University. http://www.annacollette.com/ For more information on these two exhibits, contact …
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Jesús A. Colmenares 03F
… of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Center for Disease Control), academic institutions, and life … position he served as Director of Contracts and Grants for New England Research Institutes. As the Director he led the proposal pipeline and contracting process for the company. Jesús holds a degree in neuroscience from …
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Div III show: Nathan Tobiason
… I am attracted to these qualities because of a desire for things to be organized but maintain some complexity," he … III this year, Tobiason also was a teaching assistant for two classes and took the Division III Concentrators Seminar for Visual Arts. View photos from Tobiason's show >> … Nathan …
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Students Design Escape Room Show To Puzzle Audiences
… associate professor of theater design, the class calls for students, guided by the professors, to create an escape … who are narrative minded.” Thirty students signed up for the class. Fay and Kallok split the group into three teams, each responsible for one of the rooms that together comprise the installation. …
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Alum Matt Hinderhofer 17F Researching Type-I Diabetes at Harvard
… Lab at Harvard, researching type-I diabetes. We sat down for a virtual interview with them to talk about their … What did you study at Hampshire? What was your Div III? For my Div III, I studied the effects of CBD on colorectal … and I differentiate them into beta cells, which are used for research for type-I diabetes therapies. I heard about the …
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Artist and Hampshire Alum Leidy Churchman 98F’s Paintings are Absorbing Meditations of Consciousness
… “It's similar to if you're talking to one friend for a while and getting advice from them and then you need to … you supposed to have that if you are just coming into it? For me back then, it was a feeling like when your eyes are … I was trying to find what I didn't know I was looking for.” But Churchman did find what they were looking for at …
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Kunga Chonyi 17F on His Div III Journey to Neurobiology and Nursing
… a student exchange program with the Central University for Tibetan Studies. We sat down with Chonyi [virtually] to … in India. While I was attending the Central University for Tibetan Studies, I learned about the relationship between … inseparable discipline that engulfs the foundation needed for understanding brain function in general. So, during my …
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Student Project Creating Smartphone Software to Monitor Blood Sugar
… use out of his smartphone. "That's how I read most of my news, that's how I check Facebook, and do all of my … "Or, when one breaks, your insurance might not pay for another one yet." If a person already owns a smartphone, … application will be "a tool that would make it very easy for people who may know enough to manage their diabetes, but …
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He Was Frequently Headed Off On a Bus
… fluent in Russian, and spent a fall in Moscow interning for U.S. News & World Report . Over three months in Russia, he … of President Mikhail Gorbachev. He drew on his reporting for his Div III, “Between Glasnost and a Free Press: Soviet …
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Tradition of Environmental Justice Courses Continues This Fall
… to the campus community, the event’s goal is not just for learning but also for influencing. “We want the event to be a tool for advocacy and a means of leverage around issues of …
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Professor Koehler Named Visiting Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art
… and Art History Karen Koehler will conduct research for her book on Walter Gropius as a Paul Mellon Visiting … Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Gropius, the founder … is the opportunity to pursue this research at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, where she expects to …
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Div III Profile: RJ Sakai, Multimedia Designer
… of tourists are designed, and why people travel. For his Division III thesis, Sakai 08F led ethnographic … research on Turners Falls—a small Massachusetts town known for its quirky events. One of the most well known events in … town was perceived. Visitors would come to Turners Falls for its fun events, but would leave without paying attention …
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Five College Connections: Three International Students Take MHC Sisters' Recommendation
… Michael Samuels 09F While it's not unheard of for students at one of the Five Colleges to recommend another … , she thought that Hampshire would be a good fit for Nadir. "I wanted to do architecture as a profession later … sisters' first-hand knowledge of Hampshire was invaluable. For international students, visiting campus is rarely …
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Hampshire Community Invited to Celebrate the New Year of the Trees
… with spiritual advisor, Rabbi Ellen Bernstein. A “new year for trees” is a fitting holiday for Hampshire, where trees are held in high esteem and where … first held in Philadelphia in 1988, which was the catalyst for Shomrei Adamah, the first national Jewish environmental …
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Students across Five Colleges to compete in DataFest
… Amherst will compete head-to-head with all other teams for prizes in categories ranging from Best Insight, Best … of the company or organization that provides the data set for the competition. Student competitors also try to catch … students with the best quantitative and analytical skills for potential job opportunities. “While many participants …
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R. W. Kern Center Groundbreaking Ceremony on Nov. 14
… Ceremony on Nov. 14 A groundbreaking ceremony for the new R. W. Kern Center will be held November 14 at … Lash said: “The R. W. Kern Center provides a model for addressing global challenges and a symbol of the positive … classrooms and meeting spaces, and contain exhibit areas for display of work by students and faculty, a bookstore, and …
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Pustejovsky Examines Responses to Trauma through Music, Art, and Art History
… and frightening are capable of bringing people pleasure. For my Division III project, I performed the fourth movement of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and then I played a John Coltrane … making my own decisions and discovering what I want for myself, outside of any authoritative figure. This series, …
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Carol Varney Elected Alumni Trustee
… and collaborating with others who share her passion for the College, has been particularly exciting, though. … she says. The BAVC provides media-making tools and support for a variety of people ranging in age from 14 to 90, among … “I’ve always thought Hampshire would be a great place for many of BAVC’s youth-program graduates,” she says. “I’m …
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2013 DIV IV weekend celebrates Culture, Mind, and Body
… ideas and learn from one another. It is also a chance for alums to revisit their student experiences, as well as … highlights of the three-day Div IV schedule: Reunions for the classes of 1973, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003. A talk … Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions and well known for his research on laughter in non-human animals. Bodies, …
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Sustainable Revolving Fund Lights Up Hampshire Performances
… the theatre program's staff technical director. That makes for a big electric bill and carbon footprint. New LED lights, … the money is made back, it returns to the fund to be used for another project. In 2011, Hampshire joined the Billion … Pskowski 09F, and Rebecca Siegel 08F developed a proposal for the fund, and a charter describing how it would operate, …
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Hampshire College Dance Program Makes Strong Showing At National Festival
… Picasso and Madison Palffy submitted solos to the Festival for adjudication. The adjudicators, knowing only the title … of each piece had plentiful praise and appreciation for both pieces and selected Ailey Picasso's undigested logic … undigested logic was chosen as an alternate piece for the National Festival. Palffy is an ensemble member in …
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