… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… and Peter Kallok, associate professor of theater design, the class calls for students, guided by the professors, to create an escape room — essentially, an … analog and digital puzzles to complete a complex mission. “The students came up with the theme, ‘Crime and Villainy in …

… narrative poems, an interconnected series in which “the same characters repeatedly appear,” he says. “Taken … works create a mystical universe that you could compare to the fantasy world of [J. R. R.] Tolkien.” Blake not only … with original watercolors, making him a singular genius in the realms of both poetry and the visual arts during the …

… Weekend John Courtmanche Hampshire College is celebrating the 15th anniversary of Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) … and its substantial support of student and faculty work at the intersections of culture, mind/brain, and human growth … present talking about their projects that were funded by the CBD Student Research Grant Program. A festive, informal …

… Jonathan Lash, President of Hampshire College Today, as the world mourns the loss of Nelson Mandela, his legacy of combining resistance and strength in the face of oppression with courageous insistence on …

… Week Event at Hampshire College Hampshire College invites the public to Climate Change and Human Survival , a panel … of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare. The event is Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Franklin … Main Lecture Hall and all are welcome; admission is free. The panel will discuss implications of the Report of Working …

… College today announced that all students returning for the fall 2021 semester will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This supports the College’s plan to return to an in-person, fully … residential, personalized, and safe college experience for the fall semester. Requests for exceptions for medical or …

… Yesterday, a violent mob incited by Donald Trump assaulted the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the legitimate outcome of the election. Trump directing his followers to storm the …

… Lords Party A new exhibit on campus brings new focus to the work of two of the most important grassroots political organizations in US history, the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party. The …

… support exceptional work that in some way seeks to make the scientific method or scientific findings accessible to nonscientists. The grant program was established by Hampshire alumnus Michael C. Ubell 70F to honor the memory of his father, whose distinguished career has …

… professor emeritus of communications, holds a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Miller's teaching … have mainly concerned new media and political culture. The latter includes work on the subjectivity of citizenship, …

… Hampshire Community Welcomed to Roos-Rohde House The barn has officially been Rehamped. A ribbon-cutting … work that transformed a horse barn formerly located at the president's house into a student gathering space. "All … at work." President Lash noted that students ran with the idea of demolishing the barn and moving it, and got the …

… Professors Polina Barskova and Herbert Bernstein are the 2015 winners of the Gruber Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising. Each winner receives $10,000 and, in the year following receipt of the award, either gives a …

… has proven interesting to NASA and others pushing the boundaries of the field of quantum physics. "It sounds very jazzy, but … said Professor Bernstein. "What it does is send the complete quantum state from a single particle that comes …

… computer science, holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in philosophy from … His main interests are artificial intelligence and the connections between cognition, computation, and evolution. He is also interested in the use of technology in music and other arts. His recent …

… a sustainable future. In advancing this important work, the Board has deliberated and voted on three important … issues: This afternoon, at its winter meeting in Amherst, the Board first voted not to delay their decision regarding admitting a fall class. Second, the Board authorized the College to admit two distinct …

… Planning Group Dear Hampshire College Community, The mandate of the Academic Innovation Planning Group (AIPG) is to develop … involvement to identify a viable way forward, true to the college’s mission, within a very tight time-frame. …