… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …