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Students Design Escape Room Show To Puzzle Audiences
… 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 …
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A Deep Exploration of William Blake's Poetic Genius
… 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 …
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Culture, Brain, and Development Program to Celebrate 15th Anniversary at Family & Friends Weekend
… 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 …
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Four Receive Earl Ubell Grants
… 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 …
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James Miller
… 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, …
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Nelson Mandela, A Moral Educator
… 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 …
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April 23: Earth Week Event at Hampshire College
… 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 …
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Hampshire College Will Require All Students to Be Vaccinated for Fall 2021 Semester
… 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 …
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Assault on Democracy — Letter from President Wingenbach
… 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 …
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Campus Exhibit Commemorates Black Panther Party and Young Lords Party
… 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 …
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Hampshire Community Welcomed to Roos-Rohde House
… 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 …
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Professors Barskova, Bernstein Win 2015 Gruber Awards
… 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 …
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Quantum Teleportation Theory Pushes Boundaries in Field
… 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 …
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Hampshire Board Decision on Admitting a Fall 2019 Class
… 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 …
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Launch Update from Academic Innovation Planning Group
… 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. …
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Div III Profile: Sean Seid's Interpretations of Colonial American Music
… be traced to a unique source: Since he was ten years old, the Virginia native has worked as a musician at Colonial … balladeer into his ethnographic study, which covers the history of the program at Williamsburg as well as the details of the …
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Bridging Divides, Embracing Diversity Through Spiritual Student Life Work
… at Hampshire, Alyssa Coffey 17F has been involved with the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), an organization that … society. In our country, which IFYC rightly identifies as the most religiously diverse it’s ever been, the group partners with colleges and universities to engender …
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Lee Spector
… 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 …
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Choosing China
… her plan was to study German. She wanted to master the language, with the goal of one day teaching it to others as a second language. All that changed, however, when the directors of a local language school came to teach a …
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Baldwin Program Receives $150,000 Grant from Kenan Trust
… Scholars Program has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. The grant was given in honor of Gregory S. Prince, Jr., a … of Hampshire College, who was instrumental in developing the program, envisioning the James Baldwin Scholars as a …
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Earl Ubell Grant Awarded to Yasmine Abulhab 10F
… 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 …
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Hampshire College Offers Scholarship to Attend Vermont Law School
… and alums who would like to shape policy affecting the environment, agriculture, or energy, take note. Hampshire … Vermont Law School (VLS), consistently ranked as one of the country’s top programs in environmental law. Scholarship … earning her JD at Northeastern. She is now a clerk to the legislative council in the Vermont State House, where …
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Language of Environmental Justice
… but last semester she began putting her familiarity with the language to use on a new challenge. Working primarily with the community group Holyoke Organized to Protect the Environment (HOPE), Finkelstein was one of several Five …
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Store and Send Letters of Recommendation
… for a flat annual fee of $48 (as of 2022). regardless of the number of documents included in that delivery. When … for a flat annual fee of $48 (as of 2022). regardless of the number of documents included in that delivery. When …
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Environmentalism and Environmental Justice
… Cunningham Every black mother I know struggles to find the school that will understand their children and know them to be the learners and the voracious seekers that they actually are. Terms like …
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