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Eddie Mandhry 97F
… co-founded by the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy. He is presently leading the Virtual … for Advanced Potential, a global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance the field of talent discovery and development, connecting more individuals from diverse …
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March 20, 2019: The Next Phase of Our Work
… future. This new group, selected for their expertise and experience primarily in the fields of business and education, will add vital off-campus perspective to our discussions and complement the strength of our on-campus Options …
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New Faculty Q&A with Jennifer Bajorek
… literature at the University of California Irvine and followed that with a postdoc in the rhetoric department … research in Cotonou, Benin. You have to ride a motorcycle, and you have to wear high heels. I can even get off a moving … twenty? Okay, thinking about what’s available in English and deliberately excluding books I’ve written about: Kathy …
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Hampshire Winter Dance Concert 2020
… Winter Dance Concert, an annual concert featuring student and faculty choreography that embraces dance as an expansive, inclusive, and incisive art form. This year’s concert features choreography by Hampshire College professor and dance artist Deborah Goffe entitled We Owe Each Other the …
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Hampshire College Professor Chris Perry Receives Technical Achievement Award
… excited about the 2014 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards season. Fingers are crossed for alumna … Nyong'o 03F who, after wins at the Screen Actors Guild and Critics Choice Awards, is widely considered a frontrunner … on March 2 for her impressive work in 12 Years a Slave . And for the inspiring short documentary nominee The Lady in …
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An Alternative Microcredit Model
… assistant professor of anthropology at Hampshire College and chair of the Five College Buddhist studies certificate … work at Hampshire. She designed, raised the funds for, and implemented a microcredit program, complete with business … early in life?in the sixth grade, to be exact, when she and five of her classmates successfully petitioned their St. …
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First All-Campus Address by President Ed Wingenbach: September 3, 2019
… Hampshire College. It gave us the opportunity to save it and that's the work that we have to do now… It'll be a long … the students—for taking the risk of sticking with us and sticking with Hampshire College, knowing the challenges that are still ahead and knowing the work that's still to be done. Thank you for …
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Faculty
Robert Rakoff
… Robert Rakoff Robert Rakoff, professor emeritus of politics and environmental studies, received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He taught at the …
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Asymptomatic Testing Program for Fall 2020
… Safe for School program. The test is a PCR viral assay and involves a quick and easy self-administered nasal swab, with results available … 36 hours. The on-campus testing site, testing procedures, and scheduling are designed to meet all COVID-19 infection …
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Five College Program Offers Certificate in Reproductive Justice
… The Five College Program in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice provides students an academic opportunity they … variety of disciplines across the Five College Consortium and addresses such diverse issues as access to reproductive health care, welfare policy, gender justice, and adoption. It also connects students with campus-based …
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An Alum from Hampshire's First Class, Luis Hernandez Pays It Forward
… but today he’s one of the school’s staunchest champions and vice chair of the board of trustees. His education funded … donors, Hernandez — class of fall 1970 — took a chance and came to a new, experimenting college far from home. The … because he would be in the College’s very first class. “And it’s probably the best risk I’ve ever taken.” A lifetime …
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Professor Dorceta Taylor Brings Social Justice to Environmental Studies
… the color of wokeness. The very government agencies, NGOs, and foundations who promulgate environmental justice often … that begins in the classroom. “I’d look around my classes and wonder ‘where are all the other black students?’” said … Center is part of the College’s Cultural Village, and its new building was designed to meet Living Building …
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Cassidy Rappaport 12F Wins Charley Richardson Award
… Richardson Award Richardson, a labor union activist and educator who was a member of Hampshire’s first incoming … The award was established by his classmates, friends, and family to honor his dedication to organizing and building the collective voice and power of workers and …
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Hampshire To Dedicate R.W. Kern Center with Daylong Community Event
… of the R.W. Kern Center, its extraordinary net-zero-energy and -water building, constructed of mostly local and entirely nontoxic materials. The special, daylong event … take place Friday, September 16, beginning at 9:00 a.m. and featuring a dedication ceremony at 10:00 a.m. plus …
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Grads Urged to Nurture Community, Work for Justice at 2017 Commencement
… the “very sweet sound that brightens every spring” and marks a student's passing their Division III project, was … who had wrestled with difficult questions, recruited and collaborated with their faculty committees, and “ignored conventional approaches,” said President Lash, …
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Div III Tests Boundaries
… Taliesin Nyala 07F In writing a play about Israel and Palestine, May graduate Sharon Goldberg (04F) sought to … The walls she hopes to dissolve are those between audience and actors, past and present, education and entertain-ment. Her desire to …
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Hampshire Student Receives Earl Ubell Grant To Support Div III Thesis
… of writing a thesis examining the medical use of cannabis and its legalization in Massachusetts in 2012. "My Division … the Massachusetts law within the past, present, and future of cannabis prohibition and legalization," said Condron. Named to honor the memory of …
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Hampshire Alumna Kate Browne 78F Builds Community Art
… Kate Browne 78F Builds Community Art Artist, writer, and director Kate Browne 78F recently built a 26-foot x … of a larger collaborative arts project that Browne created and has been working on since 2008, in which she builds giant cocoons with artists and townsfolk out of local materials. Each cocoon stands …
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Filmmaker's Panel on Islamophobia, Being Muslim in America
… Program, South Asian Studies, the Eqbal Ahmad Initiative, and their cosponsors announce “Islamophobia and Its Discontents,” a panel discussion, on Wednesday April … of Hampshire, who will address Islamophobia as racism, and Mehammed Mack (French and comparative literature), Smith …
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Faculty
Junko Oba
… from International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Wesleyan University, where she trained as an ethnomusicologist and sound recording archivist. She teaches ethnomusicology, …
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Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
… Intelligence Made Simple Abigail Meisel When Nirman Dave and Tapojit (Tapu) Debnath met at Hampshire’s orientation for … to have in common. Both originally from South Asia (India and Bangladesh, respectively), their friendship led not only … but doing this requires complex data-science skills, and many mid-size and smaller companies can’t afford a …
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Students Win Top Design Prize at National Conference
… undergrads had just completed their first year of college, and the sixth had completed his second. Aldyn Markle, Claire Shillington, Karen Panke, Abbi Wilson, Joe McGlynn, and Matt Raymond had been part of the Integrated Sciences … green-building standard to supply its own electricity and water and treat its own wastewater. The centerpiece of …
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Project Changes Paper Purchasing Policy
… "The Effect of Post-Consumer Content on Paper Jamming and Malfunction in Printers and Convenience Copiers," science student and May graduate Vanessa Gravenstine field-tested her ideas …
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April 22: Earth Day – Regional Food System Strategies Panel
… Food System Strategies Panel Environmental educator and writer David Orr, Henry P. Kendall Foundation executive director Andrew W. Kendall, and CISA special projects director Margaret Christie will … in Franklin Patterson Hall’s Main Lecture Hall, is free and the general public is invited. A leading visionary and …
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Study Abroad: A Semester in Madrid
… 09F "No tenemos ni notas ni examenes," I explained, again and again, to almost everyone I met. "Y cada uno de nosotros … all kinds of surprising benefits, new skills learned and new ideas encountered. For a Hampshire student, it also … skills necessary to explain Hampshire's interdisciplinary and self-directed structure wasn't my goal, but turned out to …
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