… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… policy research institute at Hampshire College known as the Plasmodium Consortium is the first in the world to feature policy analysis by non-human scholars, …

… alumnus Roger Sherman 73S when he's looking for an intern. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, and cofounder … Films, values technical skill and a good resume, but the intangibles are often even more important. That's why he decided to take a chance with Anna Jacobson 05F. The two met at Jacobson's Hampshire graduation in 2009. "She …

… 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 …

… and learn not by lecture but by discussions facilitated by the professor.  Perhaps the best example of this is the first-year tutorial. This fall, all incoming students …

… Photographs and Notebooks Celebrates Robert Seydel The exhibition will open Wednesday, August 28, with a … more than 20 large series of works. His most famous is the posthumously published The Book of Ruth (Siglio Press, 2011), featured in the …

… professor Aracelis Girmay has won a 2015 Whiting Award. The Whiting Foundation gives the award annually to ten emerging writers in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The awards of $50,000 each are based on early accomplishment …

… will continue its accreditation, according to a vote by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) at its … November 22 and a public announcement November 23 . The ruling validates the College’s new operational and financial plans and marks …

… ECG Grants Announced The Ethics & the Common Good (ECG) Project is pleased to announce the awards for the 2018-2019 Common Good Student Project …

… rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow —will deliver the 15th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on November 1 at 4 p.m. Her talk, "Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," will be held in the Robert Crown …

… economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding director of Security in Context, a research …

… Fellowship. Rivera was one of 25 Fellows chosen by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their … talent and exceptional creativity.” Colloquially known as the MacArthur "genius" grant, the fellowship includes a stipend of $625,000 for the pursuit …

… has established a fund to honor Jackie Pritzen, one of the consortium's early leaders, who died in August at the age of 83. Pritzen was hired in 1969, four years after … having taught at Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges. Over the next 26 years she worked closely with four executive …

… Culture Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will deliver the seventh annual Schocket Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, at … Main Lecture Hall. Her talk is entitled "Class and the Disciplines." Professor Spivak is a literary theorist and co-founder of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at …

… Soliloquy’s Garden By Michael Samuels 09F "The art of letting go has never been a talent of mine," … with seven cacti, a pond, flowers, and small animals. The space also includes a pathway, and a bench to encourage visitors to linger. "I want people to consider the lives of the utilitarian objects we use on a daily …

… Celebrates Commencement: May 12–15 Congratulations to the newest Div-Free members of our community! To celebrate … article on Hampshire's 2021 commencement festivities from the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The bell ringing celebration and virtual commencement …

… College’s second Other Worlds Are Possible event of the spring semester will be held February 24 and will help kick-off the semester’s first Community Education Day on February 25. Community Education Days are part of the College’s new curricular model and are integrated …

… think all Hampshire College students by definition lean to the left, meet Ricky Tsay 06F, who was elected April 18 as chair of the Massachusetts Alliance of College Republicans (MACR). … He ran for MACR chair on a platform that argued that the Republican Party in Massachusetts needs to be renewed and …

… College graduate Joshua Marvel, was accepted into the 2005 Plymouth Independent Film Festival. Marvel completed … at Hampshire. In a series of slowly shifting scenes, the five-minute animated film depicts a burned-out husk, with … in a cycle of reclamation. Color values move fluidly from the subtle and minimalist to vibrant and sharp, creating the …