… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… as an undergraduate, because I understood very quickly the extraordinary role Hampshire plays in transforming the lives of our students. Coming to Hampshire as a student … education is anything but safe. A college that embodies the motto “to know is not enough” demands a deeper …

… Policy As immigrants and immigration have become the fodder for electoral battles again this season, a … two decades of anti-immigrant policy at an event open to the public on campus this month. The panelists work on the front lines investigating and …

… Salman Hameed: Producing Science for Muslim Societies With the bright glow of a green screen behind him, Associate … and Humanities Salman Hameed begins his talk on Pluto and the images of the dwarf planet and its moons taken by the New Horizons …

… was hired at Pixar studios. His experience in creating the animated film  Union  for his Division III capstone … an introductory 3-D animation course. He then continued the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and … III chair, with Professor of Computer Science Lee Spector the other member of the committee. Neuburger’s talent with …

… is announcing a $5,000,000 investment in its Change in the Making campaign by Paula H. and James S. Crown 71F. Mr. … Challenge that aims to raise significant support from the College’s first five entering classes of 1970–1975 in honor of Hampshire’s 50th Anniversary year. Change in the Making: A Campaign for Hampshire has raised $19,456,747 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 4. Preliminary projections for fall enrollment on the Amherst, Mass. campus: 700-750 students representing 42 … Wingenbach has appointed key administrators and is guiding the College in its work advancing other key priorities: delivering a quality education in the most student-driven degree program in the country, …

… John Courtmanche Hampshire alum David Shulkin, one of the most accomplished physicians and medical executives in the nation, was unanimously confirmed across party lines by the Senate in February and is now serving as US Secretary of …

… Reel to Reel to Reel Abigail Meisel No one would ever use the word dynastic to describe Hampshire College. But it’s undeniable that the film program has linked one cohort of successful documentarians to the next, providing successive generations of directors, …