… 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. …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …