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Hampshire Plans to be First U.S. Residential College Supplying 100 Percent of Electricity from On-Site Solar
… solar power systems on campus, to be installed and maintained by SolarCity following an Impact Study to … function in the community electrical-distribution systems, and determine whether any upgrades are needed for safe, stable, and reliable operations. The College and partner SolarCity …
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Second HampHack Hackathon Invites Students Beyond Tech, Across Disciplines
… students launched their HampHack event last February and invited students of art, design, and fabrication to partner with tech students at a 24-hour … at the weekend event represented not only Hampshire and the Five Colleges but also MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, …
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New Endowment Promotes Women In Business Courses, Programs
… with greedy people in three-piece suits who smoke cigars and scheme in back rooms, as the media portrays. “Businesses … complex organizations, many of them are guided by values and are solving real-world problems,” she says. “Women have … in business, Bornstein, a Hampshire alum 82F, trustee, and corporate chief financial officer, has partnered with the …
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Hampshire Board Decision on Admitting a Fall 2019 Class
… advancing this important work, the Board has deliberated and voted on three important issues: This afternoon, at its … offer to enroll via the “early decision 1” plan this year, and students who had accepted Hampshire’s offer to enroll last year but chose to take a gap year and matriculate in fall 2019. Third, the Board voted that …
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Planning for Urban Farming
… Anne Pinkerton What’s the difference between hydroponics and aquaponics? “Fish,” students Robert Mueller and Liam Malone answer in unison. Both involve growing plants, a substrate such as gravel, and circulating water. But hydroponics utilizes additive …
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Poet, Criminal Justice Reformer, Author Betts to Speak at Hampshire
… to Speak at Hampshire Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet, author, and advocate for the reform of the criminal justice system, … F. Johnson Library, Hampshire College. The event is free and open to the public. After the reading, Betts will be … at the age of sixteen, after pleading guilty to carjacking and being sentenced to nine years in prison. He imagined that …
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A Day To Learn, To Educate, To Influence
… of sustainability. The Kern Center fills me with pride and highlights the power to teach sustainability, to … perspectives, to connect over shared values. A year and a half ago, Christina Cianfrani and I started designing the Integrated Sciences first-year …
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Baldwin Scholar's Determination Brings Returns
… limit major disruptions to her life after a childhood in and out of Boston homeless shelters, as she and her mom were uprooted even into her high school years. Through it all she kept a promise to her mom and dad, who died of cancer when she was in second grade, …
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Staff
Jennifer Chrisler
… Hampshire’s chief advancement officer from 2019 to 2024, and during her tenure launched the largest major fundraising … institutional support, where she leads fundraising, alumni and family relations, enrollment, financial aid, marketing and communications, public relations, and event services. …
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Faculty
Susan Darlington
… Susan M. Darlington, professor emerita of anthropology and Asian studies, received a B.A. in anthropology and history from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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