… Community Learning Centre, based in Nan, as a component of “Designing for Life: Agriculture, Ecology, and Design in … or large multinational corporations. After seven months of intensive coursework, which included three weeks of field study in Thailand, the student teams, from a range …

… the Hitchcock Center will build its new home : a state-of-the-art sustainable building incorporating ecological design principles. The Hampshire College Board of Trustees has approved the location between the Red Barn … Center. The Hitchcock Center has announced the selection of designLAB Architects of Boston to lead the Center through …

… Kent State, One Generation Removed "All witnesses of and players in a historical event are they themselves … Spring, Maryland, Amanda Goldblatt lived in the shadow of the nation's prominent Washington, D.C., monuments and … antiwar protestors were shot and killed. Nearly a quarter of a century later Goldblatt has blended these two …

… 16F's favorite word is evapotranspiration . It’s the name of the process by which water turns into vapor through … Emory’s Div III thesis project (with a committee comprised of Professor of Hydrology Chris Cianfrani , Professor of Plant Science …

… students, faculty, staff and the public. It remains one of the few collections databases in the country that is … in technology and new accessibility needs on the part of the user, this database has revealed its age and … These facts, combined with Five Colleges’ long history of collaboration, was what originally led the Mellon …

… when describing her writing approach to questions of what is natural and what is horrific in mother-child … Morrison's Beloved , and I became overwhelmed by the idea of a mother killing her children out of love, or what she believes to be love, because she …

… around for a college, Nathan Holiday 09F had a list of interests he wanted to pursue: math, physics, religion, … students actually paid attention to his full list—instead of cutting him off somewhere near the middle—and engaged him … and the people are really friendly." In his first semester of college, Holiday is the lead teaching assistant (TA) for …

… its Ethics and the Common Good program with a private gift of $2.09 million, the donor has pledged $2.5 million more to … family foundation dedicated to advancing the culture of the common good. “This gift from SHIFT endows a … and opportunities for research to explore questions of ethics, engagement and the common good, a wonderful gift …

… University, and her B.A in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Professor Hardesty’s courses explore the multiple literary cultures of the United States, in national and transnational … She teaches that any reckoning with the literary history of the U.S. must include not only the canonized genres of …

… Hampshire students do not simply learn the principles of physics on the page. They apply concepts through extensive … and real world experience beginning in the first semester of college. You are here Sitewide Search Hampshire's academic … allows students to incorporate physics into a variety of concentrations (music, education, or architecture, for …

… Aaron Lansky 73F Aaron Lansky is the founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center and author of the Massachusetts Book Award–winning Outwitting History … in the late 1970s when he discovered that large numbers of Yiddish books were being discarded by younger Jews who …

… Donna Cohn Donna Cohn, associate professor of applied design, holds a B.S. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and a master's in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked with the Boston Center for …

… by a Hampshire College professor explores the central idea of race and how it has been made real, challenged, and … from many disciplines to show that ... the biology of race is a powerful myth. It is important, absorbing, … (AAA), the world's largest professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. …

… Telling a Larger Story Whether locating individuals of mixed heritage, getting them to open up in front of a camera, or selecting 40 minutes from 105 hours of footage, Kitama Jackson-Seeger says he has never in his …

… don't think about the people who fall through the cracks of the system," Sophie Lembeck says. Her Division III project, entitled Turnaround: An Autobioethnography of Adult Learners' Dropout and Return to Education , highlights the successes of an under-acknowledged population: adults who pursue a high …

… tests at our on-campus clinic. Hampshire’s Director of Health Services Sara Aierstuck coordinated these efforts with a testing team led by Dean of Students Zauyah Waite and the Broad Institute’s Clinical … were completed, garnering six positive results, a rate of 0.11% infection. Asymptomatic PCR viral assay tests, …

… Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising Professor of Chemistry Dulasiri Amarasiriwardena (pictured right) and Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry Rayane Moreira are recipients of the 2014 David Gruber Awards for Excellence in Teaching …

… & the Common Good Project has announced its first round of Faculty Course Development Grant recipients. The project … offers funding to support faculty in the development of courses that focus on conceptions and problems of ethics and the common good, as well as possible means of …

… Hampshire College is celebrating the 15th anniversary of Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) and its substantial support of student and faculty work at the intersections of culture, mind/brain, and human growth and development. A …

… Dogs: A Guide to the History, Talents, and Training of the Baildale, the Flounderhounder, the Angler Dog, and Sundry Other Breeds of Aquatic Dogs (Canis piscatorius) . Coppinger, professor emeritus of biology, is one of the founding professors of Hampshire …

… Color, and the Didactic Art Exhibit is actually made up of three related projects, addressing both the theory and the practice of teaching art. For theory, Beggs wrote a history of the use of interdisciplinarity at Black Mountain College, …

… Residency aims to deepen a shared understanding of restorative justice and transformative justice by … all Hampshire College students, staff, and faculty as part of Hampshire’s Community Education Days. Community Education Days are a component of the College’s new curricular model and are integrated …

… fall 2014 visiting Cuban scholar. The four-time winner of Cuba’s Critics’ Prize found an enthusiastic audience of Hampshire and Five College students and faculty. “It’s … It’s about the people.” That outlook is a key part of the Hampshire in Cuba program, which immerses Hampshire …

… Screenwriters was co-authored by Chris Perry , professor of media arts and sciences, and Eric Henry Sanders, adjunct assistant professor of writing and multimedia at Hampshire College. As award … winning screenwriters, both have a deep understanding of the art and craft of writing scenes. We spoke with them …

… Nancy Lowry Nancy Lowry, professor emerita of chemistry, holds a Ph.D. from MIT in organic chemistry, and began teaching at Hampshire in the fall of 1970.  She coordinated women and science events at … and published articles concerning the scientific education of women. Her interests include the shapes and functions of …