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Community Commons Summer Grants Announced
… through grant-funded internships, volunteer placements and independent projects. These experiences are invaluable to students as they explore and envision the academic and career paths they want to pursue. This year, however, the …
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Alum Makes $2 Million Donation, Second Seven-Figure Contribution This Month
… 70F contributed $2 million to partner with Paula H. and James S. Crown 71F on the Crown Founders Challenge, which … its launch, in January 2019. A retired NASA scientist and namesake of her own asteroid, Dr. McFadden is known … Science Center, where she helped refurbish the innovative and collaborative open laboratories. “As a member of …
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Student-Driven Theatre On Display in Hampshire’s Theatre Board
… Theatre Department was founded when a group of between 30 and 50 students, indignant and outraged at the lack of performing arts on campus, … several days in protest. But whether it’s legend or fact — and I was told emphatically that it’s fact —is unimportant; …
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Student Plans Hampshire Deaf Studies Conference To Remove Barriers
… fourth-year student, is committed to bridging the hearing and Deaf communities within the bounds of her Division III … studies on portrayals of d/Deafness in mainstream media, and serving as lead organizer on a new Deaf Studies … college, she didn’t really know there was a Deaf culture and community. Daniels cites her first ASL professor, Ruth …
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E-Newsletter: Special Div III Issue
… Serpulids are marine worms that secrete calcareous tubes and attach to hard surfaces, such as stone or shell. They are found around the globe and in a range of environments, but almost always in an … to know why the reefs formed: what caused this unique and fascinating grouping of serpulids in intertwined, …
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College Breaks Ground on Solar Arrays, Aims to Drop CO2 Emissions by 3,000 Metric Tons
… to Drop CO2 Emissions by 3,000 Metric Tons Mike Medeiros and John Courtmanche, Photos by Mike Medeiros “Hampshire … average was December 1984—32 years ago, he said. Roof and half a dozen other speakers from Hampshire and its solar-project partners delivered remarks at the …
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Hampshire a Top-40 College for Alums Earning a Doctorate, Federal Data Reveals
… Federal Data Reveals Federal data on US colleges and universities rank Hampshire College #39 nationwide by … list to Dartmouth, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia. The result is notable from a college whose … design their own academic programs with faculty advisers and receive written evaluations instead of grades. According …
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Three Hampshire Graduates Receive 2016-17 Fulbright Awards
… received Fulbright grants from the US Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, it … The awards to Eve Allen, Kristina Moss Gunnarsdóttir, and Leanna Pohevitz will enable them, respectively, to lead … in Mexico plus organize workshops for artisans there, and teach English and perform linguistics research in Turkey. …
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Hampshire Celebrates 2020 Graduates at 50th-Anniversary Commencement, Held Online
… which many upcoming graduates had to vacate campus early and missed the beloved tradition of ringing the Div Free bell … their Div III. Here are just a few examples of the diverse and highly individual projects. Elizabeth Green Dreamstate: … Micael Jude Sobel Consuming Food’s Image: Race, Gender, and Class in Contemporary Food Media Katherine Torres Causes …
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Suitable for Framing
… didn’t always look like diplomas.” After she graduated and received one with her name on it, Lancaster 70F moved to California and didn’t give it another thought. Fast-forward to last … talking with Ken Rosenthal, a founding Hampshire employee and the College historian, and learned that his daughter had …
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Designing for a Purpose
… process, either. Collaborative skills, mistakes, and inspiration keep a good idea going until it becomes a … by Associate Professor of Public Health Elizabeth Conlisk and Hampshire alum Miriam Cremer. Cremer, an obstetrician and gynecologist, is the founder of Basic Health …
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Results of Removing Standardized Test Scores from College Admissions
… to the outcomes of a test, the only incentive for schools and students to innovate is in the form of improving test-taking and scores. Teaching to a test becomes stifling for teachers and students, far from the inspiring, adaptive education that …
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Staff
Howard Wein 93F
… Wein 93F Leverett, Massachusetts Howard Wein is founder and principal of Howard Wein Hospitality, LLC, an advisory and venture firm serving both the local and global hospitality communities. He is an experienced …
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Paul Murphy
… of a great co-teaching team at the Early Learning Center and to be a member of the dynamic and inspired teaching staff. Paul believes in emergent curriculum, co-learning alongside children, and working together with everyone to discover, explore, and …
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Hampshire Names New Dean of Students
… Dean McCrae served most recently as vice president and dean of student life at Washington & Jefferson College in … of the student affairs staffs of Sarah Lawrence College and the San Francisco Art Institute. McCrae holds a doctorate in educational leadership, administration, and policy from Fordham University as well as a master's in …
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Five College Africa Day on November 5
… Day on November 5 Posted: October 27, 2011 From drumming and dance to panel discussions and stories, Five College Africa Day offers something for … Joseph Sebarenzi, former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament and survivor of the Rwandan genocide, starts off the day's …
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Hampshire College Professor Alan Goodman to Present at Upcoming UN Training Conference
… is sponsored by the UN Network on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, a network established in 2012 to improve conversation and cooperation between various UN departments, agencies, and funding programs. Goodman’s “Master Class” presentation …
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Faculty
Lawrence J. Winship
… (magna cum laude, honors in biology) from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he completed his dissertation on nitrogen fixation and nitrate assimilation by lupines in coastal California. He … woody plants, particularly alders. His recent research and teaching interests include the biophysics of gas …
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Notable Alumni
Gary Marcus 86F
… Marcus, director of the Infant Language Learning Center and a professor at NYU, is the author of books including Guitar Zero and Kluge Gary Marcus is a leading voice in artificial … intelligence. He is a scientist, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur — founder of Robust.AI and …
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Recognition for Professor Rachel Rubinstein's "Members of the Tribe"
… been awarded an honorable mention in the Cultural Studies and Media Studies category of the 2012 Jordan Schnitzer Book … is associate professor of Jewish American literature and culture, and dean of academic support and advising, at Hampshire …
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Kim Lee Ripley 90F
… is a Hampshire College alum who has been teaching infants and toddlers for nearly 20 years, including at Nonotuck … the Skinner Lab School at the University of Massachusetts, and, for the past 13 years, at the Early Learning Center.
… in study tours of the early childhood schools of Pistoia and Reggio Emilia, Italy. Kim has been published in the book …
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Hampshire Alumna Christina Salway 00F on NBC's 'American Dream Builders'
… Builders' Hampshire alumna Christina Salway 00F , creator and owner of ElevenTwoEleven Design , an interior design … Dream Builders will bring teams of interior designers and home builders together in a competition to renovate and redesign homes with creativity and style in short periods …
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Three Hampshire Alums Receive Nonprofit Excellence Award
… Hampshire alums Mollie Hartford 01F, Lisa Dana Goding 88F, and Kate Lindroos-Conlin 04F and their nonprofit organization It Takes a Village were … 2009, It Takes a Village has provided free postpartum and early parenting support to families with infants and …
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Exhibition in the Hampshire College Art Gallery
… College Art Gallery The exhibit runs through September 28 and features the work of a diverse group of artists from Europe, North America, and the Middle East who interpreted the tragedy through their … Street is named after the 10th-century Iraqi poet and had been the center of literary, intellectual, and …
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Faculty
Mark Feinstein
… New York (1977). His original training was in linguistics, and his early research and publication was in phonology, the study of the sound … He later turned his attention to the evolution of speech and language, and his research and teaching focus is now on …
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