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Alums Pallaoro and Tirado to Present Annual Tashmoo Lecture
… Alums Pallaoro and Tirado to Present Annual Tashmoo Lecture The Tashmoo Lecture Series welcomes director/screenwriter … Tirado, both Hampshire alums, who will present and discuss the award-winning film Hannah on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in the Jerome Liebling Center, Screening Room 120. At the 74th …
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'Trans-Asia Photography Review'
… College photography professor Sandra Matthews established the Trans-Asia Photography Review . With the journal, she wanted both to recognize the rich history of nonwestern photography and to explore …
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Hanson, Pickles receive 2017 Staff Excellence Awards
… Staff Excellence Award at a presentation May 4. Hanson is the Hampshire College Farm CSA program manager; Pickles is a technical services assistant for acquisitions in the Harold F. Johnson Library. The awards recognize staff who, individually or as members of …
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Ronit Ben-Shir
… her army service when she was a youth chapter leader in the city of Kiryat Motzkin. Ronit received her B.A. in early … from Oranim, Academic College of Education. She moved to the U.S. in 1991 and has been an early childhood educator in the Boston area ever since. In 2002, Ronit opened and served …
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Karen Koehler
… in English literature and M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois, her master's in art history from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.F.A and Ph.D. in … and design, with an emphasis on connections between the built environment, visual culture, and critical theory. …
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Hampshire College to Host TEDx Event on October 18
… on Friday, October 18. It will be built around the theme "misadventures." Amherst, MA (September 23, 2013) - … Franklin Patterson Hall (FPH) on October 18, 2013. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the main lecture hall of FPH. The event is free and open to …
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I Am My Div III and My Div III Is Me.
… every other college and university more than Division III, the primary occupation of every student's last year. At the four other Five College consortium schools, some people … added countless parenthetical "(senior project)"s after the words Division III, but that doesn't nearly cover it. …
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President’s Invite to Invent Hampshire’s Future
… College anew. Fifty years ago, as Hampshire opened, the College’s staff, students, faculty, and Board embraced a radical mission: to utterly reimagine the purpose of liberal education for the times in which they lived, and make that vision happen. …
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Campus Gathers at Engage! Conference to Learn, Listen, and Build Community
… Conference, a daylong learning opportunity to advance the College’s goals of promoting a deeper understanding of … Organized by a 20-member planning committee under the aegis of the The Office for Diversity and Multicultural Education , …
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Researching Better Ways to Teach 21st Century Science
… ways to better teach 21st century scientific practices. The grant is funded through the NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and … about helping people understand how science works in the twenty-first century," said Zimmerman, who noted that …
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Michele Hardesty
… from Columbia 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 frameworks. …
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Update from President Nelson: March 8, 2019
… couple weeks, day in and day out, as it should be, given the challenges before us. I have the deepest respect and gratitude for everyone who has been … even before I officially joined this amazing community, the world needs Hampshire. And we need Hampshire to continue …
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'What Are Those Alien Things In Bacteria?' Professor Dobro and Team of Scientists and Students Publish Discoveries
… structures in bacteria and published its findings in the Journal of Bacteriology, from the American Society for Microbiology. The discovery and recording of these macromolecular …
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Start-up in Senegal
… but found profiteering instead. “I learned that the program was actually exploiting the communities it was supposed to serve,” says Kourouma, who … was no equal power among shareholders, and when we left the country, the program fell apart.” He says that as …
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Populationism and Prejudice
… Populationism and Prejudice Abigail Meisel The topic of population control is now very much in the news because limiting population size has been linked to … environmental problems with calls for limiting or reducing the population (an ideology called “populationism”) by …
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Store and Send Letters of Recommendation
… for a flat annual fee of $48 (as of 2022). regardless of the number of documents included in that delivery. When … for a flat annual fee of $48 (as of 2022). regardless of the number of documents included in that delivery. When …
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Open-Access Education: Students Win When Schools Team Up
… and partner, across public and private education. And the winners are students, educators, and the communities we serve. In her final year at Hampshire … most of her thesis research at nearby Smith College, under the direction of a committee of professors from both …
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Alum Melissa Hoffer 84F Joins Environmental Protection Agency as Key Member of Incoming Leadership Team
… Agency as Key Member of Incoming Leadership Team Amy Diehl The Environmental Protection Agency announced key members of the agency’s incoming leadership team who will advance the Biden-Harris administration’s agenda to tackle the …
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Hampshire Named Top 10 School to Study Game Design by Princeton Review and PC Gamer
… PC Gamer Hampshire College has been ranked #6 on a list of the top 50 undergraduate schools to study game design for 2017, by The Princeton Review and PC Gamer. The Princeton Review chose the schools based on a survey it …
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February 8, 2019: Hampshire Update
… Friday’s Board announcement—extremely trying for much of the time, though with moments that have been incredibly heartwarming. Both the people and the structures of Hampshire are being stressed by the …
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Carl M. Ries Named Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of Hampshire College
… Hampshire College is pleased to announce Carl M. Ries as the vice president for finance and administration and … operations. Previous to joining Hampshire, Ries served as the chief financial officer of the Los Angeles Opera Company, one of the largest opera …
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Hampshire College Alums Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and Miatta Kawinzi Awarded 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowships
… 07S were each awarded a $50,000 Jerome Hill Fellowship. The fellowships, named for the philanthropist Jerome Hill, are to be used over two consecutive years and “support the creation, development, and production of new works by …
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Ravett Films Featured in Retrospective
… films were recently featured in a retrospective at the Festival Film Dokumenter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the oldest documentary-only film festival in Southeast Asia. … Ravett’s work was screened December 11 and 12, 2014, with the retrospective curated by former student Sandeep Ray 88F. …
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Soundin' Like Weself: Jacob Hochberger's radio documentary featured on Afropop Worldwide
… documentary featured on Afropop Worldwide Mike Medeiros The half-hour radio documentary Soundin’ Like Weself: The Trinidadian Rapso Tradition, produced last year by … as his final Divisional III project, has been picked up by the internationally syndicated radio series Afropop …
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Div III Profile: Maximilian Beauchene Explores U.S. Interventions and Global Conflicts
… in three nations — Libya, Yemen, and Somalia — where the U.S. military has been involved in active campaigns. … intervention in each instance further destabilized the country and enabled random militias to evolve into … terrorist cells. Rather than providing stability, the U.S. presence delegitimizes the government in place, he …
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