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100 Percent Local Food Challenge at Hampshire College

… Foundation Grant Hampshire College is going to test the limits of regional sustainable agriculture by sourcing … of food on campus locally, and a $50,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation will support the effort. Hampshire's 100% Local Food Challenge will draw …

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Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Events

… Foster Wallace's, an experience of life as it is "lived on the nerves." Baker's work - as part of this larger trend … film, and theatre - offers an apt occasion to address the proliferation of "real-life" based reenactments, our desires for realism, and the forms that promise to deliver it. Cayer will discuss …

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Grant to Support Animal Communication Research

… Grant to Support Animal Communication Research The John T. and Jane A. Wiederhold Foundation has awarded a … of $10,000 to Hampshire College to support research into the role of environmental change in the evolution of animal communication. The project, called …

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Alumni Profile: South Hadley Mandolin Orchestra Founder Adam Sweet 80F

… 11F Adam Sweet 80F began studying and playing music at the age of four, when he started violin lessons. He continued … an interest in bluegrass and purchased his first mandolin. The mandolin is fingered the same way as a violin and he transitioned easily between …

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Hampshire’s Alan Goodman Coauthors 'RACE: Are We So Different?'

… book coauthored by a Hampshire College professor explores the central idea of race and how it has been made real, … WGBY's Connecting Point (interview begins at point 9:56 in the video) >> "This book brings together compelling evidence from many disciplines to show that ... the biology of race is a powerful myth. It is important, …

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Alum's Peace Corps Service and Master's Program Focused on International Environmental Policy

… as a Peace Corps volunteer supporting local communities in the Philippines, at the same time earning her master’s in international environmental policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at …

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Karen Marshall's Exhibit 'Between Girls: A Passage to Womanhood 1985-2015' on View at Hampshire

… following a group of middle-class New York City girls from the ages of 16 to 46, runs through November 17 in the Harold F. Johnson Library art gallery at Hampshire College. Marshall began photographing the teenagers in 1985 after being introduced to Molly Brover, …

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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery

… Freedberg using a lens-less pinhole camera will debut in the Leo Model Gallery at the Liebling Center on campus from November 18 to December 14. All of Freedberg’s works in the posthumous exhibit were captured with a pinhole camera – …

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Fall Internship Dinner 2013

… O'Rourke 13F "This is truly one of my favorite events of the year," said Hampshire President Jonathan Lash, warmly welcoming everyone to the 2013 Fall Internship Dinner, an event that showcases internship grant recipients from the Five Colleges. The dinner, held in the Red Barn on the

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Five College Sustainability Initiative

… Five College Sustainability Initiative The Five College consortium's Blue Sky Sustainability … pursue, is turning to students and faculty to help narrow the field. Last winter, the Five College campus communities (Hampshire, Amherst, …

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DEAFinitions Conference Draws Hundreds to Celebrate Deaf Culture

… third annual Deaf Studies Conference, DEAFintions, the weekend of March 24-25, to celebrate and learn about Deaf culture. The event has become important to the Deaf community in Western Massachusetts and beyond. “Deaf …

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Cuban Scholar Reflects on Mutual Benefit of Exchange Program

… Program Giovana Romano Sanchez For Tito Mitjans Alayón, the best aspect of being a visiting scholar in the Hampshire College Cuba Exchange Program was discussing … and accessing academic resources. “I want to take the whole library with me,” he said before leaving Hampshire …

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Chautauqua Institution Features Professor Darlington and Advisor Bernstein in Summer Lecture Series

… Bernstein were invited to deliver featured lectures at the esteemed Chautauqua Institution. Chautauqua, which hosts … more than 100,000 guests each summer, is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a …

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Professor Susan Darlington's "The Ordination of a Tree"

… Professor Susan Darlington's "The Ordination of a Tree" The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement, a new book by …

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2014 Convocation Keynote Address from Walter Greenleaf 75S

… College’s Convocation! I want to mention right at the beginning of this talk that I have not come here to … to catch your breath and receive an extra push, you have the Hampshire community to help you maintain your momentum. … serve as a foundation that will propel you forward for the rest of your life. It is a simple concept, but the

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Alum Dineen O'Rourke Named Brower Youth Awardee for Leadership in Environmental Movement

… Youth Award winner for 2017, recognized for service in the environmental movement, as she prepares to lead a youth delegation to the United Nations Climate Conference in Germany, November 6-17 – her second year attending the conference. The Berkeley-based organization Earth Island …

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SHIFT Foundation Increases Gift to Hampshire Ethics Program to $4.59 Million

… and a half after Hampshire College launched its Ethics and the Common Good program with a private gift of $2.09 million, the donor has pledged $2.5 million more to endow a professorship, raising the total to $4.59 million. Hampshire received the

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2010 Convocation Speech by Patricia Klindienst 71F

… not have believed them. When my father and I drove up the long entryway to Hampshire College in September of 1971, … excitement. It was only my second time in New England. The first was when I came up for my interview months earlier. … who interviewed me, sat barefoot and cross-legged on the floor before me in jeans and a flannel shirt. I had …

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Div III Participates in Harvard Linguistics Colloquium

… Colloquium Lee Morgan was selected to participate in the Ninth Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium … . Morgan presented work from his Div III thesis, entitled "The Nature and Process of Metaphorical Interpretation." In … expressions. While it might seem that accepting the invitation to participate in such a prestigious …

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Students and Athletic Staff Launch Hampshire Track and Trail Team as New Spring Sport

… season. Yes, Hampshire College now has a track program. The Track & Trail Running team began this year as a joint … in competitive varsity sports,” says Brad King, the College’s athletic director. “Before this year, we didn’t … Track and Trail brings in students who hadn’t been part of the athletic program, and also enables winter and spring …

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With Eqbal

… Hampshire, Eqbal Ahmad was billed as intellectual royalty, the kind of thinker-activist on the world’s stage whose talks you didn’t want to miss. On … critiques, questions from our guest on everything from the Algerian revolution, to Arab nationalism, to Reagan’s …

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20th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture Highlights “The Fight Back”

… 20th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture Highlights “The Fight Back” Joshua Murray Racism, discrimination, and persecution against immigrants in the United States were the subject of talks by the two speakers at the 20th-annual …

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Henry P. Kendall Foundation Grant Supports 100 Percent Local Food Efforts at Hampshire College

… Food Efforts at Hampshire College A $250,000 grant from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation is supporting Hampshire … nearly 100 percent of food on campus from local sources. The two-year grant will be used to help increase local food … deeper collaboration with agricultural leaders in the area. This funding builds on a $50,000 grant given by the

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Women's Cross Country Team Wins Conference Championship and Places First-Ever Individual Champion

… Courtmanche Hampshire’s women’s cross country team won the conference championship for the third year in a row, with Hampshire runners sweeping the top three spots, led by Clara Wagner (Rochester, NY). …

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A Sumptuous 'Repast'

… of menus from 1908, he found they "could conjure up the taste, smell, and sight of food that had been prepared, … and eaten more than one hundred years ago." Just as the menus made him think about the food, the food led him "to the people who had prepared …

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