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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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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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Third Annual Engage! Day Focused on Anti-racism, Social Justice, and Inclusion
… of Hampshire students, staff, and faculty gathered for the College’s third annual Engage! Community Day of Education … members were invited to workshops and events with the goal of strengthening relationships, celebrating … hurt and division caused by last spring’s debate over the future of the College. Attendees joined in nearly 20 …
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Students from Havana Exchange Program Present Final Projects
… Projects Seven students who studied abroad in Cuba with the Hampshire in Havana spring exchange 2019 program … and beyond in Cuban culture, connecting them with the creative community through partners in Cuba, and housing … professionals in their fields of interest. In return, the program brings Cuban artists and writers to Hampshire …
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Statement In Response to Executive Order on Immigration Policy
… Executive Order on Immigration Policy Jonathan Lash Over the past few days, I have spoken with community members concerned about the recent executive orders issued by the White House regarding immigration enforcement and …
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Peter Pan Pedagogy
… Peter Pan Pedagogy Abigail Meisel The epigraph of Xuemeng Zhao’s Div III — a quote from Indian … “In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal . . . [but] … we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of job; it is freedom …
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Hampshire College Alum Represents
… comics artist. Smith came to Hampshire from Jamaica with the intention of centering her work on the visual arts. Thinking that becoming a teacher was her … path, she also studied art education. “But because of the way Hampshire is structured, I explored a lot of other …
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Matthews Retirement Exhibit Reflects on Her Time at Hampshire
… than 10 years and features images of people connected to the College combined over intervals of time or in generational groups. In the second part, Matthews is reprising Hampshire alum David … students at Hampshire,” Matthews wrote in an e-mail to the Hampshire community, “He passed away two years ago after …
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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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Hampshire College's Climate Justice League Attends Students for Just & Stable Future Conference
… Conference Dineen O'Rourke 13F In November, members of the student group Climate Justice League attended the Students for a Just and Stable Future conference and networking retreat in Worcester, MA. The weekend soon became more than we had ever expected, and …
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Students in Summer Farm Program Learn Solar Design for Agriculture
… and Cooper Holland spent their summer helping to make the Hampshire College Farm a more sustainable operation, … funded by an $810,000 National Science Foundation grant. The grant, awarded in 2014 to Holyoke Community College in … summer course in clean energy and sustainable agriculture the past two years. The 18 students who participated this …
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Hampshire Chooses Bon Appétit as Food Service Provider
… Bon Appétit following an extensive process to identify the food service provider that could best assist in its aspirations for provision of healthy food, connecting the campus farm to the curriculum, maintaining the College's reputation as a …
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Spector Receives NSF Grant To Propel Computer Programs Modeling Biological Evolution
… has now received a three-year grant of $419,000 from the National Science Foundation — his second major NSF grant … in 2015. This cutting-edge work attempts to replicate the process of evolutionary biology in computers to solve … Spector says. He is co-leading a research group called the Hampshire College Computational Intelligence Lab, in …
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Nov. 22: Screening of 'Our Nixon'
… at Hampshire College on Friday, November 22, at 1 p.m. in the Brand Screening Room of the Jerome Liebling Center. The duo will be on campus to discuss the film on Monday, …
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Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for Hampshire Professor
… professor of American literature and Jewish studies and the dean of academic support and advising at Hampshire … linguistic, geographical, and cultural boundaries. The students she will teach in Tel Aviv come from … In her Fulbright application materials, she wrote of the courses she will offer there: "One of the opportunities I …
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Michael Lesy Gives Keynote Speech at SPE Regional Conference
… Michael Lesy was selected as keynote speaker for the 2014 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Midwest … regional conference. “Yesterday Today: Photography and the Archive” was the theme of the October 16-18 SPE regional conference , …
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