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Margo Dalal: Redevelopment and Entrepreneurship in Detroit
… and empty. The idea of an abandoned airport was crazy to me. But once we arrived we found some amazing examples of … progressive businesses made a big impact on me. I moved to Detroit in January 2014, where I was a resident in a program called Practice Space. It was created to help young professionals get involved in the community …
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Professor Susana Loza on Why a Hampshire Education is a Dialogue, Not a Monologue
… culture; among others. We sat down [virtually] with Loza to learn more about what she loves about teaching at … Hampshire and the variety of approaches her students take to consider the intersection of media, race, gender, and … Do you have a favorite? I love using popular culture to get students to understand the long histories and …
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Academic Innovation Planning Group
… Aaron Berman , interim dean of advising, special assistant to the dean of faculty for retention and academic innovation … Aaron Berman , interim dean of advising, special assistant to the dean of faculty for retention and academic innovation …
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Identity and Culture
… of Native American culture in the past two centuries, to be published by Wayne State University Press in spring … brings that knowledge—and plenty of questions for students to consider—to each course she creates. "I think about what I really …
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Concerns for Women's Health
… these women. May graduate Juno Obedin-Maliver is committed to that possibility. Her work as a pre-med student at Hampshire College has prepared her well to meet the challenges that lie ahead. An internship funded … the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program enabled her to spend summer 2002 in Mexico as an administrative assistant …
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Art by Numbers
… of the college gallery as much more than space waiting to be filled and wanted to use it "to address the Hampshire community." She had noticed that …
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Start-up in Senegal
… Meisel Several summers ago, when Forel Kourouma went to Rwanda as part of an internship program designed to spur economic innovation there, he expected to see entrepreneurialism but found profiteering instead. “I …
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Deborah Gorlin Wins Sarton Poetry Prize
… May Sarton (1912-1995) who has long been an inspiration to Gorlin. As winner of the prize, Gorlin’s book has been … three sections. The first third is comprised of elegies to the people and places in Gorlin’s life that are now gone. “It’s a monument of words to them,” Gorlin says, describing how she wrote to …
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Just Our Type
… — Digital Type Design and Typography It is difficult to imagine a more perfect "Hampshire" story than that of May … mentors. He took full advantage of Hampshire's flexibility to create independent study opportunities and looked for … Wallen, on the organization of knowledge from Gutenberg to Google, and became irretrievably intrigued with how …
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Ian Spalter 94F Among the "Most Creative"
… of design and experience at Foursquare, was recently named to Fast Company's 2013 list of the 100 Most Creative People … the fun part, the technology keeps evolving, and you have to reinvent, and learn new skills." Foursquare users create a … likeminded individuals. "Dennis Crowley, our CEO, likes to say, 'Someday, hundreds of millions of people will carry a …
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Hampshire Alumna Kate Browne 78F Builds Community Art
… stands alone in reflecting its community and is connected to every other in the continuum of Browne's project. So … of North Mississippi funded the Greenwood Cocoon. "I try to make myself invisible" in the process, she explained, saying that her goal isn't to tell locals about their community, but to work with them. …
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In Its 12th Year, Sandol Stoddard Fund Supports Gifted Undergraduate Writers
… Writers Joshua Murray As a single mother trying to write for a living, Sandol Stoddard saw that as her “ticket to freedom.” And since 2004, Stoddard has been punching that … students, through a fund she created that awards a stipend to gifted student writers for summer projects. Stoddard, …
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$400,000 Luce Grant Funds Research, Cultural Connections
… opportunities for Hampshire College faculty and students to build cultural connections and pursue environmental and … grant builds on a $50,000 LIASE exploration grant awarded to Hampshire in 2011, and makes up the bulk of a total of … student Binlin Xia. Grounded in Hampshire's dedication to experiential learning and sustainable practices, the …
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Hampshire and Four New England Colleges Partner on New Solar-Power Facility
… a pioneering renewable-energy collaborative allowing them to offset 46,000 megawatt hours per year of their collective … with electricity created at a new solar power facility, to be built in Farmington, Maine. The partnership represents … facility that annually will create enough electricity to power about 5,000 New England homes. Each of the colleges …
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'Art Questions' Course Provides Sweeping, Immersive Arts Experience
… recently capped their studies by presenting their work to the campus community. The presentations —written analysis, … the Humanities (NEH) “Enduring Questions” grant, awarded to only 11 percent of applicants nationwide and funding only … Courses are designed for undergraduates and teachers to collaborate in a deep, sustained program of reading and …
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Students in Summer Farm Program Learn Solar Design for Agriculture
… Higgins and Cooper Holland spent their summer helping to make the Hampshire College Farm a more sustainable operation, thanks to a program funded by an $810,000 National Science Foundation grant. The grant, awarded in 2014 to Holyoke Community College in partnership with Hampshire …
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Carl M. Ries Named Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of Hampshire College
… Hampshire College Amy Diehl Hampshire College is pleased to announce Carl M. Ries as the vice president for finance … of experience in finance and business operations. Previous to joining Hampshire, Ries served as the chief financial … said of Ries’ appointment, “I am tremendously excited to welcome Carl to Hampshire College. In addition to his deep …
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Layoffs Update and Ongoing Discussions: February 13, 2019
… February 13, 2019 Dear Hampshire Community, I want to update you on a number of key issues since I last wrote to you. First, I know that upcoming layoffs are on everyone’s minds. We’ve sought to be as careful possible and to consult with the Staff …
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Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters
… wetlands boxes into buckets below ranges from almost clear to molasses brown. Each group of students is measuring how … variables. Through those tests, the students can begin to assess the effectiveness of their wetlands design. “They constructed the boxes with a range of materials to work with. Now they’re noticing the differences among …
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Division III Profile: Speech, Music, and Emotion
… researchers who had a group of participants listen to recordings of emotionally neutral words delivered to convey the above four emotions. The study resulted in a … an understood emotional response, and related the findings to previous work on emotion in music. When she returned home …
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A Message on the Pittsburgh Shooting from Mim Nelson, David Ko, and Ellen Bernstein
… hate aimed at a people, their culture, and their freedom to assemble peacefully to practice their religion without fear. The perpetrator of … week, where a White Supremacist, failing in his attempt to enter a Black Church, killed two people of color in the …
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Sensenich Examines Native American History and its Absence from U.S. Schools
… an aha! moment for me. I decided, This is something I need to bring back to Hampshire, I wanted to start writing about what I’d been learning. I started by …
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Creating Art from Alienation
… family whenever they were in public, scanning their faces to try to understand “what” they were. My mother’s family is from … Irish,” says Burke. “People actually have come up to my brother, my parents, and me and told us which kid looks …
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Mimi Alkattan: Researching Sustainable Water-Treatment Alternatives
… work and one was wildly successful. It was interesting to me because they were done back to back, by the same group in the same community. For my … at UMass Amherst on disinfection by-products, figuring how to see what’s in the water, and treatment. We looked at …
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Charging Station for Electric Vehicles at Hampshire College
… vehicle owners at Hampshire College now have access to a permanent charging station, thanks to Nissan. Nissan donated an AeroVironment dual dock charging station to the College. It was installed in the parking lot behind …
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