… faculty after spending three years as assistant professor of semantics at Heinrich-Heine-University, in Düsseldorf, … especially semantic theory, is that developing a theory of meaning lets us know a lot about how the mind works. How … two natively: English and Russian. I speak a little bit of Spanish and, sadly, not enough German, considering I lived …

… see who can best analyze big data and attract the interest of employers at the 2015 American Statistical Association … Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst will compete head-to-head with all … from Best Insight, Best Visualization, and Best Use of External Data. The collaboration between academe, …

… New Hampshire Poetry Prize for her poetry collection, Life of the Garment . The award honors the poet, novelist, and … who has long been an inspiration to Gorlin. As winner of the prize, Gorlin’s book has been published by the … , won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize in 1997. Life of the Garment is arranged into three sections. The first …

… its own waste, and meet all sustainability requirements of the Living Building Challenge™. President Jonathan Lash … R. W. Kern Center as “a physical embodiment of the Hampshire College community’s values, and a teaching tool in and of itself.” It will serve as an educational laboratory …

… sculptures, and embroideries, surrounding the tools of her craft: brushes, paint, cloth, clay, embroidery thread, … into another and another,” says Dezsö, associate professor of art. “Because I have such a wide-ranging practice, my … “world’s largest children’s literature award.” She’s one of 215 candidates from 59 countries whose names were …

… Culture, Mind, and Body, celebrated the College's 43 years of interdisciplinary explorations across the College, as well as 10 years of the Culture, Brain, and Development program. The goal of Div IV is to bring together the Hampshire community to …

… Line, See Where it Leads You This is the third in a series of conversations between two members of the faculty, one with decades of experience at Hampshire, the other fairly new to the …

… at SPE Regional Conference Hampshire College Professor of Literary Journalism Michael Lesy was selected as keynote … Today: Photography and the Archive” was the theme of the October 16-18 SPE regional conference , which was held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Campus. The SPE cites as its mission …

… Jon Krakauer 72F Jon Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild , Into Thin Air , and Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild and Under the …

… major disruptions to her life after a childhood in and out of Boston homeless shelters, as she and her mom were uprooted … it all she kept a promise to her mom and dad, who died of cancer when she was in second grade, resulting in … program, offering a full scholarship for her first year of college. Her top priority was to find the right fit. …

… Giovana Romano Sanchez How do racism and the stigma of weight affect the self-worth of youth in Franklin County? That was the question a group of adolescents  in Greenfield , Massachusetts, decided to …

… college experience. “I realized that, over the duration of two semesters in Cuba, I had connected with all these … be great if we could showcase them with an exhibition of all our friends’ works and celebrate blackness in Cuba. … the Common Good (ECG) program. Troncoso was the recipient of one of the first ECG summer internship grants, which fund …

… community detailing the progress we have made on a number of issues, many of which you described in your two letters of demands, dated February 7 and February 16, and expanded on …

… ended in 1996, as well as how art addresses ongoing issues of violence and injustice. “I had been noticing that the … thesis into three themes: racism as the motivating force of the genocide; voice and visibility in the counter-narratives of art; and how artists use literal and symbolic traces of …

… Prison Industry Hampshire College amended the language of its institutional investment policy this month to include a list of specific examples of industries not favored for investing. These include …

… health, economics, and anthropology and forming the base of her Div III, the compilation of a community cookbook with recipes gathered primarily from members of the Puerto Rican community in Holyoke. It resulted in her …

… October 06, 2011 By Michael Samuels 09F The front page of the September 18 New York Times Book Review called Leah Hager Cohen 85F "one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected …

… Excellence in Ecological Education The Ecological Society of America presented its 2012 Eugene M. Odum Award to Hampshire College Professor of Ecology Charlene D'Avanzo on August 6. Professor D'Avanzo, … and mentoring. It was presented at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), held in Portland, …

… an Earl Ubell Grant to support his Division III project of writing a thesis examining the medical use of cannabis and its legalization in Massachusetts in 2012. … the Massachusetts law within the past, present, and future of cannabis prohibition and legalization," said Condron. …

… Phyllotaxis Dynamics The arrangement of leaves on a stem, wrapped tightly in intricate spiral … Hampshire Div III project, "Phyllotaxis dynamics: A study of transitions between plant patterns," Grecki worked with Smith College professor of mathematics Chris Golé in creating computer simulations …

… Matthews Sandra Matthews, associate professor emerita of film and photography, is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A.).  Her photographic work is …

… Petronio 74F Named 2015 Doris Duke Artist Petronio is one of twenty performing artists who will each receive $275,000 in funding as an investment in and celebration of their ongoing contributions to the fields of contemporary dance, theatre, and jazz.    Petronio’s dance …

… Lucy McFadden 70F (reprinted From the Summer 2016 issue of Hampshire's Non Satis Scire magazine) On July 3, 2005, … 83 million miles from Earth. The impactor, about the size of a washing machine and sheathed in copper, would hit the … spectral fingerprints, giving us clues to the nature of remote materials at the far edges of our solar system. …

… Grant Hampshire College is going to test the limits of regional sustainable agriculture by sourcing nearly 100 percent of food on campus locally, and a $50,000 grant from the Henry … collaborative networks with local farmers and a variety of community agricultural organizations like the Real Food …

… he was "just playing around," listening to a recording of Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire." Intrigued, … hall room and hung speaker wires weighted with 200 pounds of rocks toward the ground to see what sounds he could … over the next year and a half, culminating in the creation of a new—and very large—musical instrument and earning him a …