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Jeff Sharlet 90F

… 90F Jeff Sharlet 90F Journalist Jeff Sharlet received the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2015. Among his books are C Street and The Family Jeff Sharlet is the author of  Sweet Heaven When I Die  and  The Family , and …

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‘Sharing Our Journey’ Gallery Exhibit February 6-24

… Hampshire College Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni The Hampshire College Art Gallery welcomed the public to the exhibit “Sharing Our Journey: Women of Color Engaging Our …

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Video of Commencement Keynote Address by Laverne Cox

… producer, and transgender advocate Laverne Cox delivered the keynote speech at the 2014 commencement ceremony at Hampshire College. Cox, who can currently be seen in the critically acclaimed Netflix original series Orange is …

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A 'Very Hampshire Approach' to Academics and Athletics

… offers to play NCAA soccer and basketball in favor of the intellectual challenge she knew Hampshire would bring. … feel I was going to be as engaged with my academics, the most important thing for me," she explains. Four years … examining changes in her home city of Detroit through the lens of conflict and conflict resolution, with a focus on …

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Leah Hager Cohen 85F: Finding a Story to Tell

… to Tell Posted: 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 …

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Professors Receive Grants and Fellowships for Summer Research

… and fellowships for their research. Awards came from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis … University, and Project Pericles. These awards will aid the professors in creating cutting-edge content for their …

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Science Internship Gala

… Gala Some science students remained at Hampshire through the summer and worked with their professors on research that … Neural Science, Harvard Medical School, laboratories at the University of Massachusetts, Hartford Hospital's … cardiology department, Beth Israel Hospital, and the medical office of a general practitioner. These science …

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For Hampshire Alum Allie Thorpe, a “Cathartic” Div III Leads to a Fulfilling Career Path

… transferred to Hampshire College in 2010 after leaving the military and concentrated on LGBTQ+ history and web … stories of service members who were also part of the LGBTQ+ community, and, like herself, had been discharged under the military's former "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. …

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Neil Stillings Scholarship Fund Created for Cognitive Science Students

… Professor of Psychology Neil Stillings, cofounder of the first undergraduate cognitive science program in the nation, to support the work of outstanding students in the field.  Trustee Judy …

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Lili M. Kim

… Unlikely Enemy: Korean Americans, World War II, and the Transnational Struggle for Justice on the Homefront , investigates how Korean Americans negotiated the racial terrains of the homefront that witnessed mass …

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Alum Makes $2 Million Donation, Second Seven-Figure Contribution This Month

… million to partner with Paula H. and James S. Crown 71F on the Crown Founders Challenge, which aims to raise significant support from the College’s first five entering classes, 1970–1975, in honor of Hampshire’s 50th Anniversary year. Change in the Making: A Campaign for Hampshire has raised $22,538,810 …

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Hampshire Alum Heather Boushey 88F Serves as Key Member of Biden Economic Team

… of Economic Advisers (CEA), a group tasked with advising the president on economic policy. Boushey joined the CEA at the beginning of Biden’s term in January 2021. Boushey is …

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Kim Lee Ripley 90F

… nearly 20 years, including at Nonotuck Community School, the Skinner Lab School at the University of Massachusetts, and, for the past 13 years, at the Early Learning Center.

 Kim has …

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Bernstein's Theory to be Tested on Space Station

… physics professor Herbert Bernstein will be tested on the International Space Station. Theoretical physicist Bernstein devised the SuperDense scheme more than a decade ago in his … investigators, led by physics professor Paul Kwiat at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which has …

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Statement Against Anti-Asian Violence

… six of Asian descent, in a series of attacks that targeted the Asian American community. In the last year, there has been a dramatic increase in violent attacks against Asian Americans across the United States. COVID-19 related anti-Asian racism has …

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Hampshire Successfully Implements Campus COVID-19 Testing Program

… Campus COVID-19 Testing Program Anne Pinkerton 91F During the fall semester, Hampshire repurposed the Robert Crown Center as a testing center for asymptomatic … on campus in close proximity with others participated in the testing program. The College also provided symptomatic …

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Designing DNA

… choosing. In 2009, scientists took DNA nanotechnology to the next level: they figured out how to make nature's … structures. For Div III, Bruss, who did an internship in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, built on this …

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Computer Collaboration

… Collaboration Getting computers to work together is the goal of Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin's (04F) final Hampshire … allow multiple computers to handle complex tasks together. The project involves the principle of distributed processing. "The basic idea …

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Concerns for Women's Health

… Concerns for Women's Health 'The Epidemiology and Political Economy of Cervical Cancer in El Salvador'   Within the next two minutes a woman will die of cervical cancer. One … them in developing countries, with Central America among the highest in frequency. Most are preventable deaths. In its …

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First-Year Students Dorm by Shared Interest in Living and Learning Communities

… students with a shared academic interest dorm together on the same floor for a year? One of Hampshire’s programs on intentional living, the Living and Learning Community (LLC), has been offering first-year students this residence option for the past three years. A Living and Learning Community …

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Setbacks, Outtakes, and a Little Gem of Hampshire-ness

… Outtakes, and a Little Gem of Hampshire-ness This is the first in a series of conversations between faculty … one who has decades of experience at Hampshire and the other fairly new to the College. Becky Nordstrom and Deborah Goffe spoke together …

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Nathan Kensinger Finds Beauty in Forgotten Spaces

… Currently based in Brooklyn, Kensinger has been exploring the fringes of New York City since 2000. He has explored … forgotten spaces and off-limit landscapes, and uncovers the beauty and untold stories within them. Many of the places Kensinger photographs are slated for destruction, …

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Friends Since Day One, Alums Collaborate on Exhibition "To Have and To Owe"

… La Berge earned a Ph.D. in American studies. In 2011, the two Hampshire alums began work on a collaborative … and representations of economics. Ptak suggested pursuing the idea of debt, inspired by how other artists had been addressing economic issues during the financial crisis. La Berge was intrigued by the idea. "So …

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New Safety and Security Office Seeks Campus Input on Community-Based Model

… who will practice a community security model to replace the former policing model. Starting this week, all students, … with and share ideas with new staff members who will lead the new Safety and Security Department: Chuck Furgal, … They said they look forward to meeting everyone at the open forums on Wednesday December 5, Wednesday December …

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Photographic Storytelling and Adapting to Change

… and Adapting to Change Anne Pinkerton 91F Early in the 2020 spring semester, Emma Symanski 17F was excitedly studying the intersection of photography and language. An avid Spanish … involve presenting their stories in a gallery show. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and no one could safely gather for …

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