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Second HampHack Hackathon Invites Students Beyond Tech, Across Disciplines

… and invited students of art, design, and fabrication to partner with tech students at a 24-hour hackathon, they … for an even greater response, as registration is set to open this month for the second-annual, 24-hour, … A typical hackathon brings together tech-minded people to develop technology products and solutions, but HampHack …

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'Made In America' Views Prison Labor Through Contemporary Art Lens

… for labor, and incarcerated people reclaiming their labor to create art and literature, drive the exhibit Made in … New School in New York City, each of the 20 cities aims to explore local histories of and foster dialogue about mass … College Art Gallery Director Amy Halliday was invited to use the space to supplement the national exhibit and …

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Division III: A Study of Stream Temperatures

… temperature. After doing fieldwork and placing probes to monitor the stream's temperature, the next step was to analyze the data. Hofmeister developed a mathematical model to interpret how vegetation along the stream impacted its …

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Div II Profile: REJJIA CAMPHOR 16F

… OR PIVOTS DURING DIV II? Last semester, I submitted a play to the Five College Word Festival and was accepted to workshop it with other black and brown people of color. It … writing, cultural and women’s studies, and art. I want to develop my writing through creating longer works that can …

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Hampshire Plans for In-Person Academic Year 2021-22

… for In-Person Academic Year 2021-22 We are very pleased to share that we plan on welcoming all students back to campus and anticipate resuming a fully in-person student … year. Once again, we will welcome all students back to campus and anticipate being able to resume a fully …

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Hampshire College Farm Celebrates 25th Season of Community Supported Agriculture

… of their beds moments ago, but they’re listening closely to instructions from Nancy Hanson, the College’s CSA manager … first two decades, the Farm Center had been home primarily to faculty research projects, among them an esteemed breeding … It wasn’t until 1992 that the mission of the farm turned to the sustainable production of food. That fall, Lisa Walz …

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Hampshire a Top-40 College for Alums Earning a Doctorate, Federal Data Reveals

… #39 nationwide by percentage of graduates who advance to earn a doctorate, close on the list to Dartmouth, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Carnegie Mellon, and … receive written evaluations instead of grades. According to the most recent census from the National Science …

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Div III Profile: Anita Fuentes Gutierrez On Racism, Reality TV

… called Gypsy) sentiment. There are an estimated 750,000 to one million Roma in Spain. They first arrived in the early … money-obsessed consumerists. This stands in stark contrast to the dire conditions many Roma families are facing in the … midst of Spain’s economic crisis. They are twice as likely to be unemployed as other Spaniards and have a higher …

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Hampshire of Color Builds Community, Connections

… current students over the three-day event, it was a chance to look back at how Hampshire's multicultural community has … grown and thrived over the years, while also looking ahead to how to strengthen Hampshire's dedication to a fair education …

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Hampshire Students Participate in School of America Watch Vigil

… as more than three dozen students made the 20 hour trip to Fort Benning to protest the controversial Western Hemisphere Institute for … trip. Founded as the School of the Americas in the 1940s to provide military training for Latin American government …

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The Roos-Rohde House: A By-and-for Student Space

… September 2011, President Jonathan Lash invited students to examine ways they could repurpose and rebuild the barn … currently located at the President's house and relocate it to the Hampshire campus. For the past two years, the … both the Hampshire community and outside professionals to conceptualize and design a by-and-for student space. On …

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Josiah Mardell

… in the field of education his whole life, (largely due to the fact that it is the field of both his parents, both … Hill House in Providence as an AmeriCorps member for Ready to Learn Providence.  Josiah first came to the ELC as a summer substitute in the summer of 2015.  For …

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Upcoming Events at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center

… campus unless otherwise noted. All events are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. On Thursday, … College campus in South Hadley, the Center is pleased to present a reading by Saiya Miller and Liza Bley, editors … Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book . The collection aims to provide a new approach to the way we teach about …

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When Students Stop and Think About What They're Learning

… my sins, I’m president of a college that requires students to write reflective evaluations of their own work as they … analyzed our longstanding practice of requiring students to write self-evaluations, and found the benefits to be measurable and significant. Learners learn better if …

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

… a Buddhist monastic movement in Thailand that aims to reverse environmental degradation and unsustainable … monastic movement in Thailand that has drawn attention to the country's unsustainable economic development and … with the monks in the 1980s, and initially had planned to publish the book about their movement and the tree …

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Graphic Novel Merges Art and Psychology

… have trouble talking about the work, because it's supposed to be experienced visually," she says. The book has no words, leaving a certain amount of interpretation up to the reader. This ambiguity serves multiple purposes; … Cohen was concerned about preconceived notions. "I want to have as little stigma going in as possible, to not attach …

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Professor Roosbelinda Cárdenas Wins Woodrow Wilson Fellowship

… the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, funding that’s enabled her to take leave this semester and work on her current book … logging, and agro-industry,” says Cárdenas, who came to Hampshire in 2014, after a postdoc at Rutgers Center for … Ethnicity. “They’d fought for and collectively won titles to their own land, the black territories, from the …

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Women Welders

… College, she had no idea it would shape her future to such a large degree. Four years later, the Manchester, … fell in love with it," she said. "It was a whole new way to get my creative energy out. I felt empowered." Throughout college, Kenney continued to work in the Dorothy and Jerome Lemelson Center for Design …

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Architecture Memories, Havana Interiors

… Hampshire photography professor Jacqueline Hayden to Cuba, where they completed the first systematic visual … Havana in the city's history, an archive they presented to the Office of the Historian. Wadsworth found the vivid … colors and textures so appealing that she wanted more time to photograph them. She also found herself wanting to know …

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Holding Hands with Ilse

… of Hampshire's Non Satis Scire magazine) During a visit to Poland in 2009 — I had been invited to give a retrospective of my films at the WRO Art Center in … family’s 1950 relocation from Eastern Europe. The decision to leave had to have been difficult for my parents. They were …

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Statement on Investment Policy and Fossil Fuel and Private Prison Industries

… and Governance (ESG)-oriented investing, which dates back to the college’s early days. As an example, Hampshire was the first college to divest from South Africa. Hampshire’s Investment Policy … is grounded in ESG principles, and requires the college to favor investments that do right by the environment, …

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'Beet' Poetry

… fits in nicely with Teitel's and Subrizi's approach to poetry. They want reactions, whether it's from readers … or otherwise, on their recent spoken word tour. They want to make their presence known, and if they have to do weird things to people's metabolisms to achieve the …

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Div III Profile- Grusha Prasad on the Cognition of "They"

… the pronoun they when it expects he or she — has helped to earn her a place in the prestigious cognitive science PhD … neuroscience technology in Hampshire’s brain-imaging lab to study how people process they as a singular pronoun. They is increasingly used to allow individuals to move beyond traditional gender …

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Soliloquy’s Garden

… animals. The space also includes a pathway, and a bench to encourage visitors to linger. "I want people to consider the lives of the utilitarian objects we use on a …

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Div II Profile: CONNIE CHANG 15F

… OR PIVOTS DURING DIV II? Absolutely. I thought I wanted to write a fantasy novel. Then I thought I wanted to write “literary” short stories. Then I thought I wanted to write fantasy novels again, but for young adults this …

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