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Nov. 22: Screening of 'Our Nixon'

… Hampshire College will host a screening of Penny Lane and Brian L. Frye's film Our Nixon at Hampshire College on … same location as part of the Tashmoo Lecture Series . Lane and Frye are former Hampshire film and media studies professors and the film's origins trace …

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Hampshire to Host New England Latino Student Leadership Conference

… Latino Student Leadership Conference (NELSLC) on Friday and Saturday, April 1-2. This event is facilitated and supported by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and organized by Raíces, Hampshire's pan-Latinx student …

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Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F Interviewed on PBS NewsHour Regarding Black Patients’ Struggle for Equal Access

… Struggle for Equal Access Amy Diehl Physician, scholar, and activist Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble 70F was … around the medical field’s long history of discrimination and abuse against Black patients and how these issues became magnified during the pandemic. …

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Tara Bynum to Publish 'Reading Pleasures'

… Bynum , assistant professor of African American literature and culture. “When you read the writings of African Americans in the eighteenth century, during and just after the Revolutionary era, their sermons, letters, and narratives, written to and for each other, communicate …

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Hampshire’s Community Orientation Day Focuses on Reaffirming Commitment to Anti-Racism

… 31, which kicked off the fall semester, students, faculty, and staff came together for a panel discussion, “Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution: Knowledge, Action, and Commitment.” The session reaffirmed the College’s … commitment to becoming an anti-racist institution and exploring restorative practices. The event, held via …

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Hampshire is Sixth on Forbes' List of Most Entrepreneurial Colleges

… established the student Seed Fund for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. The $1 million gift provides funding toward investment in innovative projects and businesses started by current students and recent graduates. Students make all decisions about which …

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Students Tell Stories of Internships

… of Internships   List of summer internships by agencies and sponsoring campus organizations Whether they spent the … peace initiatives in Israel, researching how religion and culture impact the environment in India, working on a … the Five College consortium, Holyoke Community College, and Greenfield Community College. The evening was presented …

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President’s Invite to Invent Hampshire’s Future

… Invite to Invent Hampshire’s Future Dear Staff, Students, and Faculty, I invite us all to work together this fall to … Hampshire opened, the College’s staff, students, faculty, and Board embraced a radical mission: to utterly reimagine … of liberal education for the times in which they lived, and make that vision happen. They celebrated the exuberant …

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President's Letter on Proposed Student Experience Models

… a bold vision for the future of our student experience and reestablish Hampshire as the leading innovator in higher … in our community have contributed to this work, on and off campus. I’m excited to report we are on schedule this month to announce our new vision and model, which we’ll develop throughout this academic year …

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How a Personalized Curriculum Drove Successful Entrepreneurship

… she expressed interest in focusing on both engineering and management during her college search.  “They were telling … the University of Massachusetts Amherst, one on leadership and organizational behavior and the second about the business applications of Python, a …

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Hampshire's 50th Anniversary Celebration: October 15-17

… know." Now, as we celebrate Hampshire's 50th anniversary and the power of our mission, the spirit of these words is as … alive as ever. Alums, students, faculty, staff, families, and friends of the College are invited to join us on campus … ever. It will be a weekend to connect, learn, party, and look ahead to the next 50 years. Meet President Ed …

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Betsy Hartmann

… studies, received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Her research, writing, and lecturing focus on the intersections between population, migration, environment, and security issues. During her time at Hampshire, she served …

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Stephen Dillon Publishes 'Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State'

… Professor of Queer Studies Stephen Dillon examines texts and other works by, as he puts it, “countless feminist, queer, and antiracist activists” of the early 1970s. This largely forgotten group left their homes, families, and friends to fight against racism and imperialism in a time …

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Hampshire Library Extends Five College Partnerships

… the libraries of the Five Colleges continues to strengthen and expand for the benefit of students, employees, and the public. Three of the colleges joined to launch an online archive this summer, and all of the libraries — representing Amherst, Hampshire, …

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Is Hampshire College Closed? Nope. No Way. Not By a Long Shot.

… a bumpy 2019, but Hampshire College was designed to change and respond to the challenges facing humanity, and we’ve been reinventing ourselves all along. We continue … has always been to radically reimagine the liberal arts and serve as the agent of change in higher education. And, in …

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Jesse Natha Vendituoli 98F

… Burlington, VT. She began her writing career researching and publishing articles, magazine features, and essays about food and culinary history while at Boston University’s gastronomy …

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Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair for Betsy Hartmann

… be research on current population policies, practices, and ideologies in India and the efforts of non-state actors – social movements, engaged scholars, NGOs and the media – to challenge and transform them. Hartmann …

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Laura Sizer

… a B.A. in philosophy from Boston University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of … in 2000. She specializes in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology/cognitive science. Her research currently focuses on affect (emotions and moods), but she is also interested in questions about …

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CLPP Conference Celebrates 35 Years of Mobilizing for Reproductive Freedom

… two hundred eighty-eight restrictions have passed and more are considered daily. It’s clear that access to … justice a reality? More than 1,000 students, activists, and community members will work to answer that question at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) Program’s 35th-anniversary …

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Streaming Knowledge

… of teaching at Hampshire.  “I graduated in January 1978 and stayed on to teach a class,” says Grimm. “I really liked … she is now the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology and an internationally renowned expert on urban ecology and sustainability. She studies the interaction of climate …

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Int'l Science Journal Publishes Student's Bee Immunity Research

… of research conducted by Hampshire alum Olivia Masi Biller and her collaborators, when she was a student here, research … In the introduction to her journal article, Biller and her coauthors explain that the chemistry of a plant’s nectar may attract and reward pollinators—such as bees—with compounds that …

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Div III Profile: Humphrey-Blanco Studies Genocide in Modern Guatemalan Art

… as my work is about art, it’s truly about social change and how both disciplines are more powerful when joined … Humphrey-Blanco. For his Division III project, “Genocide and Violence in Guatemalan Contemporary Art,” Humphrey-Blanco … as well as how art addresses ongoing issues of violence and injustice. “I had been noticing that the civil war and

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Dean Couperus Creating National Model for Teaching Brain Imaging

… Jane Couperus, dean of the School of Cognitive Science and associate professor of developmental cognitive … Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program to Couperus and two colleagues, lead researcher Cindy Bukach, at the University of Richmond, and co-primary investigator Cathy Reed, from Claremont …

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NYC Latina Activist to Speak at Hampshire

… Hampshire College, along with Holyoke Community College and Smith College, will host a visit by leading community … career as an attorney, filmmaker, author, educator, and community organizer. As a teenage activist in New York … needs of the working-class Puerto Rican community and the decolonization of Puerto Rico. On Wednesday, March …

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Div III Profile: Sean Seid's Interpretations of Colonial American Music

… existence of the musicians. The notion of authenticity and and who defines it when playing centuries-old music forms the … of presenting history packaged as a commercial product, and how cultural tourism determines in part what is performed …

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