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Rebecca Holland 77F

… Rebecca Holland 77F Brooklyn, New York Rebecca Holland is the assistant vice president for global standards and … in social and political history, she earned a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. … began her legal career as a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York City, working in the

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Giving Voice to Identity

… through six at Hampshire, was a comprehensive study of the lives of the indigenous peoples of New England. Similar studies have … student from southern Arizona, brought a personal twist to the work. "I specifically looked at the science of …

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Earl Ubell Grant Awarded to SarahMay Harel 11S

… academic projects. Harel is interested in the new field of "positive psychology," the science of happiness. She has designed a Stress Less! … psychology techniques for a happier and healthier life in the Hampshire College community. Specifically, of their …

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A Year of Events Celebrating 50 Years

… for Hampshire College — its 50th anniversary. Sadly, for the safety and well-being of our students and guests, we had to postpone the in-person portion of our celebration to October 15–17, 2021, but we’ve been honoring the impact Hampshire continues to have on the world through a …

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Hampshire Alumna Kate Browne 78F Builds Community Art

… a 26-foot x 10-foot cocoon with a small-town community in the Mississippi Delta. The cocoon is part of a larger collaborative arts project … its community and is connected to every other in the continuum of Browne's project.   So far, three have been …

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Jamie Citron 01F Named to Biden-Harris Administration

… Jamie Citron 01F was recently named a special assistant to the president for presidential personnel for the Biden-Harris administration. Citron is a former Obama … member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama Foundation. Citron began his career in politics …

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Taj Musco 99F on Shortlist for Louis Vuitton Journeys Award

… Award Hampshire graduate Taj Musco 99F recently made the shortlist for the Louis Vuitton Journeys Awards. The Journeys Awards, established three years ago, promote …

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School of Critical Social Inquiry Division III Presentations

… Studies of Iran and Lebanon Samantha Valente Rethinking the "Doldrum Years:" The Fight for Gender Reform Through the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America …

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Photograph Inspires Ravett's Latest Film Project

… for his newest film project, Holding Hands with Ilsa. The photograph, taken in a meadow near his hometown of Walbrzych in Poland in 1950, captures Ravett at the age of three with his teenaged babysitter Ilsa. Ravett … Israel (before settling in Brooklyn in 1955) shortly after the photograph was taken, and he never saw or heard from Ilsa …

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Hampshire Art Professor Nominated for "World's Largest Children's Literature Award"

… silhouettes, sculptures, and embroideries, surrounding the tools of her craft: brushes, paint, cloth, clay, … materials. “I try to model different ways artists work in the real world, and create a sustainable practice where one … I have such a wide-ranging practice, my students can see the many different ways one can practice art.” Dezsö was …

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Evolutionary Robotics

… of designing robots one day. Hampshire College gave him the chance to actually build one.  "When I was looking at colleges, I saw that Hampshire was one of the only schools with an artificial intelligence program … at Hampshire on artificial intelligence (AI).  With the support of computer science professors Lee Spector at …

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Jacqueline Hayden

… Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for her photographs of … been shown in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Alternative Museum in N.Y.C., Aldrich Museum of …

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

… of graduates who advance to earn a doctorate, close on the list to Dartmouth, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia. The result is notable from a college whose students design … written evaluations instead of grades. According to the most recent census from the National Science Foundation’s …

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019

… intellectual exercise and active inquiry. This remains the heart of Hampshire's program, as Franklin Patterson and Chuck Longsworth wrote in The Making of a College . Five decades later, we see the results of active inquiry every day in the lives of our …

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An Alternative Microcredit Model

… of anthropology at Hampshire College and chair of the Five College Buddhist studies certificate program, said … senior project: "Kasia's Division III really exemplifies the very best student work at Hampshire. She designed, raised the funds for, and implemented a microcredit program, …

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Div III Profile: Isaiah Mann, GlowLime Games, and Defender's Light

… with an extensive business model and pitch documents means the organization will continue to provide an outlet for … a sustained operation that would thrive long after he left the College. “The goal of GlowLime,” Mann says, “has always been to promote …

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William Brayton

… emeritus of art, received his B.A. in studio art from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In addition to founding the sculpture program at Hampshire in 1988, he has taught visual art at the University of New Hampshire, and the Chautauqua School of …

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Jan. 22-Feb. 28: Barbara Norfleet Photography Exhibition

… of new work by photographer Barbara Norfleet, DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol , will be in the Jerome Liebling Center at Hampshire College from January … gatherings, reimagined through collage as a meditation on the subject of alcohol. Norfleet is the founder and director …

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Aaron Fagan 94S

… at Hampshire College and Syracuse University. He is the author of the poetry collections Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007), Echo … Publishing, 2010), and A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020). His writing has appeared in American …

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Hampshire College Held Free On-Campus Vaccine Clinics

… held its first no-cost COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Robert Crown Center, open to all enrolled students and … May 16, just after Commencement, so that participants from the first clinic, as well as those who had received a first dose of Pfizer vaccine elsewhere within the appropriate time window for efficacy, could receive their …

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Alum Brings Thai Labor Leader to Hampshire

… Liberties and Public Policy program . Cotshadet came to the United States this October through the State Department's International Visitor Leadership … Program (IVLP). Melcher, who is Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts , …

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Professor Ethan Meyers and UMass Colleagues Win National Science Foundation Grant to Study Brain Function

… was recently awarded a four-year, $953,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a nationwide … for new insights into neural and cognitive systems. The research aims to develop new methods with potential … neuromotor control, such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. The five-member team, which includes four researchers at …

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An Alum from Hampshire's First Class, Luis Hernandez Pays It Forward

… Hernandez Pays It Forward Abigail Meisel Anonymity marked the start of Luis Hernandez’s relationship with Hampshire, but today he’s one of the school’s staunchest champions and vice chair of the board of trustees. His education funded by scholarships …

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Fourth-Annual ENGAGE! Conference Addressed Dismantling Violence

… participate in interactive community education activities. The event doubled as Hampshire’s second day of Community Education, part of the new academic curriculum ; the first was held on September 17 . Sponsored by the Office …

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Cassidy Rappaport 12F Wins Charley Richardson Award

… first incoming class in 1970, died in May 2013. The award was established by his classmates, friends, and … family to honor his dedication to organizing and building the collective voice and power of workers and their unions as … and others most impacted by war.   Rappaport will use the $2,100 award to intern with the Pan-African Association …

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