… infection that can result in meningitis — swelling of the covering of the brain and spinal cord — and bloodstream infection. Because the disease can be so serious, UMass Health Services has …

… archiving, and bringing a certain kind of life" to the images and sounds he records. It's a link that ties together the disparate musical styles featured in three of his most … first heard Devashish Dey at a performance held during the singer's time as a visiting professor of music at Smith …

… Nyong'o (00F) learned that flowers grown in Kenya for the European market come at a very high price: the systematic sexual harassment of poor women, who comprise the majority of workers in the industry. Nyong'o, a recent …

… of film, video and Africana studies, has been awarded the Princess Grace Foundation-USA’s 2014 Undergraduate Film … undergraduate student working in film. Waite plans to use the Princess Grace Foundation scholarship money to shoot her … College Division III film in Los Angeles this fall. The film will concentrate on a fictional portrayal of the …

… Jamie Matheson 11F, and Amit Ringel 08F—won first prize in the inaugural Health Literacy Hackathon . The Hackathon, held October 13 and 14 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was sponsored by …

… Hampshire College Community, At its meeting last month, the Board of Trustees voted to “resolve to admit a class for fall 2020 and proceed with the steps necessary to do so successfully.” People have asked, why is the Board confident they can enroll a new class next fall …

… Jonathan Lash, President of Hampshire College Today, as the world mourns the loss of Nelson Mandela, his legacy of combining resistance and strength in the face of oppression with courageous insistence on …

… Week Event at Hampshire College Hampshire College invites the public to Climate Change and Human Survival , a panel … of Peace and World Security Studies Michael Klare. The event is Wednesday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Franklin … Main Lecture Hall and all are welcome; admission is free. The panel will discuss implications of the Report of Working …

… College today announced that all students returning for the fall 2021 semester will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This supports the College’s plan to return to an in-person, fully … residential, personalized, and safe college experience for the fall semester. Requests for exceptions for medical or …

… Yesterday, a violent mob incited by Donald Trump assaulted the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the legitimate outcome of the election. Trump directing his followers to storm the …

… Lords Party A new exhibit on campus brings new focus to the work of two of the most important grassroots political organizations in US history, the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party. The …

… professor emeritus of communications, holds a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Miller's teaching … have mainly concerned new media and political culture. The latter includes work on the subjectivity of citizenship, …

… Professors Polina Barskova and Herbert Bernstein are the 2015 winners of the Gruber Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Advising. Each winner receives $10,000 and, in the year following receipt of the award, either gives a …

… has proven interesting to NASA and others pushing the boundaries of the field of quantum physics. "It sounds very jazzy, but … said Professor Bernstein. "What it does is send the complete quantum state from a single particle that comes …

… computer science, holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in philosophy from … His main interests are artificial intelligence and the connections between cognition, computation, and evolution. He is also interested in the use of technology in music and other arts. His recent …

… a sustainable future. In advancing this important work, the Board has deliberated and voted on three important … issues: This afternoon, at its winter meeting in Amherst, the Board first voted not to delay their decision regarding admitting a fall class. Second, the Board authorized the College to admit two distinct …

… be traced to a unique source: Since he was ten years old, the Virginia native has worked as a musician at Colonial … balladeer into his ethnographic study, which covers the history of the program at Williamsburg as well as the details of the …

… at Hampshire, Alyssa Coffey 17F has been involved with the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), an organization that … society. In our country, which IFYC rightly identifies as the most religiously diverse it’s ever been, the group partners with colleges and universities to engender …

… Scholars Program has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. The grant was given in honor of Gregory S. Prince, Jr., a … of Hampshire College, who was instrumental in developing the program, envisioning the James Baldwin Scholars as a …

… 10F has been awarded an Earl Ubell Grant. Named to honor the memory of Earl Ubell, whose distinguished career has influenced generations of science writers, the grant program recognizes and supports exceptional student work that seeks to make the scientific method or scientific findings accessible to …

… and alums who would like to shape policy affecting the environment, agriculture, or energy, take note. Hampshire … Vermont Law School (VLS), consistently ranked as one of the country’s top programs in environmental law. Scholarship … earning her JD at Northeastern. She is now a clerk to the legislative council in the Vermont State House, where …

… but last semester she began putting her familiarity with the language to use on a new challenge. Working primarily with the community group Holyoke Organized to Protect the Environment (HOPE), Finkelstein was one of several Five …

… her plan was to study German. She wanted to master the language, with the goal of one day teaching it to others as a second language. All that changed, however, when the directors of a local language school came to teach a …

… alumnus Roger Sherman 73S when he's looking for an intern. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, and cofounder … Films, values technical skill and a good resume, but the intangibles are often even more important. That's why he decided to take a chance with Anna Jacobson 05F. The two met at Jacobson's Hampshire graduation in 2009. "She …

… Photographs and Notebooks Celebrates Robert Seydel The exhibition will open Wednesday, August 28, with a … more than 20 large series of works. His most famous is the posthumously published The Book of Ruth (Siglio Press, 2011), featured in the …