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Kay Johnson
… of CSI, expressed the feelings of many on campus, writing to school colleagues yesterday of Kay’s “strong will and deep commitment to Hampshire, CSI, her friends, colleagues, and students,” … opportunities for herself and fellow faculty and students to lead environmental and agricultural field research in …
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Professor Ryan Joo's Book Tops South Korean Bestseller List
… Professor Joo's Twitter site. The essays encourage people to make an effort to notice the world around them, to find time for friends and family, and to simply ease their …
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Students and Athletic Staff Launch Hampshire Track and Trail Team as New Spring Sport
… program, and also enables winter and spring athletes to remain active and in training. On the roster this spring … who did track in high school and some who are brand new to the sport and just learning,” says Nazar. “For me, this is an impressive first year, and we really want to be thoughtful about how we build the team.” Nazar says he …
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Jerome Liebling: Brooklyn and Other Boroughs, 1946-1996
… June 6. The opening reception is Friday, April 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. Liebling was among the founding professors of … 1942, Liebling quit his first semester at Brooklyn College to enlist in World War II, serving in the notoriously deadly … The carnage he witnessed fueled his creative impulse to “figure out where the pain was..." Liebling returned to …
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Study of Acceptance of Evolution Among Muslim Physicians
… led by Hampshire College professor Salman Hameed hopes to contribute to greater understanding of how the Muslim world views … is sometimes perceived as controversial. We're trying to use how physicians and medical students think about …
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Putting More In, Getting More Out
… Nathan Holiday 09F had a list of interests he wanted to pursue: math, physics, religion, philosophy, and art. He says it wasn't until he got to Hampshire that the students actually paid attention to his full list—instead of cutting him off somewhere near …
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Professor Annie Rogers on Language and Art by Patients in Psychosis
… accounts of the experience. On April 27, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Rogers will present slides of art from within … the Kern Center, Room 108. The presentation, free and open to the public, will be followed by a discussion. Rogers … patterns and art are often united attempts by patients to make sense of their disjointed internal narrative. “In …
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A Div III that Includes Up-close Exploration of Shark Conservation
… changing for everyone on earth. And a lot of it comes down to what happens with the oceans." For his Hampshire College … ? footage that Fogel is himself shooting. In order to enter a shark tank to film, he was required to have advanced training in rescue …
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Five Colleges Signs Purchase and Sale Agreement for Library Annex Land
… Land The Five College consortium has signed an agreement to purchase 46 acres of land in Hadley, Massachusetts, as the … Library Annex that will provide shelving to supplement the capacities of the on-campus libraries. Most … pursuing approval for a shelving facility that might grow to 150,000 square feet—a size that is not expected to be …
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Phyllotaxis Dynamics
… "Over the last 100 or so years people have been trying to understand this, looking at the spacing and patterns … formulated some rules about it, and biologists are trying to understand the physiological basis that's responsible for … things that happen, how patterns transition from one to another, and why certain patterns are more predominant …
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Alumni Profile: Its Hampshire. You cant just do one thing.
… organization that recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities for two years. Following her two-year commitment, she intends to pursue a joint degree in public health and law. She is … know any English, or some people that do know it but need to work on the mechanics of the language. It's my job to help …
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Division III Profile: Katie Kramer Finds 'Connections'
… her years at Hampshire, Katie Kramer knew she wanted to combine music and community engagement in her Division III capstone project. To that end, she designed and facilitated a curriculum in … means of self expression," she says. The opportunity to learn art is "a good way to level out the playing field …
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New Faculty Q&A with Jennifer Bajorek
… Lawson Hampshire fourth-year student Emily Lawson gets to know one of the College’s newly appointed faculty members, … That comes from my research in Cotonou, Benin. You have to ride a motorcycle, and you have to wear high heels. I can even get off a moving motorcycle in …
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Students Win Top Design Prize at National Conference
… living building – the R.W. Kern Center – to teach first-year students the foundations of modern … using the most advanced green-building standard to supply its own electricity and water and treat its own … the first semester of the course was the study of wetlands to treat gray water. During the second semester, the students …
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'Shift' - An Animated Film
… Color values move fluidly from the subtle and minimalist to vibrant and sharp, creating the contrast essential to the underlying message of inevitable change over time. The … but only within the context of inevitable cycles. To make Shift, Marvel blended two very different approaches …
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Artist Residency Celebrates Freedom and Creativity in Music
… sat with their instruments in a circle, and were asked to play sounds they had never played before. “What if you did that every day and you tried to find the other side of your sound?” asked Nicole Mitchell, … November 29th. “With improvisation, you have the freedom to make any sound. You don’t have to be correct, you don’t …
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Artist and Hampshire Alum Leidy Churchman 98F’s Paintings are Absorbing Meditations of Consciousness
… which can vary from diminutive one-foot-tall canvases to pieces spanning more than eight feet, to their expansive choice of subject matter, ranging from reclining granite Buddhas to internet images of a highrise’s elite skyline view, …
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Cognitive Science
… Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of the mind, the brain, and computing … Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the study of the mind, the brain, and computing … Children and Adolescents Fragile X Syndrome: from Neuron to Cognition Sample First-Year Course Telling Our Stories: …
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What Do Blue Jays Say?
… out into the fields and woods surrounding the college to record the range of sounds the birds make when they first … theses," Faegre said. "I compared what I had recorded to what they observed. I tried to make some correlations with behavior, as in, this call was …
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Kent State, One Generation Removed
… monuments. We are all, for that matter, monuments to our own lives and the era in which our lives occur. Michel … D.C., monuments and memorials, so omnipresent in her day-to-day life that they became almost invisible to her. Another national marker also lingered over her …
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Div III Profile: Hampshire’s Phuong Leverages Five Colleges for Advanced Engineering Studies
… Nguyen Hoang’s Division III thesis has the potential to stretch from here to the moon with her research focused on superconducting … with little power. “It’s challenging for scientists to minimize the required energy to transfer data,” she says. …
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Student Presents Original Research of 16th Century Maya at American Chemical Society Symposium
… year, Hannah Huggins used Hampshire’s mass spectrometer to study ancient Mayan teeth and try to assess the degree to which the Spanish who invaded their region in the 16th …
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Alumni Profile: South Hadley Mandolin Orchestra Founder Adam Sweet 80F
… age of four, when he started violin lessons. He continued to pursue music as a student at Hampshire College, and also … it is "a very visual instrument" and easy for beginners to learn. Although he has done some composing, Sweet mainly … from the Berklee College of Music, who wanted Sweet to co-produce a concert of classic mandolin music. …
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Division III: Building the Nonprofit Restaurant
… 09F literally went around the world on a field-study to learn about ethnic and fusion foods. Then, through the … University of Massachusetts Amherst. She knew she wanted to keep working with food, but there was a problem: she says … restaurant industry "less than appealing." So she decided to help change it. The inspiration for Fisher's Division III …
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Div III Profile: Will Meyer Examines the Future of Journalism
… in January, but his Division III (senior) project is, to his eyes, still a work in progress. “I think I could go in … media outlets have in American society. Meyer says he came to Hampshire intending to study music, until he began taking Critical Science …
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