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Student Research on the Hampshire College Farm: Raising Pigs Outdoors in Natural Settings
… outdoor settings; she's researching the nutritional and animal-welfare benefits of a pasture versus a woodlot. … Old Spots has also been a hands-on lesson in pig breeding and the business of livestock farming. Nugent began her studies of swine physiology and nutrition by working on the Hampshire College Farm, which …
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Getting Off the Grid Through the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative
… roof will be the primary means of generating that energy, and the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative began … the Tern Foundation’s Tern SOLAR Challenge Grant Program and a $58,000 gift from an anonymous donor, the goal of the … is paving a path toward innovation, transformation, and social responsibility. The Kern Center promises to serve …
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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery
… photographs were taken during Freedberg’s travels in Italy and India. The exhibit is one of two running simultaneously … Model Gallery, the other is a show of large-scale black and white photographs by Anna Collette entitled "Gathering … graduated from Hampshire in 1985 with a BA in photography and received her MFA in photography from the School of the …
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Hampshire Oral History: Ken Rosenthal Remembers The Founding Years
… History Collection , in the Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections . AM: Ken, how did you first became … was big news, in the New York Times [in August 1965], and I read about it one morning sitting in a law office in Newark, New Jersey. I was a graduate of Amherst College and I’d worked for the College the year previously, for Chuck …
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'Quidditch' as Artificial Intelligence Experiment
… version of the rapid-fire game played by young witches and warlocks in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. … terms, teams learn what behavior is desirable by surviving and their desirable traits get passed along in the … In Crawford-Marks' project, titled "Virtual Witches and Warlocks: Computational Evolution of Teamwork and …
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Nathan Kensinger Finds Beauty in Forgotten Spaces
… in Forgotten Spaces Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F Abandoned and ruined areas have always fascinated photographer and documentary filmmaker Nathan Kensinger 97F . Currently … airports, hospitals, schools, factories, boat graveyards, and landfills. In his work, Kensinger exposes forgotten …
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Immigration, Incarceration, State Power: 20th-Annual Eqbal Ahmad Symposium Slated for November
… of the Eqbal Ahmad Symposium with activist panels and lectures on the topics of immigration, incarceration, and state power. The events are free and open to the public. On Thursday, November 9, at 4 p.m. in …
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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections
… can share their online collections with each other and the world. The current shared collections database at Five Colleges was developed more than 20 years ago, and this commitment to a consortial database has enriched collaboration across the Five Colleges and opened up discovery and access to museum collections for …
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Jesse Steinmetz Named Poet Laureate by Hometown
… Of far more significance to the Hampshire College student and Washington, CT, poet laureate is how he might help … poetry camp. “I was definitely more excited about reading and writing than in learning multiplication tables or anything science related, and my mom recognized that,” Steinmetz says. “My family is …
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From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection
… up to see what random bit of information might take hold and weave itself into the text. For as long as she can … just as essential. "I'm really opposed to letter grading and testing. I wanted to go to college, but I couldn't stand … College's academic approach would give both the freedom and support to develop as an author. When she took a class …
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Jan. 22-Feb. 28: Barbara Norfleet Photography Exhibition
… by photographer Barbara Norfleet, DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol , will be in the Jerome Liebling Center … on the subject of alcohol. Norfleet is the founder and director of the Harvard Photography Collection, and has been a pioneering artist and thinker in photography …
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Hampshire Alum Asher Edes 03F Awarded Grant for Jewish Community-Building Project
… of 2021. Shmita Hives is a year-long art-, play-, and discussion-based curriculum for adults designed by Edes and artist and farmer Alexander Vickery. The project takes its name from …
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Notable Alumni
Aaron Lansky 73F
… Lansky 73F Aaron Lansky 73F Aaron Lansky is the founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center and author of the Massachusetts Book Award–winning Outwitting … Jews who could not read the language of their parents and grandparents. So he took what he expected would be a …
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Sept. 3: Convocation
… , a grassroots organization that promotes human, economic, and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts, through projects relating to food, agriculture, and the environment. Other scheduled speakers include … President Jonathan Lash, Dean of Students Byron McCrae, and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty …
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Tobin Porter-Brown 05F Helps Grow a New Farm
… 05F . "I figured I was going to have to move far away, and that it was going to take a long time." Hampshire's Farm … Center was a grounding force, providing both nourishment and inspiration, to my academic study. I worked with both the livestock and CSA operations and received a lot of valuable skills and …
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Donna Cohn
… from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and a master's in industrial design from the Rhode Island … the Boston Center for Independent Living as a designer and builder of devices for people with physical disabilities. … design process emphasized collaboration with the end user and the use of low-cost tools and materials. This way of …
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Alumni Profile: South Hadley Mandolin Orchestra Founder Adam Sweet 80F
… By Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F Adam Sweet 80F began studying and playing music at the age of four, when he started violin … to pursue music as a student at Hampshire College, and also studied animal behavior theory and psychology. At Hampshire, Sweet met student musicians who …
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Hampfest: Hampshire on Display
… College's more than 100 clubs gather to present themselves and woo new members. As a student-writer for Hampshire … I've covered the event every year. It's always fun and always fascinating. (What's Wool People? Why is that … close along one wall. Waiting in that line, I turned right and suddenly saw Hampfest. As I said, I've covered Hampfest …
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Henry P. Kendall Foundation Grant Supports 100 Percent Local Food Efforts at Hampshire College
… Hampshire build collaborative networks with local farmers and community agricultural organizations. “As we move forward with the College’s strategic plan, healthy food and sustainability are part and parcel of what we do here,” said Beth Hooker, director of …
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'Movement as an Intervention' with Miriam King
… for schools that would allow me to study both neuroscience and dance. Dancing is how I express myself—I love being able to move and connect with people without verbal communication. I … something beautiful happens when an audience witnesses and then finds meaning in moving bodies, in a shared space, …
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Hampshire College to Host TEDx Event on October 18
… (FPH) on October 18, 2013. The event will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the main lecture hall of FPH. The event is free and open to the public, with limited seating (100 seats). It … live into two overflow rooms in Franklin Patterson's east and west lecture halls, each also limited to 100 seats …
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Div III Profile: Syrian Refugee Accounts Inspire Student's Emergency Response App
… College undergrad to relay basic health information and help victims in underserved areas find emergency … capital in fall 2015 as part of a community-development and health program facilitated by Hampshire’s Global Education Office, and researching the camp, located about 50 miles from Amman, …
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Notable Alumni
Flavia Mayrinck Vidal 88F, Chair
… she was director of the Brace Center for Gender Studies and instructor in English and interdisciplinary studies at the Jonathan French … Environment, Sustainability). Her academic interests and scholarship center on postcolonial studies, transnational …
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Professor Emeritus Raymond Coppinger's book, Fishing Dogs
… Raymond Coppinger's book, Fishing Dogs Packing your tackle and wading a river without a trusted fishing dog is a recipe … title is Fishing Dogs: A Guide to the History, Talents, and Training of the Baildale, the Flounderhounder, the Angler Dog, and Sundry Other Breeds of Aquatic Dogs (Canis piscatorius) . …
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Div III Profile: RJ Sakai, Multimedia Designer
… Gorry-Hines 11F RJ Sakai grew up surrounded by design and photography, and developed an interest in their effect on social issues. … As a student at Hampshire College, Sakai studied design and anthropology. He began to make links between graphic …
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