… professor Aracelis Girmay has won a 2015 Whiting Award. The Whiting Foundation gives the award annually to ten emerging writers in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The awards of $50,000 each are based on early accomplishment …

… rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow —will deliver the 15th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on November 1 at 4 p.m. Her talk, "Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," will be held in the Robert Crown …

… economics at Hampshire College and a research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding director of Security in Context, a research …

… Fellowship. Rivera was one of 25 Fellows chosen by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their … talent and exceptional creativity.” Colloquially known as the MacArthur "genius" grant, the fellowship includes a stipend of $625,000 for the pursuit …

… has established a fund to honor Jackie Pritzen, one of the consortium's early leaders, who died in August at the age of 83. Pritzen was hired in 1969, four years after … having taught at Mount Holyoke and Smith colleges. Over the next 26 years she worked closely with four executive …

… Culture Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak will deliver the seventh annual Schocket Lecture on Tuesday, April 15, at … Main Lecture Hall. Her talk is entitled "Class and the Disciplines." Professor Spivak is a literary theorist and co-founder of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at …

… Celebrates Commencement: May 12–15 Congratulations to the newest Div-Free members of our community! To celebrate … article on Hampshire's 2021 commencement festivities from the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The bell ringing celebration and virtual commencement …

… College’s second Other Worlds Are Possible event of the spring semester will be held February 24 and will help kick-off the semester’s first Community Education Day on February 25. Community Education Days are part of the College’s new curricular model and are integrated …

… College graduate Joshua Marvel, was accepted into the 2005 Plymouth Independent Film Festival. Marvel completed … at Hampshire. In a series of slowly shifting scenes, the five-minute animated film depicts a burned-out husk, with … in a cycle of reclamation. Color values move fluidly from the subtle and minimalist to vibrant and sharp, creating the …

… Policy As immigrants and immigration have become the fodder for electoral battles again this season, a … two decades of anti-immigrant policy at an event open to the public on campus this month. The panelists work on the front lines investigating and …

… was hired at Pixar studios. His experience in creating the animated film  Union  for his Division III capstone … an introductory 3-D animation course. He then continued the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and … III chair, with Professor of Computer Science Lee Spector the other member of the committee. Neuburger’s talent with …

… as an undergraduate, because I understood very quickly the extraordinary role Hampshire plays in transforming the lives of our students. Coming to Hampshire as a student … education is anything but safe. A college that embodies the motto “to know is not enough” demands a deeper …

… 4. Preliminary projections for fall enrollment on the Amherst, Mass. campus: 700-750 students representing 42 … Wingenbach has appointed key administrators and is guiding the College in its work advancing other key priorities: delivering a quality education in the most student-driven degree program in the country, …

… Daudon 73F has a resume that's hard to beat. She has been the chief financial officer of the Port of Seattle, the president and CEO of an employee-owned investment bank, …

… I would do philosophy, and those were good classes. But the math classes surpassed my expectations so much that I … really catches Engberg's attention. Essentially a study of the properties of integers (negative and positive numbers and … yet, that are fascinating and extremely important in the field," he says, noting that even when answers are …

… at Boston University. His Ph.D. thesis in biology at the University of Massachusetts is on the effect of experience and novelty on avian feeding behavior. He joined the founding faculty at Hampshire College in 1969. He …

… Reel to Reel to Reel Abigail Meisel No one would ever use the word dynastic to describe Hampshire College. But it’s undeniable that the film program has linked one cohort of successful documentarians to the next, providing successive generations of directors, …

… member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama Foundation, Jamie Citron 01F was recently named to the Biden-Harris administration. Jamie Citron 01F serves as deputy assistant to the President and principal deputy director of the White …

… of Biological Anthropology and former president of the American Anthropological Association Alan Goodman was featured on the Human Biology Association’s podcast SoS . In the episode, titled “How the Outside Gets In,” Goodman and …

… of cognitive science, both leading researchers in the field of dog behavior, are co-authors of the upcoming book How Dogs Work. Approaching dogs as a … decades of research and field experiments to explain the evolutionary foundations underlying dog behaviors. They …

… made a major endowment gift to support faculty. He’s the lead donor for the budding Rosenthal Fund for Faculty, which will generate … so far, from Rosenthal and more than 50 other donors. The four institutions that founded Hampshire — Amherst, …

… to speak to a class led by Bret Golann 71F, coordinator of the College’s Entrepreneurship Program. Cantwell 74F is one of the most prominent voices in the craft-beer movement, an author, and cofounder of the …

… Management By Michael Samuels 09F Max Neale 05F goes at the Asian clam from all angles: In his Division III (senior) … fluminea, in Lake Tahoe, California , Neale examines the science, politics, and economics of the invasion and management of the Asian clam, a species that …

… Hampshire a Top Producer of Fulbright Scholars The U.S. State Department and the Chronicle of Higher Education have named Hampshire … Hampshire is one of 11 bachelor’s institutions to receive the designation this year. Hampshire qualified for the …

… of student speakers, performers, and local businesses from the Five College Consortium in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. This showcase will be held on November 19 , 2015 (Thursday) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center …