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Alumni Panel Event To Focus On Immigration, Anti-Immigrant Policy

… electoral battles again this season, a distinguished panel of Hampshire College alumni will look back at two decades of anti-immigrant policy at an event open to the public on … lines investigating and challenging the criminalization of immigrants in the United States. On Wednesday, March 23, …

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Grads Urged to Nurture Community, Work for Justice at 2017 Commencement

… III project, was coupled with another acknowledgment: of the families who supported the 306 students receiving … Namrata Jacob and Charisse DelVecchio spoke to the crowd of 2,500 about the importance of love in building a community, a lesson learned partly as …

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Area Of Study

Theatre

… on active participation and production from the first year of study onward, rather than limiting it to third and fourth … therefore, community engaged learning is an integral part of the learning process.  Collaboration is strongly … Theatre concentrators are responsible for all facets of the production process at Hampshire, from play selection …

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A Gift to Support Humanities Students’' Research

… Students’' Research A $5,000 gift from Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature Alicia E. Ellis and … Division III work. It is meant to enhance the ability of students to conduct research at an advanced level and also … Grant applications will be considered by a committee of faculty members in the humanities and cultural studies. …

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How Hampshire Celebrated Earth Day 2015

… was highlighted by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in High Education (AASHE) for “advancing … sustainability on a local and global front.” We were one of only 11 institutions to be featured. What a way to begin … a Writing About the Environment workshop by Andrew Revkin of the New York Times, who has been writing the blog Dot …

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Student Project Creating Smartphone Software to Monitor Blood Sugar

… Sugar Michael Samuels 09F Dillon Compton 06F gets a lot of use out of his smartphone. "That's how I read most of my news, that's how I check Facebook, and do all of my …

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Faculty Take Learning Outside the Classroom for First-Year Students

… Outside the Classroom for First-Year Students A group of Hampshire first-year students were treated to more of their learning outside the classroom, as their Hampshire professors piloted a model of tutorials emphasizing more active, experiential learning …

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Board Member

Ellen S. Sturgis 77F

… the Hampshire Board in 2018. She is currently a principal of Night Heron Consulting which offers interim CEO & CFO … She is also currently serving on the Selectboard of Stow MA, having formerly served as Assistant Town Moderator and on a variety of boards in Stow, including the Second Century Library Fund, …

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Faculty

Rachel Conrad

… childhood and youth studies, 20th- and 21st-century poetry of childhood , and youth-authored texts. Her courses focus on … University, and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Conrad’s scholarship integrates critical social studies of childhood and literary studies in recovering and reading …

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Division III: Bats Around the World

… at Hampshire with an interest in ornithology, the study of birds. A semester abroad in Costa Rica, however, cemented an interest in another sort of winged creature: the bat. "The diversity of bats blows my mind," said Baldwin 08F. "There are over …

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Wetlands Boxes as Water Filters

… ranges from almost clear to molasses brown. Each group of students is measuring how tap water is affected when … tests, the students can begin to assess the effectiveness of their wetlands design. “They constructed the boxes with a range of materials to work with. Now they’re noticing the …

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Statement on Investment Policy and Fossil Fuel and Private Prison Industries

… Industries David Dinerman, Hampshire Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee Hampshire College has had a longstanding policy of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-oriented … Media Collective (DMC) in 2014 and 2015.  At the request of DMC, Hampshire modified its policy, by specifically …

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 20, 2019

… College Community, At its meeting last month, the Board of Trustees voted to “resolve to admit a class for fall 2020 … The answer is, the remarkable, historic outpouring of support this spring from Hampshire alums, friends, and … fully in the Five College Consortium for the benefit of our students and employees The New England Commission of

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Slow Down and Enjoy the 17mph Ride: A Hampshire-style Tribute for Professor Kelly

… David Kelly taught the mathematical and social history of the number 17, which "has fascinated mathematicians for 2,000 years, it has a lot of mathematical properties," he says.  His office is filled … Jaguars. He's not all that into football, but the score? "Of course 17. And then 51 is 17 times three," he says, …

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Conference Examining Alcohol Policy in the United States

… policy in the United States. By tracing the history of both alcohol use and legal controls in the United States, … clandestine and increasingly high risk drinking practices of young Americans, where/how/why young people drink and … driver's license programs, Torpey proposes a new set of more comprehensive and effective graduated alcohol …

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In Its 12th Year, Sandol Stoddard Fund Supports Gifted Undergraduate Writers

… student writers for summer projects. Stoddard, mother of Hampshire alum Gerry Warburg, enjoyed a celebrated career as an author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her body of work totals 26 published books, among them award-winning …

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Hampshire on 'Most Entrepreneurial Colleges' List

… graduates, identifying the top 20 schools with founders of the most companies with 10 or more employees. Businesses … practices, and social responsibility. One great example of a Hampshire entrepreneur? Gary Hirshberg 72F , founder and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's leading organic yogurt …

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Staff

Robert Horowitz, M.D.

… Staff Physician, University Health Services, University of Massachusetts Amherst Dr. Horowitz is a consulting family … who worked at University Health Services, University of Massachusetts/Amherst from 1990-2014.  He has particular … mind-body medicine; and men's health. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and New York Medical College and did his …

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Faculty

Paul Jenkins

… Paul Jenkins Paul Jenkins, professor emeritus of poetry, holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington at Seattle. He has taught at Elms College and the University of Massachusetts and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in …

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Faculty

Judith Mann

… Judith Mann Judith Mann, professor emerita of art, holds a BSc from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts.  She taught at Mount Holyoke College, the …

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An Alternative Microcredit Model

… Bangladesh Abraham Zablocki, visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Hampshire College and chair of the Five College Buddhist studies certificate program, said of Kasia Paprocki's senior project: "Kasia's Division III …

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April 29, 2019: Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President

… the College for a long future. We asked every division of the College to reduce its budget. We have to reduce our … To accommodate budget cuts in Academic Affairs, many of our faculty decided to voluntarily choose reductions to … still be able to take courses with and be advised by many of our current faculty, whether a professor remains fully …

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Fish, Food, and Funerals

… anthropology and food studies. These topics were the focus of his Division III (senior project), "Going Native with Disposable Chopsticks," a study of the popularity of ethnic restaurants and how they shape the American view of

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Div III: War and Peace in the Pioneer Valley

… Peace in the Pioneer Valley," is an anthropological work of creative nonfiction comprised of seven essays all tackling a different aspect of the antiwar movement in the Pioneer Valley. The work is …

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Ibis Evidence in Activism Award for Marlene Gerber Fried

… Public Policy (CLPP) director; Sigmund Roos 73F , chair of the Hampshire College Board of Trustees; Diana Fernandez, interim dean of students; and Amy Crysel, CLPP director of operations and …

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