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A Div III that Includes Up-close Exploration of Shark Conservation
… Posted: February 19, 2013 Amir Fogel 09F thinks the next 20 years will be "the most influential and life changing for everyone on earth. And a lot of it comes down to what happens with the oceans." For his Hampshire College Division III (senior …
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NSF Grant for Cross-campus Clean Energy/Sustainable Agriculture Programs
… Programs Working in partnership with Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Holyoke Community College has been awarded an $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create collaborative … that will benefit students at all three schools. “The main purpose of the grant is to marry what has for the …
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Div III Profile: RJ Sakai, Multimedia Designer
… graphic design, tourism, and cultural authenticity—how the experiences of tourists are designed, and why people … Massachusetts town known for its quirky events. One of the most well known events in Turners Falls is "Suzee's … designers create outfits out of discarded clothing and use the washing machines as a runway. To complete his research, …
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CLPP 28th Annual Reproductive Justice Conference
… creates reproductive rights opportunities at many levels." The Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) program at … Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom—will take place Friday, April 11, through Sunday, April 13, 2014. The conference focuses on broadening the fight for …
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Board Statement: February 18, 2019
… Board Statement: February 18, 2019 Yesterday the Board of Trustees of Hampshire College met to discuss progress on the efforts to envision and plan for Hampshire’s future. The Board voted to issue the following statement: First, we …
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Notable Alumni
Jeffrey Hollender 74S
… is cofounder of home-products company Seventh Generation, the American Sustainable Business Council, and Sustain … ago, he co-founded Seventh Generation and went on to build the fledgling company into a leading natural product brand … and provoke business leaders to think differently about the role they and their companies play in society. Along the …
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Student Enterprise In Agricultural Technology Awarded A $20K Venturewell Grant
… farms, has been awarded a $20,000 VentureWell grant. Over the past two years, the Agrigatr team designed its first prototype device, the Health and Environmental Analytics Toolkit (HEAT), to …
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Erick Msumanje Awarded Princess Grace Foundation Film Scholarship
… Film Scholarship Erick Msumanje 09F has been awarded the Princess Grace Foundation-USA 's 2012 John H. Johnson … student working in film. Msumanje plans to use the scholarship money to make his Hampshire College Division III film, tentatively titled My Mother's Songs . The scholarship will enable him to return to his home country …
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Hampshire College Faculty Participate in Five College Working Group “Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective”
… are members of an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Five Colleges exploring topics of "Race, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in Global Perspective." For the academic year 2021–22, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies …
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2013 Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching
… of Mathematics Sarah Hews were chosen as recipients of the 2013 David Gruber Awards for Excellence in Advising and Teaching. Established by David Gruber 72F , the awards are intended to showcase faculty excellence at Hampshire College while encouraging the spread of ideas and methods that help professors provide …
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Roddenberry Big Impact Grants Awarded
… Herson 95F , have been awarded a total of $11,500 through the College's first Roddenberry Big Impact grant program. Funded by the Roddenberry Foundation and run by Hampshire's Creativity Center, the grant program was established to aid in the testing of …
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Andrea Domingue Is New Director of Multicultural & International Student Services
… and international student services, responsible for the operation of the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center and student services for the SOURCE (Students of Under-Represented Colors and …
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Notable Alumni
Jonathan Friedland 77F
… Friedland 77F Jonathan Friedland 77F Jonathan Friedland is the chief communications officer for Netflix. He has spent … and publicity for original Netflix shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards —and has overseen the international expansion of Netflix's reach into 190 …
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Hampshire College Student Theatre Presents Fall 2018 Productions
… Gabe Sklan Two plays are going up this weekend in the Hampshire College Studio Theatre, and tickets are available now. The first, Marisol , is a published work by the award-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated …
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Sept. 24: Hampshire Fall Feast & BAMCO Eat Local Challenge
… This event is tonight, Tuesday, Sept. 24, from 5-7 p.m. in the RCC. All in the Hampshire campus community are invited. Each fall for the past few years, students involved in the Local Foods …
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Professor Annie Rogers on Language and Art by Patients in Psychosis
… Annie Rogers’s Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language (Karnac Books, May 2016) explores the connection between speech patterns and art made by … in psychosis and incorporates first-person accounts of the experience. On April 27, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., Rogers will …
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Notable Alumni
Jeff Ritter 78F P14
… a long time and a part of ‘alternative education’ since the first time I was exposed to outdoor education with Project Use in NJ at age 14. A year with the Trailside Country School traveling the country meeting resource people, camping, backpacking, …
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Chen Chen 07F
… Chen Chen 07F Chen Chen 07F Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further … (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. He is also the …
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Hampshire Alum Elizabeth Brundage’s Newest Book Named a Must-Read for July by “The Today Show”
… Brundage’s Newest Book Named a Must-Read for July by “The Today Show” Amy Diehl Hampshire alum and author Elizabeth Brundage 78F’s newest book, The Vanishing Point , was recently named a must-read for July by The Today Show . The book was one of five selected by …
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Faculty
Monique Roelofs
… professor emerita of philosophy, received her M.A. from the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland; and was a postdoctoral fellow in …
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Jeffrey Wallen
… Literary Politics and Public Culture was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Wallen has taught as a visiting professor at the Free University Berlin and at the University of Toulouse, and has been the director of …
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Daniel Kojo Schrade
… studied in Germany and Spain. He received an M.F.A. from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany. His paintings and … have been presented internationally, including at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico; Alliance … in Munchen, Germany; Muzej Grada in Rijeka, Croatia; and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. He has taught …
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Student Profile: Div III Kamil Peters 06F
… find art where scrap metal used to be. Even as a student, the talented metal sculptor is already getting commissions … niche," says Peters. A January term blacksmithing class in the Lemelson Center with Hampshire graduate Ben Westbrook 99F finally led Peters in the right direction. Metal was his medium. In the years …
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Roddenberry Foundation Renews $100,000 Gift to Hampshire
… Hampshire College has received a gift of $100,000 from the Roddenberry Foundation to support student, faculty, and … of a $100,000 gift first given in 2012, which allows the college to fund a variety of scientific, technological, … and design projects intended to benefit society and the greater good. The Roddenberry Foundation is led by …
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Div III Profile: Hampshire’s Phuong Leverages Five Colleges for Advanced Engineering Studies
… Lan Phuong “Panda” Nguyen Hoang’s Division III thesis has the potential to stretch from here to the moon with her research focused on superconducting … a case study that relied on classes available through the Five College Consortium, has earned her acceptance into a …
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