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Gifts Support "“Bridge to College”"

… Gifts Support "“Bridge to College”" The First Niagara Foundation and the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation have each … Hampshire Youth Connect, begun as a pilot program in the summer of 2011 through the support of community and …

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Culture, Brain & Development Program Spring 2019 Student Grant Awards

… Program Spring 2019 Student Grant Awards Amy Dryansky The Hampshire College Culture, Brain and Development (CBD) program is closing out the semester by awarding over $14,000 in grant funds to seven students. The grantees represent many fields of study and range from …

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January 23, 2019: Letter from Hampshire's Board of Trustees

… 23, 2019: Letter from Hampshire's Board of Trustees To the Hampshire Community, Last Tuesday, with President … surprise. We regret that this news seemed to come out of the clear blue sky. The Board has been working with Mim since she arrived to …

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Culture, Brain, and Development Program Announces Latest Student Grant Awards

… Program Announces Latest Student Grant Awards Amy Dryansky The Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) Program has awarded $13,600 to students in its fall grant cycle. The funds will support the research of 11 Hampshire students working across …

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Hampshire Offering Innovative Summer Programs

… and lifelong learners as well as undergraduates. From the opportunity to participate in a film workshop with famed … innovative leadership in selected academic fields. The summer programs also give the College's faculty and staff a time to implement and …

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When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

… Trumps Self-Interest Abigail Meisel For Olivia Brochu, the political is personal.  The first germ for what would be her thesis — White Women for … intelligent woman was also antifeminist? Fast-forward to the 2016 presidential election. The results perplexed and …

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Faculty

Kay Johnson

… a professor of Asian studies and politics and director of the Hampshire College China Exchange Program. Her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. were from the University of Wisconsin. In Memory of Kay Johnson, … and Mentor "Sue Darlington, dean of CSI, expressed the feelings of many on campus, writing to school colleagues …

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Dean Couperus Creating National Model for Teaching Brain Imaging

… Teaching Brain Imaging Michael Medeiros Undergrads around the country will soon benefit from a curriculum on … awarded to a team including Jane Couperus, dean of the School of Cognitive Science and associate professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience. The NSF awarded $600,000 through its Improving Undergraduate …

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Hampshire Listed in Top 5 Schools to Study Video Game Design

… Listed in Top 5 Schools to Study Video Game Design The Princeton Review chose the schools based on a survey it conducted in fall 2013 of … offering video game design coursework and/or degrees in the United States, Canada, and some countries abroad. The

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Asymptomatic Testing Program for Fall 2020

… Asymptomatic Testing Program for Fall 2020 During the fall 2020 semester, Hampshire College is conducting … testing for asymptomatic COVID-19 infection through the Broad Institute Clinical Research Sequencing Platform Safe for School program. The test is a PCR viral assay and involves a quick and easy …

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New Exhibit Showcases Young Photographers from Vietnam

… have its U.S. premiere at Hampshire College this month.  The young photographers were students in a modern photography … an independent documentary center in Hanoi, Vietnam. The works represent the contemporary experience of a group of young, urban …

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Sept. 2-27: Anchor House Artists

… College is proud to announce its opening show for the fall 2013 gallery season: An exhibition by the Anchor House of Artists will run September 2-27, with an … Anchor House of Artists works to subsidize and promote the interests of artists living with mental illness. Not …

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Grant Will Support Conference Organized by Prof. Falguni Sheth

… and Professor Mickaella Perina have received a grant from the American Philosophical Association to support their work organizing the 2014 California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. Sheth … political theory at Hampshire College. Perina is chair of the philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts …

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Alum Benjamin Mako Hill 99F Awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award

… alum Benjamin Mako Hill 99F, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, received a National Science … Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The NSF’s CAREER award is a prestigious grant that supports …

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Hampshire’s Community Orientation Day Focuses on Reaffirming Commitment to Anti-Racism

… on Reaffirming Commitment to Anti-Racism As part of the College’s community orientation on August 31, which kicked off the fall semester, students, faculty, and staff came together … Institution: Knowledge, Action, and Commitment.” The session reaffirmed the College’s commitment to becoming …

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David H. Matheson P11 P13

… P11 P13 David H. Matheson P11 P13 David Matheson joined the Board in 2014. He is a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, where he worked from 1980 to 2010 and served as a senior partner. He was the founder and global leader of the firm’s health care …

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Rebecca Holland 77F

… Rebecca Holland 77F Brooklyn, New York Rebecca Holland is the assistant vice president for global standards and … in social and political history, she earned a J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. … began her legal career as a criminal defense attorney with the Legal Aid Society of New York City, working in the

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Giving Voice to Identity

… through six at Hampshire, was a comprehensive study of the lives of the indigenous peoples of New England. Similar studies have … student from southern Arizona, brought a personal twist to the work. "I specifically looked at the science of …

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Earl Ubell Grant Awarded to SarahMay Harel 11S

… academic projects. Harel is interested in the new field of "positive psychology," the science of happiness. She has designed a Stress Less! … psychology techniques for a happier and healthier life in the Hampshire College community. Specifically, of their …

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A Year of Events Celebrating 50 Years

… for Hampshire College — its 50th anniversary. Sadly, for the safety and well-being of our students and guests, we had to postpone the in-person portion of our celebration to October 15–17, 2021, but we’ve been honoring the impact Hampshire continues to have on the world through a …

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Hampshire Alumna Kate Browne 78F Builds Community Art

… a 26-foot x 10-foot cocoon with a small-town community in the Mississippi Delta. The cocoon is part of a larger collaborative arts project … its community and is connected to every other in the continuum of Browne's project.   So far, three have been …

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Jamie Citron 01F Named to Biden-Harris Administration

… Jamie Citron 01F was recently named a special assistant to the president for presidential personnel for the Biden-Harris administration. Citron is a former Obama … member and longtime director of development strategy at the Obama Foundation. Citron began his career in politics …

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School of Critical Social Inquiry Division III Presentations

… Studies of Iran and Lebanon Samantha Valente Rethinking the "Doldrum Years:" The Fight for Gender Reform Through the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America …

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Photograph Inspires Ravett's Latest Film Project

… for his newest film project, Holding Hands with Ilsa. The photograph, taken in a meadow near his hometown of Walbrzych in Poland in 1950, captures Ravett at the age of three with his teenaged babysitter Ilsa. Ravett … Israel (before settling in Brooklyn in 1955) shortly after the photograph was taken, and he never saw or heard from Ilsa …

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Hampshire Art Professor Nominated for "World's Largest Children's Literature Award"

… silhouettes, sculptures, and embroideries, surrounding the tools of her craft: brushes, paint, cloth, clay, … materials. “I try to model different ways artists work in the real world, and create a sustainable practice where one … I have such a wide-ranging practice, my students can see the many different ways one can practice art.” Dezsö was …

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