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Gabrielle Hamilton 83F

… Gabrielle Hamilton is the chef/owner of Prune restaurant and the author of New York Times bestsellers Blood, Bones & Butter and Prune Hamilton is the chef/owner of PRUNE, which she … has been recognized in all major press, both nationally and internationally, and is regularly cited in the top 100 …

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Constance Valis Hill

… Studies from New York University; M.A. in Dance Research and Reconstruction from City College of the University of New … from the International Society of Ballroom Dance; Neutral and a Character Mask certificate from Pierre LeFevre at the … American Dance, Conservatoire d'arts Dramatique in Paris, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. As a …

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Women's Cross-Country Team Wins Conference Championship

… in Randolph, Vt. The team finished with 35 points and a 31:46 average time for 6k. Lara Matthias took second overall, Liz O’Brien was third, and Ash Lamoreaux earned fifth — and all earned All-Conference individual honors. “It felt …

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When Identity Trumps Self-Interest

… school carpool. A Worcester, Massachusetts, native, she and her best friend often drove to school with her friend’s mother. “I admired her mother and felt close to her,” Brochu says. “She’d been able to … in a high-paying managerial position. She was confident and independent. Yet this woman used feminist as a dirty …

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Div III Profile: Project Partners Design Natural Haircare Product Venture

… “Have you ever read the back of your shampoo bottle, and struggled to figure out what those ingredients really … in the process of launching lymph + honey, a natural hair and body care LLC debuting products in stores this November. … have multiple chemical sensitivities—super sensitive skin and hair, so I can’t use most products,” Fuller says. “I’d go …

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It's On You: Symposium Shows What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur

… in amazing experiences over her decades in theater, and can be applied to any interest or career. Hamilton is cofounder and artistic director of KO Festival of Performance, a themed … festival of original performances, workshops, internships, and residencies in the Pioneer Valley, western Massachusetts. …

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Preventing HIV: Teaching Thai Teens to Invest in Themselves

… Dobro. "How do you take complex molecular biology topics and make people care about them, understand them, and make behavior changes because of that knowledge?" In … country's Ministry of Health to teach infection prevention and control in hospitals. She worked with science faculty …

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Hampshire Places High In National RecycleMania Tournament

… national RecycleMania Tournament, a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction … period each spring, colleges across the United States and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash collected …

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Notable Alumni

Sarah Goldfinger 94F

… 94F Sarah Goldfinger 94F Sarah Goldfinger is a producer and writer on television shows such as Brothers & Sisters , Hawaii Five-0 , Grimm , and Jane the Virgin Sarah Goldfinger graduated from Hampshire College with a B.A. in creative writing and literature in 1998.  After graduating, she became the …

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"It Was A Building That Spoke The Loudest"

… community came together to celebrate the milestone. And as with all things Hampshire, they were here to learn, to … day’s theme, “What Buildings Should Do: Environmentalism and Environmental Justice,” att acted a wide range of alums, parents, friends, students, faculty, and staff — from entrepreneurs to architects to activists — …

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Aligning Admissions With Mission

… With Mission Meredith Twombly, Dean of Enrollment and Retention This article originally appeared in the … at Hampshire College, rebels against lectures and passive learning, champions of self-designed majors and project-based learning, had let down our guard and were …

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Hampshire College's Climate Justice League Attends Students for Just & Stable Future Conference

… Climate Justice League attended the Students for a Just and Stable Future conference and networking retreat in Worcester, MA. The weekend soon became more than we had ever expected, and we left with many new friends and resources to help our …

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Div III Profile: Suhilah Booker Studies Benefits of Movement to Early Learners

… thesis on integrating movement in education — and an example of a student making the most of Hampshire’s … verbalizing their understanding of concepts would open up and engage more,” she says. “After that, I read an article by … F. Johnson Library, Booker pored through academic articles and studied concepts such as Laban’s movement analysis and

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Alum Seth Freed Wessler 03F's short film “The Facility” About ICE Detention Now Streaming

… Wessler 03F is based on his reporting, “ Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside … the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing video chat recordings and news footage, he exposes the dire situation detainees … two detainees, a Colombian asylum-seeker Andrea Manrique and Barahona-Marriaga, an immigrant from Honduras. “I thought …

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Unpacking Uber

… Sacrifice in the 21st Century: Notes on Labor, Uber, and Capitalist Social Control,” Ongweso writes that Uber’s … says. “Its goal is to dominate the transportation market and then replace human drivers with self-driving cars.” … Div III is a multi-perspective analysis at the local and global political and economic processes, historical and

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Animated Film Takes Owen Neuburger from Div III to Pixar

… the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Chris Perry, an Academy Award-winner for … at Pixar. “Those two fields go well together side by side, and I use both a lot professionally,” he says. Neuburger … his Div III Computer Graphics Production as a Leader and Generalist. At the core of the project was Union , a …

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April 5, 2019: Letter from Luis Hernandez 70F

… she has been with us, Mim has served the College honorably and well, and I am dismayed by what she has had to endure. What Mim … long-term viability is an existential question, and I hope we can now move toward actually addressing that …

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Sept. 6-8: Five College New Music Festival at UMass Fine Arts Center

… It's a musical form that's thriving in the campuses and small cities of western Massachusetts, where it will be … Hall in Amherst, September 6 - 8. The festival is free and open to the public. New music emerged in the first half … century as an adventurous extension of classical, jazz and other forms and is considered by many vital to the future …

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Christopher Perry

… Christopher Perry Chris Perry holds an M.S. in media arts and sciences from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His B.A., in physics and astronomy, is from Amherst College. His primary interests …

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Division III Profile: Support Structures for First-Generation College Students

… it was really hard to keep up — both academically and socially. The diction used in the classrooms was way … it. My professor, Dean of Multicultural Education and Inclusion Kristen Luschen, had also been a first-generation student, and we got together and talked about what it would be like if …

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November 1: Eqbal Ahmad Lecture by Michelle Alexander

… Ahmad Lecture by Michelle Alexander Civil rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow … Colorblindness," will be held in the Robert Crown Center and is free and open to the public. The New Jim Crow received the NAACP …

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Kiara Badillo 17S

… Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin and New York state - including Long Island and Westchester County Degree: B.A., Hampshire College Email: …

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Notable Alumni

Doug Plotkin 80F

… at various top tier firms including IBM, PA Consulting, and Deloitte Consulting for some 30 years, focusing on IT Strategy and complex contract negotiations. After this long stint of … 80% of the time, landing in three different cities a week and frequently forgetting where he was he was when he woke up …

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2014 CBD Fall Grant Awards Announced

… Grant Awards Announced Hampshire College's Culture, Brain and Development program (CBD) has awarded fall 2014 grants … Division III, Special Education through Art Integration and Language . Alice Morgunova, Division II, Electrophysiological Study with and on Children . Tim Stiles, Division II, Computational …

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Exhibit by photographer using 19th century processes opens at Hampshire Model gallery

… featuring Mary Frey’s photographs of taxidermied animals and forensic facial reconstructions, captured using two … Ambrotypes, familiar from Civil War era portraits, and lithophanes, images cast in translucent porcelain. Frey … in this exhibit invite reflection on loss, presence and questions of life and death. The objects she creates – …

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