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Evolutionary Robotics

… of designing robots one day. Hampshire College gave him the chance to actually build one.  "When I was looking at colleges, I saw that Hampshire was one of the only schools with an artificial intelligence program … at Hampshire on artificial intelligence (AI).  With the support of computer science professors Lee Spector at …

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Jacqueline Hayden

… Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for her photographs of … been shown in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Alternative Museum in N.Y.C., Aldrich Museum of …

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Hampshire a Top-40 College for Alums Earning a Doctorate, Federal Data Reveals

… of graduates who advance to earn a doctorate, close on the list to Dartmouth, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Carnegie Mellon, and Columbia. The result is notable from a college whose students design … written evaluations instead of grades. According to the most recent census from the National Science Foundation’s …

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019

… intellectual exercise and active inquiry. This remains the heart of Hampshire's program, as Franklin Patterson and Chuck Longsworth wrote in The Making of a College . Five decades later, we see the results of active inquiry every day in the lives of our …

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An Alternative Microcredit Model

… of anthropology at Hampshire College and chair of the Five College Buddhist studies certificate program, said … senior project: "Kasia's Division III really exemplifies the very best student work at Hampshire. She designed, raised the funds for, and implemented a microcredit program, …

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Div III Profile: Isaiah Mann, GlowLime Games, and Defender's Light

… with an extensive business model and pitch documents means the organization will continue to provide an outlet for … a sustained operation that would thrive long after he left the College. “The goal of GlowLime,” Mann says, “has always been to promote …

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William Brayton

… emeritus of art, received his B.A. in studio art from the University of New Hampshire and an M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In addition to founding the sculpture program at Hampshire in 1988, he has taught visual art at the University of New Hampshire, and the Chautauqua School of …

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Jan. 22-Feb. 28: Barbara Norfleet Photography Exhibition

… of new work by photographer Barbara Norfleet, DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol , will be in the Jerome Liebling Center at Hampshire College from January … gatherings, reimagined through collage as a meditation on the subject of alcohol. Norfleet is the founder and director …

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Aaron Fagan 94S

… at Hampshire College and Syracuse University. He is the author of the poetry collections Garage (Salt Publishing, 2007), Echo … Publishing, 2010), and A Better Place Is Hard to Find (The Song Cave, 2020). His writing has appeared in American …

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Hampshire College Held Free On-Campus Vaccine Clinics

… held its first no-cost COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Robert Crown Center, open to all enrolled students and … May 16, just after Commencement, so that participants from the first clinic, as well as those who had received a first dose of Pfizer vaccine elsewhere within the appropriate time window for efficacy, could receive their …

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Alum Brings Thai Labor Leader to Hampshire

… Liberties and Public Policy program . Cotshadet came to the United States this October through the State Department's International Visitor Leadership … Program (IVLP). Melcher, who is Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Western Massachusetts , …

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Professor Ethan Meyers and UMass Colleagues Win National Science Foundation Grant to Study Brain Function

… was recently awarded a four-year, $953,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of a nationwide … for new insights into neural and cognitive systems. The research aims to develop new methods with potential … neuromotor control, such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. The five-member team, which includes four researchers at …

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Hampshire Alum Orisanmi Burton 99F Named 2021 Freedom Scholar

… Alum Orisanmi Burton 99F Named 2021 Freedom Scholar The annual award from Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group … and prisons and policing. His current research focuses on the wave of prison rebellions across the United States in 1970, and he is finalizing his first …

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Fourth-Annual ENGAGE! Conference Addressed Dismantling Violence

… participate in interactive community education activities. The event doubled as Hampshire’s second day of Community Education, part of the new academic curriculum ; the first was held on September 17 . Sponsored by the Office …

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Cassidy Rappaport 12F Wins Charley Richardson Award

… first incoming class in 1970, died in May 2013. The award was established by his classmates, friends, and … family to honor his dedication to organizing and building the collective voice and power of workers and their unions as … and others most impacted by war.   Rappaport will use the $2,100 award to intern with the Pan-African Association …

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Computer Collaboration

… Collaboration Getting computers to work together is the goal of Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin's (04F) final Hampshire … allow multiple computers to handle complex tasks together. The project involves the principle of distributed processing. "The basic idea …

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Hampshire College Receives Historic $5 Million Gift Honoring Alum Ken Burns

… announces a new $5 million investment in its Change in the Making campaign. This second $5 million gift to the campaign, given by an anonymous benefactor, will fund the Ken Burns Initiative to Transform Higher Education, …

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Water Rights and Policy

… Rights and Policy Marushka Grogan 09F's Div III involves the development of a handbook intended for use by communities across the country facing conflicts over water rights. "There are a … conflicts that have no preparation for it," said Grogan. "The water resources handbook is geared towards communities …

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Hampshire Joins Universal College Application

… Application Hampshire College is pleased to join with the Universal College Application. In response to serious technical problems with the Common Application this fall, Hampshire is now offering students the alternative of using the Universal College Application …

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SuperDense Quantum Teleportation Success

… Success Hampshire’s Professor Bernstein posed the theory of SuperDense quantum teleportation more than a … state from one part of a laboratory to a remote station. The report — “SuperDense Teleportation Using Hyperentangled … significant advances within various scientific fields. The article authors are Trent Graham, Bernstein, Paul Kwiat, …

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R.W. Kern Center's Water Treatment System

… R.W. Kern Center's Water Treatment System The R.W. Kern Center’s design documents explain that the building’s greywater—water from the bathrooms and kitchen sinks and drinking fountain …

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Women Welders

… shape her future to such a large degree. Four years later, the Manchester, Vermont, native, who will graduate on May 17, is completing her final academic project on the history of women welders. "I had never done any welding, … Throughout college, Kenney continued to work in the Dorothy and Jerome Lemelson Center for Design at …

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Professors'’ Paper Explores Dynamics of Wolf Pack Behavior

… Dynamics of Wolf Pack Behavior A paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface sheds light on the effectiveness of cooperation in wolf pack hunting. …

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Hampshire College Welcomes First Non-Human Scholars-In-Residence

… Hampshire College is proud to announce the founding of the world's only academic program for non-human species. The first scholars-in-residence, plasmodial slime molds known …

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Kenneth Rosenthal P04, Vice Chair

… Amherst, Massachusetts Ken Rosenthal was president of The Seeing Eye until his retirement in 2006. The Seeing Eye is the premier dog guide school in the world, with the mission …

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