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Award-Winning Author Claudia Rankine to Deliver Race Matters Lecture at Hampshire
… Deliver Race Matters Lecture at Hampshire Esteemed author and poet Claudia Rankine, whose 2014 New York Times … Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the NAACP Image Award, and as finalist for the National Book Award. Rankine is the … of the President, Dean of Faculty, Dean of Students, and Diversity and Multicultural Education. The event is free …
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Marlene Fried
… Interim President of Hampshire College. Her scholarship and teaching is focused primarily on abortion rights and access, reproductive and sexual rights and health, and legal theory. She edited …
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Omar S. Dahi
… trustee, as a representative of the Hampshire AAUP, and as interim vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of faculty. He is the founding director of Security … in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and international affairs. He has published in academic …
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No to SATs/ACTs: Not Even Optional at Hampshire College
… SAT or ACT scores in any way as part of admissions and financial aid decisions. Hampshire was among the first … No longer, says Meredith Twombly, dean of admissions and financial aid. Hampshire's "Test blind" decision reflects … It is also consistent with Hampshire's mission and academic approach. The tests more accurately reflect …
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Students, Professors Present Research at National Ecological Conference
… Joshua Murray When Professors Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews were designing the Integrated Sciences … the program's research. Along with Professors Jason Tor and Seeta Sistla, they spent the past year guiding their … research spanning mathematics, hydrology, ecology, and microbiology using the R.W. Kern Center as the object of …
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Div III Participates in Harvard Linguistics Colloquium
… work from his Div III thesis, entitled "The Nature and Process of Metaphorical Interpretation." In it, he synthesizes research in philosophy, linguistics, and literary theory in order to present an original analysis … of his Div III thesis both to Harvard's colloquium and to the Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics …
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Jesús A. Colmenares 03F
… Jesús A. Colmenares 03F Jesús A. Colmenares 03F Chair Audit and Risk Management Jesús Colmenares joined the Board of … Center for Disease Control), academic institutions, and life sciences companies. Jesús has experience in government and pharmaceutical proposal management; government, private, …
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Enchiridion to Hampshire History
… the first Division III students Frog : The Hampshire frog and the Frogbook Hammen : Ruth Hammen, "The Mother of the … the first Division III students Frog : The Hampshire frog and the Frogbook Hammen : Ruth Hammen, "The Mother of the …
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A Multidisciplinary Examination of Depression
… memory (AM), the stress-related chemical cortisol, and a mutation of the genetic region 5-HTTLPR in people with depression and stress disorders. "5-HTTLPR, cortisol levels, and stressful life events have all been studied together and …
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Hampshire Writing Program To Host Award-Winning Author Helen Benedict for Public Reading
… Award-winning nonfiction writer, novelist, playwright and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, Helen … The reading will be followed by a Q&A, book signing and reception. The event is open to the public. Benedict writes frequently about justice, women, soldiers, and war. Her research on sexual assault in the U.S. military …
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Interweaving Women's Health Education into Traditional Cultures
… Tibet to Nepal before they finally settled in Brooklyn, and faced dramatic cultural upheavals with each move. Chemi Chemi’s interest in public policy and women’s rights has roots in her own life experiences. The … Nepal from Tibet before they finally settled in Brooklyn, and faced dramatic cultural upheavals with each move. "I had …
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Div III Profile: Will Meyer Examines the Future of Journalism
… his eyes, still a work in progress. “I think I could go in and spend an additional semester on it. It’s still in its … to my Division III was a whole circuitous maze of twists and turns,” he says. “I started studying Occupy Wall Street, education policy, and farming. It was all over the map, until the last semester …
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Friends of Alum Sander Thoenes, Slain as a Journalist, Dedicate Memorial to Inspire World Citizens
… Dedicate Memorial to Inspire World Citizens Mike Medeiros and John Courtmanche As fellow international students meeting … on their first day at Hampshire in 1987, Sander Thoenes and Sandy Wolofsky decided to play tennis. Thoenes was from Holland, Wolofsky from Montreal, and Wolofsky remembers that on their walk to the courts he …
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Dance Professor Deb Goffe Joins New England Foundation of the Arts’ Regional Dance Development Initiative Cohort
… Initiative Cohort Amy Diehl Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Dance Deborah Goffe was named one of twelve … The purpose of RDDI is to increase the scope, visibility, and viability of dance activity in and across regions in the United States. Goffe is a …
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Kristen Luschen
… College professor of education studies, received her B.A. and M.A. in sociology from the State University of New York … her doctorate in cultural foundations of education and a certificate of advanced study in women's studies from Syracuse University. Her research and teaching explores how cultural conceptions of youth shape …
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A Deep Exploration of William Blake's Poetic Genius
… Blake for his Div III project, an undertaking both sublime and torturous. “I did significant revising,” says Fernandez, … making him a singular genius in the realms of both poetry and the visual arts during the Romantic era. But what exactly … “The way Blake used the world genius is idiosyncratic and weird,” he says. To more fully grasp the word’s …
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Reproductive Realities
… her way into a Div III thesis about feminist philosophy and law when she was brought “to a screeching halt,” she … III on abortion rights. The resulting thesis — Litigation and Legislation: State Responses to the Overturning of Roe v. … of absolute abortion rights,” Tan writes in Litigation and Legislation. . . . There is, therefore, an urgency to the …
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Alum Ché Williams Uses Filmmaking to Tell Stories From the Inside Looking Out
… the commodification of youth basketball, why who we film and how we film matters, and what inspired him to choose Hampshire. What first brought you to Hampshire? My dad went to Amherst College, and he knew I was really into film. Both he and my guidance …
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Alum Matt Hinderhofer 17F Researching Type-I Diabetes at Harvard
… interview with them to talk about their Hampshire journey and what they’re up to now. What did you study at Hampshire? … HCT-116 cells that I grew in culture throughout the year, and I treated them with various doses of cannabidiol or CBD. Then I did apoptosis assays on them and looked at the gene expression changes. So, basically, I …
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Mimi Alkattan: Researching Sustainable Water-Treatment Alternatives
… Edges: Application of Drinking Water Resource Engineering and Research in Low-Income and High-Income Communities Faculty Advisers: Professor … State University Academic Intersections: Natural Science and Critical Social Inquiry "Sixty percent of the water …
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Hampshire Values Inform Approach to Resistance for Alums
… Approach to Resistance for Alums Dineen O’Rourke 13F and Derek Pyle 11F As every Hampshire alum knows, an … IV, which comprises the unexpected yet creative projects and journeys we pursue long after graduation. We leave the … campus environment only to carry the College’s values and pedagogy into the wider world. In our case, we’re two …
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Can Art Fight War?
… Living Pictures. A collection of short stories, essays, and a play that explore life during World War II's siege of … oldest independent literary award, in November 2015, and has drawn praise from numerous reviewers. It has also … born in Leningrad — known as St. Petersburg prior to 1924 and returning to that name in 1991 — and was a prodigy who …
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Reeve Thompson 93F: How Hampshire Prepared Me
… recent talk at Hampshire. The talk, titled, "How Hampshire and My Div III Film Prepared Me for a Career in Videogames, Technology, and Business," described Thompson's work as a videogame producer and cofounder of the software company Department of Behavior …
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Algae as Biofuel?
… are released into the atmosphere. Jon Spencer (04F) does. And the key, he says, is algae. Spencer's Div III project, … algae as a biofuel. "I've tried to design an efficient and inexpensive system to allow the expansion and commercialization of algal biofuel technology," says …
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Alumni Profile: Maud Daudon 73F's "Triple Bottom Line"
… financial officer of the Port of Seattle, the president and CEO of an employee-owned investment bank, and the deputy mayor and chief of staff for the city of Seattle. She co-chairs …
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