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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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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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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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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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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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Admissions Counselor
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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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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Faculty
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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Faculty
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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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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Board Member
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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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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Alex Emmanuele 12F: Challenging the Status Quo
… by the College’s decision to become “test blind,” with SAT and ACT scores no longer considered in admissions and financial aid decisions. While that was an important … need a way to show who they are, what they’ve done, and why they want to be here.” This past August, Emmanuele …
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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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