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Unique Mical Robinson 05F

… Unique Mical Robinson is a writer/performer, professor, and proud Baltimore, Maryland native. She received her M.F.A. in English from Mills College, and a B.A. in creative writing/Black studies from Hampshire … she has performed poetry since her teens, individually and with collectives throughout the U.S. and Havana, Cuba. …

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Faculty

Carollee Bengelsdorf

… Cornell University, studied Russian history at Harvard, and received a Ph.D. in political science from the … of  The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality , and co-editor of  Cuba in Transition . Professor Bengelsdorf …

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Faculty

Christina Cianfrani

… the University of Pennsylvania, M.S. from Yale University, and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Vermont. … on watershed processes approached from an ecological and engineering perspective. Specifically, she explores the …

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Hampshire College Alum Heather McCargo, Founder of the Wild Seed Project, Wins Source Award

… for her leadership in promoting native plant populations and working to restore biodiversity in Maine. Founded in … is to build awareness of the importance of native plants and to give people the tools to restore biodiversity. The organization collects and sells seeds of 75 wild and uncultivated forms of native …

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Staff

Omar S. Dahi

… Omar S. Dahi Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty / Professor of Economics Omar S. Dahi is interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty and associate professor of economics at Hampshire College and

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Peter Pan Pedagogy

… of Xuemeng Zhao’s Div III — a quote from Indian poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore — both inspires and sums up her work: “In learning a language, when from mere … brings together her interests in education, psychology, and the humanities: all disciplines she studied at Hampshire. …

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Hampshire College Alum Represents

… things,” she says. “History was always important to me. And I got interested in the sociology of race in America, … Loza , associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies, furthered her sense of U.S. history, specifically in regard to class, gender issues, and being black. Smith found herself drawn to examining …

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Hampshire Students Launch Hands-on Lessons in Building Systems

… says Walden Avery as he scoops a pile of gravel. Avery and the three members of his team, all first-year Hampshire … two types of wetlands plants ( Iris versicolor and Juncus effusus ), and water. How much of each material they add is a team …

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Board Member

Carol Salzman 71F

… who volunteers at Mobile Med, a clinic for low-income and uninsured patients. After graduating from Hampshire, Carol completed an MD and PhD in physiology at Georgetown University. Her doctoral research was in the role of lingual lipase and lipid digestion in neonates. She completed a residency in …

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Faculty

Lee Spector

… Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland and a B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College. His main interests are artificial intelligence and the connections between cognition, computation, and evolution. He is also interested in the use of technology …

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Concerns for Women's Health

… Concerns for Women's Health 'The Epidemiology and Political Economy of Cervical Cancer in El Salvador'   … In its pre-cancerous stages, the disease is curable, and proper medical screening and care could save these women. May graduate Juno …

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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: May 8, 2019

… or soon will be. Commencement events for our 295 graduates and their families begin with a Division III gallery exhibit … running all next week, then the Division III Project and Performance Showcase next Friday, capped by an evening reception for students, families, and our community. Saturday, May 18 will mark Hampshire’s …

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Faculty Take Learning Outside the Classroom for First-Year Students

… idea was to take the innovative approach of the tutorials and add more faculty–student interaction, more time outside the classroom, and, as Dean for Academic Support Rachel Rubinstein says, “to build community right away.” Dean of Enrollment and Retention Meredith Twombly says the new model was great …

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OPRA's Karen Warren Selected to Give 2014 Kurt Hahn Address

… 2014 Kurt Hahn Address Hampshire College Outdoor Programs and Recreational Athletics (OPRA) instructor Karen Warren … award. It recognizes Warren for innovative programming and numerous publications and presentations in the United States and beyond. "It is …

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Hampshire Highlighted in AASHE's 2014 Sustainability Review

… toward high-impact transformative learning projects and partnerships to advance sustainability on a local and global front.” In its annual review , the Association for … trends in the higher education sustainability movement and tracks the rise in campus sustainability planning and

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College Innovators Supported by Roddenberry Foundation Gift

… has got all this great, useful stuff created on campus, and sometimes it's hard to get it out into the world," said Colin Twitchell, instructor for design and innovation for social change. "This can really help turn … provides funding for annual grants that aid in development and field-testing of prototypes of student designs, support …

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Photo Books Become Home for a Divided Family

… family had lived in different cities in Texas, California, and Massachusetts. But this time, while packing and unpacking, Hermano found something that made her rethink … II, she made a series of portraits related to biology and genetics. Her project was about “the way your genotype, …

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Open-Access Education: Students Win When Schools Team Up

… have taken a different approach: to collaborate and partner, across public and private education. And the winners are students, educators, and the communities …

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Faculty

Myrna Breitbart

… Breitbart Myrna Breitbart, professor emerita of geography and urban studies, has an A.B. and Ph.D. from Clark University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the gender, race, and class …

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KIMBERLY CHANG's NEW BOOK EARNS NATIONAL ACCLAIM

… to Memory weaves together fiction, anthropology, and memoir   Kimberly Chang, associate professor of cultural … of occupation by the Japanese, World War II, a civil war, and the Communist revolution. Published under her Chinese … that stands at the crossroads of fiction, memoir, history, and anthropology. It has garnered praise in, among other …

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Student Research on the Hampshire College Farm: Raising Pigs Outdoors in Natural Settings

… outdoor settings; she's researching the nutritional and animal-welfare benefits of a pasture versus a woodlot. … Old Spots has also been a hands-on lesson in pig breeding and the business of livestock farming.  Nugent began her studies of swine physiology and nutrition by working on the Hampshire College Farm, which …

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Getting Off the Grid Through the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative

… roof will be the primary means of generating that energy, and the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative began … the Tern Foundation’s Tern SOLAR Challenge Grant Program and a $58,000 gift from an anonymous donor, the goal of the … is paving a path toward innovation, transformation, and social responsibility. The Kern Center promises to serve …

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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery

… photographs were taken during Freedberg’s travels in Italy and India. The exhibit is one of two running simultaneously … Model Gallery, the other is a show of large-scale black and white photographs by Anna Collette entitled "Gathering … and an MFA from Yale University.  http://www.annacollette.com/ For more information on these two exhibits, contact …

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'Quidditch' as Artificial Intelligence Experiment

… version of the rapid-fire game played by young witches and warlocks in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. … terms, teams learn what behavior is desirable by surviving and their desirable traits get passed along in the … In Crawford-Marks' project, titled "Virtual Witches and Warlocks: Computational Evolution of Teamwork and

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Nathan Kensinger Finds Beauty in Forgotten Spaces

… in Forgotten Spaces Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F Abandoned and ruined areas have always fascinated photographer and documentary filmmaker Nathan Kensinger 97F . Currently … airports, hospitals, schools, factories, boat graveyards, and landfills. In his work, Kensinger exposes forgotten …

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