… filmmaker Ken Burns’s work includes Country Music, The Civil War , Baseball , Jazz , Prohibition , and The Roosevelts Award-winning documentary filmmaker Burns has been making films for more than 40 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, he has …

… Coste Lewis 86S Poet and professor Robin Coste Lewis won the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry for her collection Voyage of the Sable Venus Poet and professor Lewis won the 2015 National Book Award for poetry for her collection …

… Wingenbach was unanimously appointed this month by the Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the search committee . He greeted campus community members …

… College Innovators Supported by Roddenberry Foundation Gift The impact of a recent $100,000 gift by alum Eugene "Rod" … Foundation has already been felt at Hampshire. But the main goal of that gift is to help students make an even bigger impact once they leave the College. "Hampshire has got all this great, useful stuff …

… have a direct impact on enriching their courses. This year the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation awarded grants to … and Professor of Comparative Literature Jeffrey Wallen. The purpose of the grants is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers …

… Nora Miller and Lily Cook will represent Hampshire at the Five College PoetryFest on Thursday, March 24, in … Hampshire's Airport Lounge.  Launched in 2002 to celebrate the art of poetry by giving recognition to student poets,  the Five College PoetryFest features two students from each …

… students analyze challenging novels, poems and essays.” The article acknowledges Ellis’s innovative use of digital … widely acclaimed book Citizen: An American Lyric . In the fall term, Professor Ellis used a Mellon Foundation Five … learning of digital tools into her class “Writing from the Diaspora: Reading in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” The …

… Hampshire College alum Kristína Moss Gunnarsdóttir assumed the role of interim Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid on … her responsibilities included: coordinating recruitment to the James Baldwin Scholars Program; conducting data analysis … yield. She served as an elected staff representative to the Board of Trustees Finance Committee and the Staff …

… your life easier. At least, when it comes to your inbox. The idea first hit him last August, when he was trying to … in those emails without opening them individually. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that this web application could be …

… and art. He says it wasn't until he got to Hampshire that the students actually paid attention to his full list—instead of cutting him off somewhere near the middle—and engaged him in conversation about it. "They … excited, and it was obvious that they were inspired by the work they were doing," he says. "I was drawn to Hampshire …

… is as comfortable discussing captivity narratives from the 1700s as she is explaining Rabbinical discourse from the 500s CE. Dr. Rubinstein, assistant professor of Jewish … book on Jewish perspectives of Native American culture in the past two centuries, to be published by Wayne State …

… India, either a permanent or temporary home since 1959, the year the Dalai Lama fled China and set up a Tibetan government in exile there. In the ensuing 50 years, a unique Tibetan society has grown in …

… emerita of dance and movement studies, and member of the Five College Dance Department, holds a B.A. in cultural … from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in modern dance from the University of Utah.  She is co-founder-director of … physicians, and nurses) of all ages and from all over the country and abroad since 1989. They initiated and hosted …

… answered a series of questions about themselves, via the social networking site. When the application was installed on their accounts, their … was automatically transmitted to Chapsky. He organized the data around the "Big Five Theory of Personality." The …

… with difficult and important news. An alumna shared with the administration allegations about inappropriate behavior in the 1970s by the late faculty member Lester Mazor. Following a directive …

… her new documentary at theaters and film festivals around the country, she considered how audiences would react to the emotional subject matter. States of Grace , which screens … Amherst Cinema on Thursday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. , tells the story of Grace Dammann, an HIV/AIDS physician whose life …

… for Challenging Status Quo in Higher Education When the U.S. Dept of Education announced recently it was … Hampshire College once again made national news, extending the results of our campaign to lead national discussions … education. We’ve been aggressively promoting our stance as the one college committed to putting our mission before …

… Writer, and Artist Reina Gossett Responding to requests by the Hampshire community to identify a commencement speaker who could directly address student concerns, the College has selected Reina Gossett. Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 14, at 11 a.m. on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Faculty, in consultation …

… This year's theme, Culture, Mind, and Body, celebrated the College's 43 years of interdisciplinary explorations across the College, as well as 10 years of the Culture, Brain, and Development program. The goal of Div …

… playing them. For over 30 years, Falstein has been in the thick of gaming as it has grown into a multi-billion … projects and hit titles," such as "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis," among many others. Lately, he has been moving into the emerging field of "serious games." "Some recent games …

… Novel Merges Art and Psychology A graphic novel called The Listening Cone , Jeane Cohen's Division III project is a … internal journeys after dark. For Cohen, talking about the project is problematic. "I have trouble talking about the work, because it's supposed to be experienced visually," …

… Todd continues, "which is what I'm doing now." Todd is the director and co-founder of We Happy Few Productions , a theatre company in Washington DC "with the mission of presenting stripped down, small cast, ensemble … texts," she says. We Happy Few is currently performing The Tempest at Capital Fringe . Shakespeare's last play, The …

… Edward Humes , a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of a dozen nonfiction books, will speak at … Hampshire College on Friday, August 30 , at 7:30 p.m. in the Robert Crown Center . (Doors open at 7:15.) A … session and book signing will follow his talk. The event is open and admission is free. Humes will speak …

… Hampshire’s Creative Writing Program, South Asian Studies, the Eqbal Ahmad Initiative, and their cosponsors announce … a panel discussion, on Wednesday April 5, at 6 p.m. in the West Lecture Hall, Franklin Patterson Hall. It will … Smith College, who will speak on Islamophobia in France. The next day, Thursday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m., also in the …

… in human rights issues, and outstanding recommendations. The fellowships bring together international groups of … examples of contemporary issues affecting minority groups. The programs are also intended to instill in Fellows a responsibility to recognize the need to protect minorities and promote human rights in …