Created and recognized for shaping bold new educational approaches, Hampshire is expanding its calendar of academic programs to include a variety of summer programs geared toward professionals and practitioners, advanced high school students, graduate students, and undergraduates.
While pursuing an MFA in design at the University of Texas at Austin, Beth Ferguson 96F bought an electric scooter on Craigslist. When she couldn’t find a place to charge it, she created a solar-charging station on campus. The SolarPump Charging Station became her thesis project, and she wrote a business plan for a course she was taking on social entrepreneurship. Thus was Sol Design Lab launched.
THE SEMESTER’S END is just a few days away, and Christopher Bishop’s Animation Workshop students have settled in for a screening of their newly completed films. As the lights are dimmed, they look both excited and exhausted, an understandable mix at this time of year. Bishop is familiar with that look. He graduated from Hampshire in 2004, so it wasn’t long ago that the visiting assistant professor of computer animati
Like most Hampshire students, Nara Williams 09F is creative, bold about putting her ideas into action, and concerned about living in an environmentally responsible manner. Her academic work focuses on literary journalism and sustainability.
It can’t beam you to distant planets, but a theory posed by physics professor Herbert Bernstein deemed SuperDense quantum teleportation has proven interesting to NASA and others pushing the boundaries of the field of quantum physics. “It sounds very jazzy, but quantum teleportation is actually about making connections for information,” said Professor Bernstein.
With a book atop the South Korean bestseller list, Asian religions professor Ryan Joo has become a celebrated author in his native country. The book, roughly translated as Things That Appear When You Pause, is a collection of essays and shorter works written over the past year and a half. More than 100,000 copies have sold since the January release and it is currently South Korea’s number one bestselling nonfiction w
A student team from Hampshire won first prize in the Health Literacy Hackathon sponsored by CommunicateHealth, a company cofounded by Xanthi Scrimgeour 85F. Zeke Nierenberg 09F, Kira McCoy 09F, Jamie Matheson 11F, and Amit Ringel 08F created a tool—called Carrot/Stick—that uses recorded messages from friends and family to help smokers quit. Within weeks, the inventive team won another award in the Massachusetts Insti
