We will honor and celebrate the accomplishments of the amazing Hampshire graduates from winter 2025 and spring 2026 on May 16, and look forward to having families and friends on campus to cheer them on! Learn more at commencement.hampshire.edu

Congratulations to Ava Trask F22 whose presentation, "Complete Synthesis of a Novel Organocatalyst for CO2 Incorporation into Organic Compounds," won two awards at the American Chemical Society: Connecticut Valley Section's Undergraduate Research Symposium! Ava is graduating in June. 🐸🔔💚

"[Hampshire] prepares you to critically engage, view, and navigate the world around you, and to do so in such a way that enables you to care for yourself while also caring for others." - Dr. Brit M. Williams 08F www.hampshire.edu/news/where-a...

Once again, we're going to continue to celebrate the Hampshire community for as long as we can, and that includes running features completed before the closure announcement! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/news/rafael-...

We're going to continue to celebrate the Hampshire community for as long as we can, and that includes running features completed before the closure announcement! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/news/profess...

“This is an incredibly painful moment for the Hampshire community, and we are doing everything to support our students in completing their studies and assist our faculty and staff in navigating what comes next.“ — President Jennifer Chrisler www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...

Kit, Amelia, & Rio all have very different scientific concentrations at Hampshire, but they're all working together on a community analysis project in bioinformatics led by professor Julie Johnston. www.hampshire.edu/news/hands-b...

Love to see our very own Hampshire College ⭐Yurt Radio⭐ as Radio Station Visit No. 196 at Radio Survivor, featuring Advanced Media Technical Specialist John Bruner 94F and Yurt Radio Signer Teddy Stahl F22! www.radiosurvivor.com/2026/04/radi...

Hampshire alums Colin Twitchell 78F and Glenn Armitage 81F forged beloved campus makerspace the Center For Design in 1995. Glenn is retiring from Hampshire College this year, after working with, teaching, and inspiring countless members of the community. www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

The Hampshire Dance Program will present the Div III Dance Festival, Thursday, April 9- Saturday, April 11, 2026. Program A: LIGHTWORK, Thursday at 7:30 & Saturday at 7:30 PM. Program B: BELOVED FORMS, Friday at 7:30PM & Saturday 4 p.m. Info and tickets: hampdance.ludus.com

In classic interdisciplinary Hampshire fashion, alum soon-to-be Dr. Talia Adi 10F studied both dance and neuroscience as an undergraduate. She recently defended the Ph.D. portion of her Ph.D./M.D. dual degree with a focus on neuropathic pain disorders. Interview: www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Sending out a big "Get well soon!" to beloved Hampshire alum, actor, and comedian Eugene Mirman 92F who "suffered serious injuries" after being pulled from a burning car at a toll plaza in Bedford, New Hampshire on Tuesday afternoon. He was taken to a local hospital and is reportedly on the mend.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art Molly Morin, who is a sculptor and fiber artist, currently has a show up through April 9 in the South Gallery of Greenfield Community , _Made en Mass_ www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Security in Context is pleased to host Prof. Fernando Brancoli for a residency at The Five College Consortium with events at @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, @mountholyoke.bsky.social. Special thanks to @umassissr.bsky.social. @ufrjoficial.bsky.social @instituteforadvancedstudy

🐸 Great news! The online HampStore is now open! Get your fresh Hamp merch delivered right to you! Tees, sweats, totes, stickers, drinkware, hats, pennants...it's all happening right here: hamp.store 🐸

Join us on April 11! #moon #astro #scicomm @hampshirecollege.bsky.social

Shout out to Hampshire student Gabriel "Dome Lettuce" Carter-Weidenfeld F23, who recently released his thirteenth rap album, "CHOPSZN." An interview with Carolyn Brown for the Daily Hampshire Gazette: gazettenet.com/2026/03/13/i...

Local Developers! Boston Gamedev Week (gamedev.boston) still needs to fill 50, 25, and 10-minute talks for the MiniCon on the 24th and 25th! boston-gamedev-con-pretalx.onrender.com/minicon-2026... @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, @umassamherst.bsky.social Come share your your art! #gamedev #boston

Elle Chan 87F is our new Chair-Elect of the Board of Trustees!🎉🐸 www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

On Wednesday, March 25 Hampshire's own Dr. Juliet Johnson will be the guest speaker at the ever-popular SciTech Cafe! Get to the Abandoned Brewery in Easthampton by 6:30 for her talk Everybody Poops: How Microbes Clean Your Wastewater. Be there or be...💩? scitechcafe.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/e...

Ken Burns on revisiting America’s founding at its 250th anniversary in which he talks about his @hampshirecollege.bsky.social education & how it enabled him to combine the study of #film + #history You can see his senior thesis project here: youtu.be/yyxv1f0knME... www.reuters.com/lifestyle/cu...

The warmest of welcomes to the Hampshire College incoming class of fall 2026! Check your email—admission decisions are rolling out starting TODAY! 🎉🐸🎉 Froggy artwork by Peter Watko 18F

Listening to Ken Burns talk long form you can’t help but notice the way he comes at so many things is informed by the inquisitive skills he had to have learned at @hampshirecollege.bsky.social I love how much he enjoys the process and the study of the details. Such joy and thoughtfulness here:

Hampshire’s December Challenge is underway, with the goal of raising $2 million in critical funds by December 31. As an added incentive, starting today, a generous donor will match the next $250,000 dollar for dollar. You can make your gift and follow the challenge total at hamp.it/decemberchallenge

End of a long but satisfying day: oral exams for seniors graduating this month The writing faculty--both Hampshire College @hampshirecollege.bsky.social alums--organized a party for the students. Moments like this make all the hard work worthwhile, remind us why we took this jon

Congratulations to our new crop of Div FREE Hampsters! We celebrated our 30 winter graduates in the R.W. Kern Center with friends, family, cupcakes, and well wishes from Dean of Faculty Gary Hawkins and President Jennifer Chrisler. ❄️🐸🎓🔔

Congratulations to Hampshire Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literary Arts Nathan McClain who has been selected for a 🔥MacDowell Fellowship🔥! www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Hampshire recently hosted Queer Science's second local multidisciplinary STEM outreach event for high school students. Participants tried out an assortment of STEM demos alongside LGBTQ+ scientists from the Five College Consortium. sites.hampshire.edu/queerscience/ 🔬🧬🦠🏳‍🌈🐸🏳️‍⚧️🧪𝞹📈

Tomorrow at 🌟Amherst Cinema, 7pm: Short Films of Hampshire alum Kelly Sears 96F! "[Her] films traverse the uncanny terrain between documentary and speculative fiction...Each frame becomes a site of possibility, where histories are reexamined and futures imagined." amherstcinema.org/films-and-ev...

Watch President Jennifer Chrisler on InFocus with Patrick Berry talking about the importance of the liberal arts and, of course, what makes Hampshire such a special place. 📺🐸🎓 youtu.be/shESTa-9CSA?...

Hampshire College Professor Emerita & former interim president Marlene Fried has published "Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance." The book brings visibility to an inclusive & intersectional framework for reproductive health ✨ www.hampshire.edu/news/former-...

🐝🐝🐝Congratulations to professors Juliet Johnston and Jennifer VanWyk and the members of spring 2025's Bioinformatics: Community Analysis class on their new article examining bee gut health and climate change! It's a very Hampshire collaboration. www.hampshire.edu/news/communi...

⏰ It's about that time! First Year Early Action applications are due one short week from today on Monday, December 1. 📆 It's free to apply: www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Alum Lysandra Petersson 00F broke into filmmaking after meeting alums Susie & Roy Finch, both 78F, & interning for Susie's Wildwell Films. Today, Petersson has her own full-service production house, Deep Structure, & has made several award-winning series & films. www.hampshire.edu/news/filmmak...

During her time at Hampshire, Div II student Lila Maher F24 has become a true historical fashion scholar, using independent studies to sew her own reproduction vintage clothing. Our flexible curriculum is enabling her to become an expert in a unique field. hampshire.edu/news…

A visit to Hampshire College is now just a click away — at any time and from anywhere. Our new virtual campus tour lets anyone from anywhere in the world get an up-close look at our beautiful campus at their own pace and convenience. Check it out: www.hampshire.edu/admissions/v...

🔥Hey hey🔥—the Early Decision I deadline is THIS SATURDAY, November 15! 🗓️ If you're sure Hampshire is the place for you, it's time to lock in that place! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Hampshire alum and trailblazing biologist Phyllis "Lissy" C. Coley 70F was recently honored by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute with a Barro Colorado Island research trail renamed in her honor www.hampshire.edu/news/hampshi...

Great interview with Izzy Hagerup 16F aka Prewn -- " I was in college, I think my first year is when I joined Blood Mobile and we started playing shows in the dirty basements and it was all exciting and thrilling for me..." post-trash.com/news/2025/10...

Tomorrow, November 1, is the deadline for applications for Spring 2026! apply.hampshire.edu

Thinking about transferring? Want to finish your degree? Hampshire is transfer-credit friendly and 95% of students receive financial aid. The deadline for Spring 2026 transfer students is this Saturday, November 1. www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

The next Hampshire College Open House is coming right up on Saturday, November 8! Register right here: explore.hampshire.edu/portal/open-...

A sunny and colorful fall weekend brought families, friends, alums, faculty, and staff together on the Hampshire College campus to reunite, learn from one another, and have fun. Attendees commemorated 55 years of radical and positive Hampshire changemaking... www.hampshire.edu/news/weekend...

The Hampshire Dance Program is proud to present the 2025 SEED (Show up, Express, Exchange, Dance) concert this Saturday, October 18th at 7:30 p.m. in the Hampshire College Music and Dance Building. \(._.) )_)z / \ Advance sliding scale tix: hampdance.ludus.com/index.php

The deadline for Early Decision I for first-year students is just one month from today! 🗓️ If you're sure Hampshire is the place for you, it's time to lock in that place! ❤️🐸❤️ www.hampshire.edu/admissions/a...

Congratulations to Hampshire alum Margaret Wickens Pearce 84F, who was named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Pearce is "a cartographer who creates maps that foreground Indigenous Peoples’ understanding of land and place." We're so proud! 🐸 #MacFellow www.hampshire.edu/news/cartogr...

Hampshire College has appointed Jennifer Chrisler as its ninth president. www.hampshire.edu/news/jennife...

10/18: Join documentary filmmaker Ken Burns 71F, AI expert Gary Marcus 86F, & Lynn Pasquerella P08, president of the American Association of Colleges & Universities, for a discussion: “Urgent and Unbounded: The Role of Liberal Arts Education in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism.” hamp.it/55years

Congrats to alum Torrey Peters 00F -- her novel Detransition, Baby is number 87 on The New York Times Book Review's list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...