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2011-2012

Five College Ethnomusicology Certificate celebration to showcase student research (page created 4/16/12)

Renowned Ghanaian percussionist and dancer to perform and teach during Five College residency (page created 3/23/12)

Five College Pritzen Lecture explores Indian king touched by the European Enlightenment (page created 3/20/12)

Renowned environmental artist Christo to keynote Five College Riverscaping Conference on April 19, 2012 (page created 3/20/12)

Five Colleges' top student poets share their work at the 10th-annual PoetryFest at UMass Amherst (page created 3/6/12)

Five College Multicultural Theater presents Word! 2012, a student festival of staged readings (page created 3/6/12)

Choral Festival to join together hundreds of voices in song (page created 2/15/12)

Hundreds of new students attend Five College orientation social (page created 2/7/12)

Five Colleges receives $1.5 million grant from Mellon Foundation (page created 11/21/11)

Five Colleges announces search for Director of Digital Humanities Initiative (page created 10/27/11; modified 11/11/11 )

The Lorna M. Peterson Prize: Deadline for Nominations: December 15, 2011 (page created 11/10/11)

Five Colleges announces Sixty-Second Video Contest for students (last modified 11/1/11)

Applications from Five College faculty now being accepted for Mellon Faculty Seminars on Teaching with the Collection

Sixth-annual Five College Africa Day features dance, drumming and discussion (page created 10/27/11)

Museums10 featured in Boston Globe article, "These trails lead to artistic expression"

Five Colleges, Incorporated to host American Council on Education fellow (page created 10/4/11)

Race, class, gender and religion focus of Five College Days of Dialogue (page created 10/3/11)

Five College Women's Studies Research Center Events for Fall, 2011 (page created 9/28/11)

Pulitzer Prize winner featured at symposium exploring the causes and consequences of the Civil War (page created 9/21/11)

Filmmaker Jay Craven hosts intensive workshop for Five Colleges (page created 9/9/11)

9/11 Considered by the Five Colleges (page created 9/7/11)

Five Colleges and PVTA agree to more buses and faster routes (page created 9/6/11)

Five Colleges to celebrate new music with three-day festival (page created 8/19/11)

Springfield Tornado Relief: Resources for helping victims of the June 1 tornado (page created 6/14/11)

Amherst College names Carolyn A. Martin as president

Hampshire College names Jonathan Lash as president

2010-2011

Leadership institute to train leaders of higher education consortia (page created 6/17/11)

Sarah Vazquez first recipient of annual Five College Lorna Peterson Prize (page created 4/26/11)

Five College Sustainability Studies is now online

Five College Multicultural Theater presents Thomas Bradshaw reading (page created 4/21/11)

Five College Women's Studies Research Center picks new director (page created 4/20/11)

Five College Riverscaping Project receives radio coverage

Five College Learning in Retirement Awarded Grant for Civil War Symposium (page created 4/13/11)

Climate scientist explores how carbon sequestration could help stop global warming (page created 4/11/11)

Riverscaping Learning Lab explores sustainable approaches to the Connecticut River (page created 4/1/11)

Five College Center for East Asian Studies noted in China Daily

Greenpeace USA Research Director Kert Davies speaks at Hampshire College March 28, 2011 (page created 3/24/11)

Five College Multicultural Theater hosts student reading and visiting playwright (page created 3/24/11)

Earthquake and tsunami in Japan: The Five College Center for East Asian Studies offers links to information and relief efforts (page created 3/15/11)

John Connolly presents 2011 Jackie Pritzen Lecture (page created 3/14/11)

Science magazine senior editor to speak at Mount Holyoke (page created 3/14/11)

Five Colleges’ top student poets share their work at the ninth-annual PoetryFest (page created 3/14/11)

Five Colleges awarded European Union grant to reconnect communities with Connecticut River (page created 1/31/11)

"Climate Change Avatars" subject of Five College sustainability lecture (page created 1/26/11)

Physicist, anthropologist join the ranks of Five College 40th Anniversary Professors (page created 12/17/10)

January Term 2011 at the Five Colleges (page created 12/28/10)

Five College 40th Anniversary Professor presents a book that is part history, part biography, part love story (page created 11/24/10)

Race, class, gender and religion focus of Five College Days of Dialogue 2010 (page created 10/4/10)

Constitution Day at the Five Colleges 2010 (page created 9/14/10)

Five College Courses Give Students a Chance to "Get Out of the Smith Bubble" (link opens in new window)

Five Colleges, Inc. sponsors second Intergroup Dialogue Training Institute (page updated 7/23/10)

Five College student presentations (last updated 7/7/10)

Five Colleges picks new director of Center for East Asian Studies (page created 6/25/10)

Neal Abraham addresses commencement at Williston Northampton School. Read it here. (page created 6/17/10)

A Taste of Amherst: 6/17-20/10 (links to outside Web site)

Happy 40th birthday, Hampshire! Join the celebration. (link opens in new window; events took place 6/11-13/10)

2009-2010

Five College H1N1 influenza update

Mount Holyoke picks a leader: Lynn Pasquerella (MHC '80) to become 18th president (links to outside Web site)

Experts on Afghan music, culture and censorship coming to Five College area (posted 2/12/10)

Eighth-Annual Five College Student PoetryFest (last updated 2/10/10)

Five Colleges names Food Bank CFO as its new treasurer (posted 1/5/10)

Five College’s Abraham to speak to area business leaders (links to outside Web site)

Five College 40th Anniversary Professor honored: Smith College’s Ileana Streinu recognized for hergroundbreaking mathematical research (links to outside article)

Five College campuses take action against climate change (also see the Five College 350 site) (posted 10/16/09)

Race, class, gender and religion focus of Five College Day of Dialogue (also see an article about the Intergroup Dialogue Initiative) (updated 10/13/09)

Museums10 featured in BusinessWest magazine (links to outside article)

2008-2009

Five Colleges to celebrate new music with three-day festival (posted 8/28/09)

Five Colleges, Inc. selects DePauw Executive Vice President as next leader

Amherst named top North American College town

Michael Klare on ABC News's Earth 2100 (posted 6/2/09)

Five College student presentations (posted 5/26/09)

Commencement 2009 (posted 5/11/09)

Five College Multicultural Theater presents WORD! 2009 (posted 4/8/09)

Five College students organizing conference to discuss national issue: drinking on campuses (posted 4/6/09)

Speakers on human rights, politics in Africa featured in Five Colleges series (posted 3/24/09)

Going Green: The Five College Annual Report is now available in electronic form only. (PDF) (posted 3/20/09)

Black History Month 2009 at the Five Colleges (original page last modified 2/6/09)

Five College Opera Project presents a classic and a modern masterpiece (posted 2/2/09)

Seventh-Annual Five College Student PoetryFest (posted 2/2/09)

Lorna Peterson receives lifetime achievement award for work at Five Colleges, Inc. (posted 10/31/08)

Search committee formed to pick new Five College executive director (posted 6/19/08)

New 2008-2009 Five College Courses (posted 8/22/08)

Summering in the Valley 2008: A Sampling of Summer Events on and around the Campuses (posted 5/15/08)

2007-2008

Commencement 2008 (posted 5/5/08)

Lorna Peterson, longtime head of Five Colleges, Inc., to retire (posted 4/18/08)

Concerts by the Five College Early Music Program offer a glimpse into the past (posted 4/14/08)

Lecture investigates the impact of film on East German history (posted 4/10/08)

Tony Lake to Speak at Model UN Conference (posted 3/25/08)

Bamako conference takes on globalization (posted 3/4/08)

Five College Jazz Festival wows crowds (posted 2/26/08)

Student Poets captivate Five College community (posted 2/26/08)

Five College Multicultural Theater presents WORD! 2008 (posted 2/26/08)

Five College conference features celebrated film rebuking international lending policies in Africa (posted 2/15/08)

Five College Jazz Festival offers something for everyone (posted 2/14/08)

Vagina Monologues presented at Five Colleges (posted 2/12/08)

Black History Month 2008 at the Five Colleges (last revised 2/6/08)

Sixth Annual Five College Student PoetryFest (posted 1/29/08)

On January 31, 2008, member campuses of Five Colleges will particpate in Focus the Nation, a national teach-in on global warming solutions (posted 1/17/08)

January Term 2008 at the Five Colleges (posted 12/11/07)

Legislative Breakfast Explores Five Colleges’ Impact on Regional Economy (posted 12/10/07)

Five Colleges Brings Broadband to Western Massachusetts Towns (posted 11/13/07)

Five College Africa Day Celebration Includes Drumming, Dancing, Discussion and Food (posted 11/13/07)

Five College WORD! 2008 Workshops and Festival (posted 11/7/07)

Museums10 Presents Books to Blogs and Back (posted 10/30/07)

Museums10 Presents Books Out Loud Weekend October 11-14, 2007 (posted 10/02/07)

Museums10 to Launch BookMarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book (posted 8/24/07)

New Five College Sound Designer Comes to the Valley an Obie Award Winner (posted 6/29/07)

Five Colleges Appoints New Communications Director (posted 6/5/07)

2006-2007

A Sampling of Summer Events on and around the Campuses (posted 5/31/07)

Five College Student Film Festival: Screening of Winning Films (posted 5/3/07)

Classics Seniors Present Their Theses and Independent Projects (posted 5/3/07)

The Five Colleges Complete $3.6 Million Fiber Network; Teaching, Research and Local Communities to Benefit (posted 5/1/07)

Museums10 and Veridian Village at Hampshire College Announce Partnership, Shared Commitment to Lifelong Learning (posted 4/26/07)

Commencement 2007 (posted 4/24/07)

Celebrating the Completion of the Five College Fiber Optic Network (posted 4/20/07)

Five Colleges Responds to the Virginia Tech Tragedy (posted 4/18/07)

Showcasing Student Work, Spring 2007 (posted 4/17/07)

Western Massachusetts Emergency Readiness Drill (posted 4/6/07)

Five College Ethnomusicology Student Symposium Features Talks on Street Musicians in Cuba and a West African Community in the Five College Area (posted 4/11/07)

Five College Fiber Optic Network: Building the Future (Page created 11/28/05, last edited 3/14/06)

The Librarian and the President (posted 2/20/07)

Fifth Annual Five College Student PoetryFest (posted 1/29/07)

Black History Month 2007 Events (posted 1/22/07)

January Term 2007! (posted 12/11/06)

105,201 People Decided to GoDutch! (posted 10/25/06)

Five College Africa Day: Come Celebrate, Learn, and Help a Child Heal (posted 10/8/06)

Public School Partnership Active in Two Grants with Area Schools (posted 10/02/06)

Welcome to a Forward-Looking New Library Catalog (posted 10/2/06)

New Grant Supports Course in Media Arabic (posted 10/2/06)

Physics Chanteuse to Perform at Mount Holyoke College (posted 9/19/06)

New PVTA and UMass Transit Buses Strengthen Service (posted 8/28/06)

Five Colleges, Incorporated Welcomes New Development Officer (posted 7/11/06)

2005-2006

Historic Deerfield Events: Summer 2006 (posted 6/22/06)

GoDutch! Officially Blooms in Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley (posted 3/22/06)

Five College Choral Groups to Perform Verdi’s Requiem with the Springfield Symphony April 2 (posted 3/17/06)

Two Five College 40th Anniversary Professors to Give 2006 Jackie M. Pritzen Lectures (posted 3/10/06)

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Is Featured Speaker for 75th Anniversary of Five College Chemistry Lecture Series (posted 3/10/06)

Five College WORD! Pays Tribute to August Wilson (posted 3/1/06)

Fourth-Annual Five College Student PoetryFest (posted 2/15/06)

Museums10's GoDutch! Receives Grant of $50,000 from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (posted 2/14/06)

Black History Month 2006 at the Five Colleges (posted 2/7/06)

The Inaugural Class: Five College 40th Anniversary Professors (last updated 12/15/05)

January Term 2006 at the Five Colleges (posted 11/06)

Winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics Is Featured Speaker for Five College Lecture Series (posted 11/23/05)

Two for One: Five College Opera Cast for Unique February Production of La Liberazione di Ruggiero and L'Enfant et les Sortileges (posted 11/15/05)

Largest Number of Joint Appointees Ever (posted 10/28/05)

Museums10 Launches New Web Site: www.museums10.org (posted 10/10/05)

High School Counselors in New York and Long Island: Meet the Five Colleges in Your Area 11/21/05 or 11/22/05 (posted 9/30/05)

Constitution Day at the Five Colleges (last updated 9/14/05)

Five College Responses to Katrina: How to Help (last updated 9/9/05)

Five College Counselor Colloquy and Campus Tours, 10/26-28/05 (posted 5/26/05)

2004-2005

Five Colleges Seeks Staff Assistant, Coordinator of Recruitment Outreach, and Recycling Manager

Historic Deerfield and UMass Amherst Collaborate on Archaeological Dig (posted 7/19/05)

A Sampling of Summer Events on and around the Campuses (posted 05/25/05)

Five College Center for the Study of World Languages Garners Top MERLOT Award (posted 5/18/05)

Grant Enriches the Study of Africa across the Curriculum (posted 5/18/05)

New Mellon Grant Supports Joint Faculty (posted 4/29/05)

Hampshire Names Ralph J. Hexter Fifth President (link opens in new window)

Student Research and Student Films Featured in April 2005 (last update 4/15/05)

2005 Historic Deerfield Program Schedule (posted 3/31/05)

Museums Group Launches New Name, Logo, and Major Cultural Tourism Initiative for 2006 (posted 3/31/05 )

Playwright Susan Yankowitz to Speak About the Legacy of Joseph Chaikin (posted 3/8/05)

Post-Colonial and Feminist Scholarship after 9-11 (posted 2/24/05)

Third-Annual Five College PoetryFest (posted 2/16/05)

WORD! 2005: A Festival of Political Performance (posted 2/16/05)

Black History Month 2005 at the Five Colleges (posted 2/3/05)

Symposium Series: Slavery and Its Legacy (posted 1/26/05)

Eve Beglarian, Five College Visiting Composer (posted 1/14/05)

Music and Dance in Old Deerfield, January 16, 2005 (posted 1/4/05)

Spring 2005 courses containing a component of Community Based Learning or Service Learning [link opens new window]

Winter Hours at Historic Deerfield (posted 12/31/04)

January Term 2005 at the Five Colleges (posted 12/07/04)

Isaac Babel Festival (posted 11/30/04)

Five College Dance at 25: Celebrating the Past, Welcoming the Future (updated 10/13/05)

The Five Colleges Vote! (posted 9/29/04)

A Who's Who of Who's New at the Campuses this Year (posted 9/2/04)

Minuteman Express Rides Again, After All (posted 9/1/04)

The Five Colleges Work in Local Communities (posted 08/24/04)

Five College Libraries Share in Grant to Develop Archival Toolkit (posted 8/20/04)

New Joint Positions [2004-2005] Fulfill First Phase of Directors’ Initiative (posted 6/28/04)

Photographs on Our Homepage (posted 6/25/04)

Academic Calendar for 2004-2005

2003-2004

Found Roaming in the Backyard at Five Colleges (posted 5/26/04)

UMass Amherst Appoints Charlena Seymour Provost

Five Colleges Join Area Communities in Emergency Planning Excercise (posted 5/26/04)

Academic Career Network Membership Increases (posted 5/12/04)

Summering in the Valley (posted 5/12/04)

Building a Fiber Optic Network 4/30/04)

Photos from the Five College World Music Festival 2004 (posted 4/24/04)

New Five College administrative position, African Scholars Program (posted 4/13/04)

Submit Your Film to the Five College Film Festival (posted 4/12/04)

The Sounds of Music: Five College World Music Festival (posted 4/8/04)

The Sporting Woman: The Female Athlete in American Culture (posted 4/1/04)

Hampshire College President Gregory S. Prince, Jr. Announces His Retirement (posted 4/1/04)

Light in the Landscape: Photographs by Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin at Mount Holyoke Art Museum (posted 3/21/04)

Guthrie Theater Residency (posted 3/1/04)

2004 Jackie Pritzen Lecture (posted 3/1/04)

New Academic Career Network launches Web site (archived 2/19/04)

Winter in Our Backyard (posted 2/5/04)

Black History Month at the Five Colleges (posted 1/30/04)

New Mellon Grant for Cooperation in Administration (posted 1/25/04)

Five College Historians Featured in Historic Deerfield's Lecture Series on 1704 (posted 1/21/04)

Grant to Five College Public School Partnership Aims to Create A Learning Community (posted 1/21/04)

Staying Warm with Spanish During January Term (posted 1/16/04)

January Term 2004 at the Five Colleges (posted 12/5/03)

Second Annual Five College Dance Party Coming Up (posted 10/31/03)

Five College Admission Directors Host College Counselors (posted 10/30/03)

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder: A Cosmic Mystery Story (posted 10/13/03)

Two New Positions in Asian/Pacific/American Studies (posted 10/9/03)

Amherst College Safer Rooms (posted 9/19/03)

In Record Time: UMass Amherst Library Collection Goes Underground (posted 7/22/03)

New Policy for Five College Bus Riders: Show ID (posted 7/22/03)

Five Colleges, Incorporated Appoints New Treasurer/Business Manager (posted 6/22/03)

Grant Supports Independent Language Instruction in Arabic, Farsi, Georgian, Hindi, and Turkish (posted 6/22/03)

2002-2003

News of the Museums of the Five College Area (posted 5/22/03)

Five Colleges, Incorporated Appoints New Treasurer/Business Manager (posted 5/7/03)

News of the Museums of the Five College Area (posted 4/22/03)

Five College Ethnomusicology Student Symposium (posted 4/22/03)

Amherst College Names a New President (opens in new window; posted 4/4/03)

Five College On-line Calendar of Events Replaces Printed Calendar (posted 4/2/03)

First-Ever Five College Dance Party (posted 4/2/03)

Early Music Events for April and May, 2003 (posted 4/1/03)

Five College/Public School Partnership News: Bellamy Middle School Students Learn about Nanotechnology in UMass Labs (posted 4/1/03)

Five College Architectural Studies Project Hosts Community Forum (posted 4/1/03)

Amherst College Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations seeks full-time lecturer in Japanese (posted 3/25/03)

Colleges Join Amherst in Amicus Brief Supporting Affirmative Action (posted 2/20/03)

Grant From Mellon Foundation Supports Five College Initiatives on Two National Issues: The "Graying" Of The Faculty and Dual Career Couples (posted 1/10/03)

2001-2002

The Emperor's New Frontiers: Terrorism and the Borders of Civil Society (posted 3/8/02)

Samuel Adler Residency and Concert (posted 2/28/02)

Gary Orfield and Juliet Garcia on Affirmative Action (posted 2/28/02)

Opening the Gates to African Studies Residencies (posted 1/14/02)

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