The following is a list of individuals associated with Hampshire College through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff. Notable alumni Academia Alba Arikha, writer, lecturer on creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire and Columbia University Sylvia Bashevkin, Canadian academic and feminist at the University of Toronto, former Principal of University College, Toronto George Bonanno, psychologist, Columbia University Derek Blake Booth, geologist and heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy, University of Washington Heather Boushey, economist, president of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth think tank Cynthia Cattell, space physicist and professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at University of Minnesota Hasok Chang, historian and philosopher of science, University of Cambridge Barry Marc Cohen, art therapist, Diagnostic Drawing Series Phyllis Coley, biologist, University of Utah Concetta DiRusso, biochemist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Paige Fischer, environmental scientist, University of Michigan Vanessa Northington Gamble, physician, professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, chair of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., psychologist and psycholinguist, University of California, Santa Cruz Nancy Grimm, ecologist, Arizona State University Marcia Groszek, mathematician, Dartmouth College Gail Hershatter, historian of Modern China at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Williams College, Guggenheim Fellow Benjamin Mako Hill, technologist, software developer and founding member of Ubuntu and Debian projects, assistant professor in Communication at the University of Washington Sean Hill, neuroscientist, University of Toronto Tom Hull, mathematician and professor, Western New England University Mary James, physicist, Reed College, University of Maryland, College Park Caren Kaplan, feminist theorist, professor of American studies at University of California at Davis, University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University Patricia Klindienst, writer and scholar, American Book Award recipient, Yale University Lucy-Ann McFadden, astronomer and planetary scientist for NASA, founder of the Science, Discovery & the Universe Program at the University of Maryland Jacob Reider, expert in health information technology policy and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology G. Philip Robertson, biologist, Michigan State University David Schimel, research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology; Nobel Peace Prize laureate Timothy Shary, film scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Clark University Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo and University of Toronto, author of The Trouble with Physics Eric Steig, glaciologist and geochemist, professor of Earth and Space sciences at the University of Washington Paul W. Sternberg, biologist,