Seminars & Events

"Medical Apartheid Goes Viral: Coronavirus-19 and Race"

Harriet Washington, celebrated science writer and bioethicist presents a seminar as part of the President’s Colloquium on Race and Racism.
Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, and A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind, among other works. She has written widely for popular publications and been published in journals such as Nature, JAMA, The American Journal of Public Health, The Harvard Public Health Review, and many others.
The Presidential Scholars Program brings some of the most distinguished voices in the area of anti-racist scholarship and policy to Amherst for short-term residencies.

Biology Fall Honors Presentations: Week 1
Biology Honors students will present their research plans in the form of a short research presentation.
There will be three Monday seminar sessions from 4:00 - 5:00 PM with five or six presentations at each seminar.
The dates are as follows:

Monday, October 18th

Monday, October 25th

Monday, November 1st

Biology Fall Honors Presentations: Week 2
Biology Honors students will present their research plans in the form of a short research presentation.
There will be three Monday seminar sessions from 4:00 - 5:00 PM with five or six presentations at each seminar.
The dates are as follows:
Monday, October 18th

Monday, October 25th

Monday, November 1st

Biology Fall Honors Presentations: Week 3
Biology Honors students will present their research plans in the form of a short research presentation.
There will be three Monday seminar sessions from 4:00 - 5:00 PM with five or six presentations at each seminar.
The dates are as follows:
Monday, October 18th

Monday, October 25th

Monday, November 1st