The Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives Fund involves three generations of Amherst alumni named Moon and Shogren with a deep concern for the environment and a shared belief in the College’s potential to be a leader in the field.
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Betty and Paul Mayer ’65 flipped the script. They transformed their bequest to establish the Paul J. Mayer, M.D. 1965 and Elizabeth F. Mayer Scholarship Fund into an outright and immediate gift to the College.
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Explore the May 2022 Amherst Reads feature of The Gambler Wife by Andrew D. Kaufman '91.
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Now more than ever, the Amherst community matters. Let’s work together to support career exploration for Amherst students and recent graduates.
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Whether searching for friends in a city you’re visiting, finding an Amherst event in your area or looking for career advice, our alumni are a valuable resource for the entire Amherst community.
An Amherst education doesn’t end at commencement. We’re pleased to offer a variety of in-person and online learning experiences that will give you a lot to consider and discuss.
The Amherst environment fosters lifelong friendships and sparks a deep and persistent desire to learn. Alumni are present in almost every walk of life. Some alumni are or have been prominent on the world scene and many others contribute to society in equally important though less public ways. A liberal arts education prepares students for careers, volunteer activities and individual interests and pursuits that are personally meaningful.
It’s not about what you have done since Amherst, but who you have become.
What’s in a name? For Seoyeon Kim ’21 (김서연), Legal Assistant in the New York office of Sanford Heisler Sharp, who was raised in three different countries, the answer has never been simple.
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With his drums, musician, comedian and social media personality Josh Harmon ’18, intellectualizes what makes us laugh, amassing more than 1 billion views across a variety of social media platforms.
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A book is a common object with the capacity to hold so much of who we are. That’s why professor and artist Sonya Clark ’89 (Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Art and the History of Art) built a project around 272 of them.
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Chloe McKenzie ’14, Founder of the nonprofit BlackFem, set out to study her contentious relationship with wealth. In doing so, she created a term that’s gaining traction.
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