In a piece describing Amherst as a school that "has aggressively recruited poor and middle-class students in recent years," Tom Parker asserted the importance of creative outreach in encouraging high-achieving, low-income students to apply.
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Matthew Schulkind, associate professor of psychology, will give a talk titled "Memory: Why You're Always Right and They're Always Wrong" on March 22 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Register today!
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A stately camperdown elm, more than a century old, was moved just 90 feet to the northeast to make way for a new track, and its rescue was made possible by the anonymous donors who are supporting the renovations to Pratt Field. The relocation was also covered by the The Daily Hampshire Gazette and local NBC and ABC TV news affiliates.
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On March 4, students, faculty and staff enjoyed refreshments and activities as they toured the new and improved Keefe Campus Center.
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Reunion includes a conversation with President Biddy Martin and more than 100 programs, including faculty lectures and class sponsored events. A preliminary schedule of events is now online and will be updated frequently!
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The New York Times recently caught up with famed former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau '41. He's teamed up with two other prominent former prosecutors to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case of William Ernest Kuenzel, who has been on death row in Alabama for 24 years. For more on Morgenthau's long and storied career, see an award-winning profile, by Rand Richards Cooper '80, from the Winter 2011 issue of Amherst magazine.
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Uhuru Kenyatta, a controversial figure in his native country, defeated the incumbent prime minister in national elections on March 9.
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It's not often that a professor devotes an entire course to a single, hands-on project. It's even less often that a class revolves around an intercollegiate competition. But in the fall, eight students and an economics professor spent an entire semester researching the state of the current macroeconomy and producing a comprehensive proposal regarding federal monetary policy for a high-profile event in Boston.
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When Jessica Mestre '10, student life fellow for the Dean of Students' Office, determined that the sense of collective Amherst belonging could be stronger, she champion a series of activities that would bring together students, faculty and staff in a different way. The inaugural event in her new "Community Hour" initiative took place on Feb. 23 in Stirn Auditorium with an hour-long show by the student comedy group Mr. Gad's House of Improv.
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