[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292051","attributes":{"alt":"The Common","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"common.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547259","title":"","width":"130"}}]]The release on May 11 of the seventh issue of The Common, the rapidly growing print and online literary magazine based at the college, marked increased institutional support for the magazine.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"291299","attributes":{"alt":"Biddy Martin","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"Biddy.jpg","height":"150","nid":"545559","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Other honorees at UNC's commencement on May 11 - which drew an audience of some 30,000 - included former North Carolina Gov. Beverly Eaves Perdue, best-selling author Armistead Maupin and pioneering historian Anne Firor Scott.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292055","attributes":{"alt":"Yun (Nancy) Tang '14","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"tang.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547263","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Yun (Nancy) Tang '14, a political science major whose senior honors thesis looks at China's one-child policy through the lens of feminist theory, plans to use the one-year fellowship to work with the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on the political economy of Southeast Asia.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292048","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"aftergraduation.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547256","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Research, teaching, business, exploration and more: Members of the Class of 2014 discuss their plans.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292052","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"fringe.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547260","title":"","width":"130"}}]]The Arts at Amherst event, which took place May 1 to 4, featured music, paintings, performance art and other creative works from faculty, staff and students.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292063","attributes":{"alt":"Tracy Jarrett '11","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"jarrett.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547288","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Tracy Jarrett '11 wrote about her passion for documenting the lives of women - particularly mothers - living with HIV in an article posted on NBCNews.com on Mother's Day.
May 15, 2014 e-news
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292056","attributes":{"alt":"","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"testfilm.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547264","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Chris Mason Johnson '95 is the writer, director and producer of Test, an astutely crafted drama set in San Francisco of 1985 that portrays this exciting and harrowing era as a young dancer confronts the challenges of being an understudy in a modern dance company.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"290218","attributes":{"alt":"Amherst reunion logo","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"Reunion-Logo.jpg","height":"150","nid":"543202","title":"","width":"130"}}]]Even if you can't make it back to campus for Reunion, you can view a live stream of President Martin's conversation with alumni on Saturday, May 31, at 11 a.m. EDT. Want more? RSVP for Professor Kevin Sweeney's live-streamed Virtual Lecture on "Guns, Militias and the Second Amendment" on Thursday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Submit questions for both events through alumseries@amherst.edu or #amherstreunion.
May 15, 2014 e-News
[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"292049","attributes":{"alt":"Alumni mobile app","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"app.jpg","height":"150","nid":"547257","title":"","width":"130"}}]]If you haven't done it yet, download the app during Reunion (May 28-June 1) and you will be entered into the drawing for a gift certificate. You don't even need to be at Reunion to be entered. Use the app to connect securely with alumni through LinkedIn.
May 15, 2014 e-News