“Reading Is Breathing In, Writing Is Breathing Out”

December 8, 2009 e-News

e-News 12/08: Pam Allyn '84

In this month's Amherst Reads feature, renowned literacy expert Pam Allyn ’84 spoke with children’s book editor Phoebe Yeh ’84 about the power of reading aloud, a balanced diet of reading and their shared conclusion that most kids do judge books by their covers.

 

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Committed to Change

September 29, 2009 e-News

e-News 9/29: Sanderson + Rivkin

Professors Catherine Sanderson, an expert on health and behavior in teenagers, and Steven Rivkin, who studies the economics of education, have joined forces on the Town of Amherst’s school committee. They spoke recently about their service, teaching and town-gown relations.

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Into the World

October 15, 2009 e-News

e-News 10/13: CCE

Amherst’s Center for Community Engagement funded public service internships this past summer for 150 Amherst students in 22 countries, 17 states and Washington, D.C. Some of the interns—including Saumitra Thakur ’11, who traveled with Neil Mehta ’11 to India—sent Amherst magazine photos from their travels.

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Rules for Old Men Waiting

September 16, 2009 e-News

Throughout his career, former Amherst president Peter Pouncey collected about 2,000 pages of his own stories and sketches in a wooden chest. He spoke recently about the now-published writings with fellow author Scott Turow ’70 for Amherst Reads.

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Deconstructing the Vanilla Milkshake

August 18, 2009 e-News

Neuroscience professor J.P. Baird and trustee David A. Kessler ’73, M.D., former head of the FDA and author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, discuss how social norms, aggressive advertising and a conspiring food industry have contributed to the nation’s expanding waistline. Listen to the interview online for Amherst Reads.

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Remembering Kenneth H. Bacon '66

August 18, 2009 e-News

Bacon, a former journalist, Pentagon spokesman, advocate for displaced people everywhere and trustee emeritus, died Aug. 15. Share a memory of the man who was also an Amherst trustee from 1986 to 1997 and president of his class from 1976 to 1981.

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Flowers on the Water

June 11, 2009 e-News

 

The USS Grunion’s official designation was “overdue, presumed lost” for more than 60 years—until the captain’s son John Abele ’59 and his brothers decided to find the submarine. The latest issue of Amherst magazine tells the Abeles’ extraordinary story.

 

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Magazine Mea Culpa

May 13, 2009 e-News

While the Amherst-Williams baseball rivalry feels like it’s a quarter of a millenium old, the first game was actually played a mere 150 years ago, despite what it says on the new Amherst cover, corrected online.