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Emily Gold Boutilier
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Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
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Katherine Duke ’05
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Katharine Whittemore
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Michael Reid
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Bill Herz ’79 and his family logged a thousand miles across Poland to entertain a thousand Ukrainians. A writer came along for the ride.
A one-time editor of The Amherst Student is now president of his alma mater. Michael A. Elliott ’92 answers our questions about who he is, what he believes and why he came back.
In eight interviews over 14 years, this biographer sought to understand an optimistic, vulnerable, complicated man.
Two Mead Art Museum acquisitions, five lessons from psychology, 485 new students and more.
A profile of Gustavo Dudamel; David Quinn ’82’s take on Doctor Strange; two Amherst alumni act in Dark Winds; Imagine a City with Mark Vanhoenacker ’96
Amherst magazine won a 2021 silver award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for best general interest magazine, and Amherst contributing writer Naomi Shulman’s article His Biggest Fear is We’ll Go Back to Normal won a 2021 CASE silver award for in the profile writing category.
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