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Editor
Emily Gold Boutilier
(413) 542-8275
magazine@amherst.edu

Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
(413) 542-2031

Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi

Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05

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Catching Fire
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College Row

News and Views from Campus

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Education as Antidote

In her annual commencement address, President Biddy Martin told the newest alumni that these times require the best of their liberal arts educations.

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Cooke Prize

Amherst Recognized with $1 Million Cooke Prize

The College will use it to close “invisible opportunity gaps.”

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Before Materpiece Theater

Before Masterpiece Theatre

If you were watching television on the evening of April 3, 1949, chances are you were choosing between one of two shows: WATV’s broadcast of a western film or NBC’s broadcast of Julius Caesar, performed by Amherst students at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

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Begging to Be Made Whole

Begging to Be Made Whole

What does a curator do with a half-missing work of art? That was the challenge facing Bradley Bailey, former curatorial fellow at the College’s Mead Art Museum.

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Being Unafraid

Being Unafraid

Catching up with three of the first nine women to graduate from Amherst.

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Hearing From Students

Hearing From Students

For the new Amherst Voices video series, President Biddy Martin sat down with graduating members of the class of 2016. Here's some of what they told her.

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Javier Corrales

LGBT Rights in Latin America

A Q&A with Javier Corrales, the Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and co-director of the LGBT Rights in the Americas Timeline, an Amherst College-based digital history initiative.

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How To Make Sense of U.S. Politics

How to Make Sense of U.S. Politics

How can alumni deepen their own understanding this election season?

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Publishing Arabic Voices

Publishing Arabic Voices

With its new issue, Amherst's literary magazine brings once-inaccessible writing to an English-speaking audience.

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Paul Smith

Two Alumni Join Board

The new trustees are an ’82 psychologist and a ’76 lawyer.

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Beyond Campus

Alumni in the World

A New Way To Pray

A New Way to Pray

A Reform rabbi led a sweeping rewrite of the High Holiday prayer book. SECTION MENU

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Another Reason to Check Your Kid's Phone

Another Reason to Check Your Kid's Phone

In “Does This Tweet Make Me Look Fat?” a psychologist studied how social media can stigmatize weight.

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Beyond High School

Beyond High School

When a disillusioned teacher chose to leave the system, he created a way for teens to leave it, too.

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Immersed in International Law

Immersed in International Law

A lawyer will head to The Hague to clerk for a United Nations judge.

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The Puget Sound is the New Hudson River

The Puget Sound is the New Hudson River

Seattle is not known for its rich art heritage. One collector aims to change that.

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Amherst Creates

Arts News and Reviews

The Nazi Hunters Book Jacket

Book Review: No Happy End

If the stories of Nazi hunters have a heroic ring, they also beg for an unromantic telling.

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Catastrophic Happiness book jacket

Book Review: That Kind of Mother

Parenting is hard. Most parents books make it harder. This one will make you feel less alone.

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Life of the World to Come book jacket

Interview: Not a Great Love Story

Working backward from a "fever-dream-ending," a former Obama administration speechwriter wrote a novel.

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TV Review: Anita Hill Story

TV Review: The Legacy of Anita Hill

HBO takes on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.

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David Rimmer

Transferring In

A local townsperson wanders into reunion weekend at a small college, falls in love with the wife of a ’71 alum, and keeps coming back to the reunion over the next 75 years.

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Special Section

Creating Connections

The Octagon

Your Favorite Places

When alumni made gifts to the Annual Fund in June, we asked them to name their favorite spot on campus and promised to have students send photos of those places.

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Annual Fund statistics

Thank You from the Annual Fund

All gifts, of all amounts, help Amherst students and faculty.

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John Kirkpatrick ’51

Six Decades of Support

It began with a $5 gift after graduating. It continues with a transformative investment today.

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Larry Kahn ’68 P’97

Bringing in the Light

At the new Science Center, the Larry and Susan Kahn Winter Garden will forge connections with the physical landscape.

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