Decisions Points
by Katharine Whittemore
Students role-played how to handle terrifying scenarios—with a professor who was on the National Security Council.
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Reading Tea Leaves
by Katharine Whittemore
Imagine spending an entire semester on a single ritual: the Japanese tea ceremony.
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When Freezers Go Green
by Rachael Hanley
Jess Martin, the administrative director of the new science building, and Laura Draucker, director of sustainability, spent the summer quietly replacing aging, electricity-hogging science fridges and freezers
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We'll Always Have Paris
by Bill Sweet
Amherst has acquired the archives of the small but influential Paris Press, which published groundbreaking, overlooked literature by women.
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A Pilgrimage to Frost
by Bill Sweet
2,600 volumes have established the library as a destination for scholars of Native American history, culture and tradition.
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Their Summer Vacation
by Bill Sweet
Without leaving campus, undergraduate fellows earned $440 a week plus housing to study everything from dining hall lines to exoplanets to post-election Kenya.
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The Taste of Resilience
by Chipo Dendere
Dendere, visiting assistant professor of political science, reflects upon what she loves about Zimbabwe, her homeland.
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Czechoslovakia, 1968
by Katharine Whittemore
Fifty years ago, Professor Pavel Machala lived through the reformist Prague Spring, and watched the Soviet tanks come in to crush it.
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Q&A: Katharine Fretwell ’81
by Katharine Whittemore
Katharine Whittemore interviewed Katharine Fretwell who retired this summer after 30 years in admission at Amherst.