Website Display Components | Website & Digital Support

For Amherst College Website Editors

If you’ve looked around the College website, you’ll have seen quite a variety of designed elements and interactive displays. If you’re creating webpages on Amherst.edu, contact Communications for help. We have lots of options! Some of our components are specialized, while others are used frequently across the site. We can advise you on which display components will best suit your content and we’ll set them up for you, allowing you to edit as needed.

Featured

Sep 4

Featured Event Callout

7:30 PM ·Johnson Chapel

Formatted Article with Image

new option under “flexible article”

February 4, 2022

This new display option combines the ease of a pre-formatted component with the flexibility of a regular article. Upload an image and it will automatically appear in the upper left. (Don’t have a photo? See Image Resources.) The subheading will appear in “Ice Age Blue” under the main title. Add a date if your post is a timely announcement or news item.

You can make your body text as short or as long as you wish. To break up long text, add subheadings and bulleted or numbered lists.

You can also add up to four buttons, which will appear at the bottom.

action button

Flexible Callout

Widely used across the College website, the Flexible Callout requires an image and can have up to four buttons.

Link 1 Link 2

Video Callout

October 9, 2019

This callout holds a video hosted at YouTube. Contact us in Communications for help displaying your video on the website.

Announcement Component

This is the “Flexible Article: Announcement” display component. The image is optional. Use this component for brief and timely announcements with links to more information.

Optional Link

Slideshow Gallery

Our slideshow gallery, below, can hold any number of slides. Each image can be opened in “lightbox” view, to be viewed at full size. Captions are optional. The slideshow can be set to auto-advance through the slides (a pause button allows the viewer to stop the auto-advance).

Department Highlights

The Major

Amherst Biology majors study introductory biology, chemistry and physics, and then have a wide choice of upper-level biology courses.

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Students consulting with their professor

Honors Research

Honors majors devote half of their academic effort during senior year to research. The resulting thesis is often the basis of their first scientific publication.

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Summer Research

Students have many opportunities to join active research labs over the summer.

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Monday Seminars

Students and faculty gather weekly to hear and take part in presentations on biology research.

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Our Alumni

We have a great track record of sending students to the best graduate and professional schools in the country.

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Biology Courses

Current Courses

BIOL 181

Adaptation and the Organism

Description

Relate and compare characteristics of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria, examining how and why these organisms have arrived at various solutions to life's problems. .

BIOL 201

Disease Ecology

Description

Apply the principles to the study of infectious diseases in natural populations, focusing on deriving important questions and the variety of approaches to address them.

BIOL 371

Molecular Genetics W/Lab

Description

A study of the molecular mechanisms underlying the transmission and expression of genes. DNA replication and recombination, RNA synthesis and processing, and protein synthesis and modification will be examined.

Featured Article

Microbotryum on Dianthus — This graphic, provided by Professor Hood, features a plot of mating type chromosomes of the fungus.

Fungal Model to Shed New Light on Human DNA

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Professor Michael Hood a $444,651 grant to investigate the problem of chromosome degeneration.

Expandable Article

This component expands to show more text, which you can format as you wish. The image is optional. You can add links as you wish. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam volutpat in risus et volutpat. Cras cursus, leo sit amet rutrum elementum, risus ante placerat felis, sit amet finibus sapien nibh ut orci. Fusce mollis et arcu in ornare. Nullam blandit in sem id laoreet. Sed ullamcorper semper magna ac maximus. Sed ornare justo arcu, sit amet pulvinar ligula hendrerit a. Duis ultrices mauris metus, in suscipit elit fringilla iaculis. Pellentesque turpis risus, vulputate vitae ornare eget, tristique non velit. Phasellus consectetur purus diam, a efficitur orci tempus at. Aenean ac commodo justo. Integer vel convallis nunc, at fringilla ligula. Donec porttitor dolor ut iaculis luctus. Fusce elit enim, malesuada et orci ac, lacinia mollis nulla. Praesent eget quam finibus, congue nunc nec, ultricies lacus. Nulla nibh felis, interdum at viverra eget, pulvinar ac magna. Donec at pharetra ipsum, eu ultricies risus. Mauris efficitur augue at eros porta semper. Aliquam mollis semper lorem vel fermentum. Morbi fringilla, ipsum ut iaculis elementum, massa magna convallis augue, eget venenatis erat ipsum id augue. Nullam dignissim non tortor id gravida. Donec ultrices felis ante, et interdum sem tempor eget.

Expandable Article—Compact

This is the compact version of the expandable article, especially useful for FAQs.

More text appears when expanding the article. You can add as much text as you want here, including a long answer to a frequently asked question, or the full text of a video transcript.

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