Saving the Turtles

September 24, 2009

Spotting the brownish-gray and orange shell of the wood turtle in hay fields or along the banks of rivers in Western Massachusetts these days has become an increasingly rare occurrence.

But not if Amherst College can help it.

Amherst College Physics Professor David S. Hall Awarded Three-Year, $469K NSF Grant

September 17, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. – David S. Hall, associate professor of physics at Amherst College, has received a three-year, $469,086 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will support Hall’s studies of gases cooled to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero—the lowest possible temperature in the universe—and will allow him to build on work done by legendary physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in the 1920s.

Memorial Art Display for Renowned Artist Michael Mazur ’57 at the Mead Art Museum Sept. 4 to 6

September 1, 2009
Contact: Karen Cardinal
Accounting, Web and Marketing Manager, Mead Art Museum
413/542-2551

AMHERST, Mass.—From Friday, Sept. 4, through Sunday, Sept. 6, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College will present a special display of art by Michael Mazur, a member of the school’s Class of 1957, in the museum’s Study Room.

Poets Honor Moore, Joan Larkin to Read from Poems From the Women’s Movement at Amherst College Sept. 16

August 27, 2009
Ellen Miller-Mack
ellenmiller-mack@comcast.net

AMHERST, Mass.—On Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Cole Assembly Room of Converse Hall, Amherst College will host a celebration of and reading from the anthology Poems From the Women’s Movement, edited by Honor Moore and published by Library of America, now in its second printing.

Amherst College’s Frost Library to Host Book Launch of Emeritus Physics Prof’s New Book Sept. 18

September 10, 2009                   

AMHERST, Mass.—Amherst College’s Frost Library will host a book launch of emeritus physics professor Robert Romer’s Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts ($22.50, Levellers Press, 2009) in the Friendly Periodicals room on the main floor of the building at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 18.

2009-10 Music at Amherst Chamber Series Launches Sept. 18 to 20 with Bartók Celebration Featuring the Borromeo String Quartet

August 26, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Music at Amherst Chamber Series will open its 2009-10 season with a weekend-long celebration of the string quartets of Béla Bartók from Friday, Sept. 18, to Sunday, Sept. 20.

Amherst College Faultlines Music Festival Begins with Workshop By Acclaimed Saxophonist and Multi-Instrumentalist Sept. 24

Sept. 2, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195


AMHERST, Mass.—The Amherst College Department of Music will kick off the second year of its festival Faultlines: Mapping Jazz in the 21st Century with a performance workshop led by legendary British saxophonist Evan Parker and American multi-instrumentalist Ned Rothenberg from 2 to 3:20 p.m. in Room 7 of the school’s Arms Music Center on Thursday, Sept. 24.

University of Chicago Professor to Deliver Amherst College’s Hugh Hawkins Lecture Sept. 24

August 27, 2009                            
 
AMHERST, Mass.—Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago, will deliver Amherst College’s annual Hugh Hawkins lecture, titled “Between Globalization and Global Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History,” on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall of Amherst College’s Fayerweather Hall.

Faultlines Music Festival to Feature Solo Concert by trumpeter Peter Evans Sept. 26

Sept. 2, 2009
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The yearlong Amherst College Music festival Faultlines: Mapping Jazz in the 21st Century continues with a solo concert by New York trumpet virtuoso Peter Evans at 8pm in the Rotherwas Gallery of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College on Saturday, Sept. 26. 

Emily Dickinson in a Day: Experience all 1,789 Poems in a Marathon Reading at the Emily Dickinson Museum Sept. 26

August 27, 2009
Contact: Donna Abelli
Development and Marketing Manager
413/542-5084

AMHERST, Mass—On Saturday, Sept. 26, Emily Dickinson lovers of all ages are invited to join the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon, a daylong marathon reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson.

Colloquium on the American Founding at Amherst College September 25 and 26

September 24, 2009

AMHERST, Mass. — On Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, the Committee for the American Founding hosted a colloquium at Amherst College featuring renowned figures Richard Epstein, James Parker Hall Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Glen Lewy, national chair of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a member of Amherst’s Class of 1971.

Winners of Mead Art Museum/Fine Arts 2009 Summer Fellowships to Speak about their Experiences Sept. 29

September 17, 2009
Contact: Pamela Russell
Coordinator of College Programs
413/542 8229

AMHERST, Mass.—On Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mead Art Museum’s William Green Study Room, four Amherst College students who received the college’s competitive Mead/Fine Arts Summer Fellowships for 2009 will present brief reports on their varied and rewarding experiences working at arts organizations this summer.