Professor Catherine Ciepiela Publishes Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

Submitted on Thursday, 6/20/2019, at 2:45 PM

when trees write                                                                                    если деревья пишут,
it’s to the white flowers                                                                         то белым цветам,
that walked the garden                                                                          что ходили по саду. 

when birds do                                                                                        если птицы,
it’s of what can’t be sung                                                                      о том, чего спеть нельзя.

lumps do not speak,                                                                              комья не говорят,
in flowerpots                                                                                          по цветочным горшкам
they have buried silence.                                                                       зарыли молчание.

 —Anna Glazova                                                                                   —Анна Глазова

 

Five Faculty Members Awarded Tenure

Submitted on Thursday, 5/19/2016, at 12:42 PM

February 12, 2014

At its regular winter meeting in January, the Amherst College Board of Trustees voted to approve the recommendations of President Martin and the Committee of Six that each of these five faculty members be awarded tenure at the rank of associate professor, beginning July 1.

Renowned Russian Literature Translators to Speak at Amherst College March 5

Submitted on Monday, 6/16/2014, at 1:11 PM

AMHERST, Mass. -- Amherst College will host “In Translation,” a conversation with world-renowned Russian literature translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on Wednesday, March 5, at 4:30 p.m. in the Friendly Reading Room of the school’s Frost Library. The event, which is part of the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

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Biologist, students use hummingbirds, flowers to unwrap evolution’s mysteries

Submitted on Thursday, 3/6/2014, at 11:07 AM

By Peter Rooney

In a jungle-like enclosure the size of a basketball court on one of the Caribbean’s most ecologically diverse islands, Ethan Temeles, Amherst College's Thomas B. Walton Jr. Memorial Professor of Biology, has devised an audacious experiment he hopes will help answer one of evolution’s most vexing questions once and for all.