News & Publications July 9, 2015

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318471","attributes":{"alt":"sarat.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"sarat.png","height":"150","nid":"610045","title":"sarat.png","width":"130"}}]]Twice in One Case: Pair of Supreme Court Dissents Cite Books by Professor — Few faculty members ever see their scholarship appear in a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Rarer still: to have separate books by the same professor cited on the same day, in the same case, by two different justices.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318466","attributes":{"alt":"Abiodun_Rowland_267x400.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"Abiodun_Rowland_267x400.png","height":"150","nid":"610040","title":"Abiodun_Rowland_267x400.png","width":"130"}}]]Seeking the African in African Art — In a book about Yoruba art and language, Rowland Abiodun, the John C. Newton Professor of the History of Art and Black Studies, asserts that Western art history principles are not applicable to the study of African art.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318469","attributes":{"alt":"monet.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"monet.png","height":"150","nid":"610043","title":"monet.png","width":"130"}}]]A Masterpiece Returns — Amherst's Monet is back at the Mead Art Museum after a yearlong getaway to Oklahoma and Texas.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318468","attributes":{"alt":"bird.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"bird.png","height":"150","nid":"610042","title":"bird.png","width":"130"}}]]For the Birds: Students Study Parasites' Effects on Nestlings — Rain or shine, four dedicated student biologists have been spending seven days a week in the College's Wildlife Sanctuary this summer, collecting data on the effects of blood-sucking fly larvae on the growth and health of tree swallow nestlings.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318472","attributes":{"alt":"stephencrump800.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"stephencrump800.png","height":"150","nid":"610046","title":"stephencrump800.png","width":"130"}}]]'94 Musician Featured by All About Jazz — Stephan Crump '94, a Grammy-nominated bassist, is "giving life to the music," according to the highly regarded website.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"318474","attributes":{"alt":"coolidge.png","class":"media-image image-align-left","desc":"coolidge.png","height":"150","nid":"610049","title":"coolidge.png","width":"130"}}]]MLB Team Introduces Calvin Coolidge as Newest "Running President" — A likeness of the country's 30th commander-in-chief, a member of the class of 1895, joined the Washington Nationals' traditional fourth-inning race between the George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft mascots on July 3.

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