Women's Basketball Rewrites the Record Books
With their 30th consecutive road win, the Mammoths have set the new NCAA Division III record and made it official: No place is safe for opponents of Amherst women’s basketball.
President Martin Urges Solution for Dreamers
In letters to U.S. Sens. Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren, and to U.S. Rep. James McGovern, President Biddy Martin urged Congress to address the “urgent problem created by” the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “The time to act is now,” she wrote.
Take Our Art History Challenge!
The Mead Art Museum’s collection includes more than 19,000 artifacts representing thousands of years of history. Amherst magazine presents three of them and challenges readers to identify three key facts about each. You’ll also find answers to the previous issue’s psychology contest—and learn which psychology question stumped all who entered.
Her Patients Inspired a Novel
When publishers rejected her first manuscript, pediatric cardiologist Ismée (Bartels) Williams ’95 changed course. “I realized I needed to tell a different story,” she writes, “one reflective of my experience being raised by mis abuelos while my parents worked, and of being a physician caring for Spanish-speaking families in Washington Heights.”
Authentically Fake TV
“Comrade Detective (Amazon Studios) is an entirely original meta-narrative from creators Brian Gatewood ’00 and Alessandro Tanaka,” writes Josh Bell ’02 in this review of a buddy-cop parody set in Cold War Romania.
Remembering Adm. Stansfield Turner ’45
Amherst mourns the loss of the former CIA director, a man who once wrote that “simple solutions, even when possible, are seldom useful.” Turner died Jan.18 at age 94.
From the Archives: An MLK Recording
Amherst students first heard this broadcast of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “The Summer of Our Discontent” in 1964. Once thought to be completely lost, a recording of the speech was rediscovered in the College archives in 2015. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we present it here. Listen to the speech.
Reunion Registration Is Open
Rediscover campus and enjoy inspiring talks and tours, lively entertainment and the company of classmates, May 23-27. Festivities begin Wednesday, May 23. Learn more and register now.