The Sounds Behind the Silence
This quintessential liberal-arts story explains how a rising junior blended neuroscience, art, biology, dance, computer data and a trip to Italy.
Min Jin Lee to Give DeMott Lecture
The acclaimed Pachinko author will speak to the new first-year class on Sept. 1 in Johnson Chapel. The talk will be live-streamed for alumni and others off campus. Pachinko is the assigned summer reading for the class of 2023. The talk will also serve as a welcome to Lee, who arrives at Amherst this fall for a three-year stint as writer-in-residence.
Contemporary Works Gifted to Mead
The College’s Mead Art Museum has received more than 170 pieces of contemporary art—including works by Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Thomas Ruff and Cindy Sherman—from an anonymous donor. The gift will be celebrated in the exhibition Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, which opens Sept. 10 and runs through next July.
College Names Chief Investment Officer
Letitia Johnson joins Amherst from Cambridge Associates in Boston. Responsible for the management and oversight of the College’s $2.9 billion long-term investment pool, she succeeds Mauricia Geissler, who has served in the role since 2003.
Know Your Enemy: Students Research Cyberattacks
A recent graduate and rising sophomore are studying how to make computer systems less vulnerable. As one of them said, “It requires some complicated math.”
“What Both Sides Don’t Get About American Gun Culture”
This Politico column by professors Austin Sarat and Jonathan Obert covers gun ownership and the shootings in El Paso, Tex., and Dayton, Ohio.
Correction: The July 25 E-news misspelled the name of Robert M. Morgenthau ’41. We apologize for the error.
Netflix’s Customer Obsession: How to Delight Inherently Unsatisfiable Customers