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Editor    
Emily Gold Boutilier

Alumni Editor    
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84

Print Design Director    
Ronn Campisi

Assistant Editor    
Katherine Duke ’05

Senior Editor    
Katharine Whittemore

Email us at: magazine@amherst.edu


Feature Articles

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No Likes. No Shares. Nothing.

She swore off social media for a year, then asked other Amherst people what they liked/unliked about their own online presence.

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Picking Apart the Rankings

As a university dean and then as a college president, Colin Diver ’65 grew ever more certain that the college-ranking industry in our country is deeply problematic.

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“We Were Racing Against Time for Mila”

Could an ultra-customized medicine for one child offer answers for millions of others?

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President Elliott on stage with faculty against the Mount Holyoke Range backdrop

Community News

Waiting outside the Supreme Court, posing for Annie Leibovitz, reopening the Drake and more.

Four young women from the 1980s with their hands on a Ouija board

Amherst Creates

’80s teen horror from Jenna Lamia ’00E; Ted Conover ’80 goes off the grid; Catherine Newman ’90 takes on Impossible Things; and three novels from alumni.