Class of 2027 Expected to Enroll With 19 Percent First-Generation Students
This is Amherst’s highest proportion of first-generation college students in modern record and a demonstration of the College’s continued commitment to educational access and equity.
She Speaks for Ukraine—and Amherst’s Ukrainian Students Speak to Her
Oleksandra Matviichuk, whose human rights organization won a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, took a student-led tour of the campus before accepting her honorary degree from Amherst.
As a Native Hawaiian and Amherst’s first-ever Udall Scholarship winner, Roxanne Main ’25 builds bridges between traditional culture and modern science.
Morgan Way Dedicated In Honor of Iconic Amherst Coach Michelle Morgan
In Morgan’s 44-year tenure at Amherst, she coached golf, soccer, squash, basketball, lacrosse and tennis. The path from Alumni Gymnasium up to Memorial Hill now bears her name.
3 Questions for Professor Wako Tawa About Teaching the Hardest Languages for English Speakers
Tawa, the Willem Schupf Professor in Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of Language Study, has built Japanese language instruction from the ground up. Her “stage-step approach” textbooks have been a game-changer.
In the three newest episodes of this video conversation series, President Michael A. Elliott ’92 talks with Engelhardt about the music department’s collaboration with The Drake performance space, with Edwards about the College’s STEM Incubator Program, and with Aries about her long-term study of a cohort of Amherst classmates.