Stories from the Summer 2023 issue of Amherst Magazine
The Remaking of a Modernist Masterpiece
Rand Richards Cooper ’80 shows you around architect Bruce Becker ’80's latest project: a brutalist box, situated between an IKEA and an interstate, that he’s turned into an energy-efficient boutique hotel.
Before graduation, Haoran Tong ’23 had not left Massachusetts, or seen his parents, in more than three years. Leo Kamin ’25 describes what he did and who he became during those many, many, many months on campus.
Barrett Rollins ’74’s wife, Jane Weeks, was a renowned oncologist who studied the benefits, risks and results of cancer treatments. Yet, when she was dying of breast cancer, she told no one.
The Black Women of Amherst College podcast wins two Webby Awards. Blair Kamin ’79 asks, Who Is the City For?. Nobel Prize winner Edmund Phelps ’55 reflects on his journeys. And Amherst faculty members publish four new books.