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9th Annual LitFest, Feb. 23—25
Amherst College’s yearly festival celebrates literary life and verbal expression, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry and the spoken word. Guest speakers for LitFest 2024 will include Natasha Trethewey, Paul Harding, Ed Yong, Blair Kamin ’79, Lisa Biggs ’93 and Aparna Nancherla ’05E, among other distinguished editors and authors.
Celebrating Student Research: The Schupf Fellows’ Poster Session
Over the summer, with the guidance of faculty mentors, students in the Schupf Fellows program conducted research in the arts, humanities and social science. They shared the results of their projects at a poster session this fall.
Between 2 Mammoths with Inés Rossi ’25
For the newest installment in our series of brief conversations about campus life, President Michael A. Elliott ’92 asks Rossi about how she first learned about Amherst College, what drew her to become a tour guide and her favorite “secret” study spot on campus.
Amherst in Pictures: Falling in Love with Fall
As winter begins, look back through a photographic tour of the campus in autumn.
Greg Franklin ’20 and His Brother John Win The Amazing Race
The Franklin brothers, from Chicago, emerged victorious in Season 35 of the CBS reality competition show, after traveling more than 23,000 miles through eight different countries on three continents.