“You’re benefiting the portion of society that really needs to benefit the most.” Bryce Bares ’00, in “The Donut King of Nebraska,” the cover story of the Fall issue of Amherst magazine.
“Gardens and poems are places we go to excavate ourselves.” Poet Tess Taylor ’00, writing in the Fall issue of Amherst magazine.
Congratulations to the men’s soccer team on an outstanding season, collecting the national runner-up trophy for the third time in the last four seasons at the NCAA Division III Championship game. Game Recap. (Photo credit: Dan Hunter: d3photography.com)
Congratulations to the men's soccer team on their win over Washington & Lee in the NCAA Division III semi-final! They'll face St. Olaf for the final on Sunday, Dec. 3 at noon. Game Recap. (Photo credit: Dan Hunter: d3photography.com)
“I do believe we are all bridges--as we link the past with the future through the span of our careers.” Longtime women's lacrosse coach Christine Paradis, speaking at the Nov. 16 ceremony marking her induction into the Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to men’s soccer for making it to the NCAA Final Four! The Mammoths will face Washington & Lee in the national semifinals on Dec. 1. Read the story: Back to the Final Four: Mammoths edge Middlebury 1-0 on Clark-Eden goal and great defensive effort.
“The future of Native art is being revealed.” Heid E. Erdrich, guest curator for “Boundless,” a Mead Art Museum exhibit, in the new Amherst magazine.
“I’m trying to find a new way to help my community by finding a bridge between Western education and Indigenous values.” Roxane Main ’25 the first Amherst student to win a Udall Scholarship to address environmental challenges affecting Native nations.
Congratulations to the men’s and women’s soccer teams for capturing their second consecutive NESCAC championship wins! Go Mammoths!
“ I can assure you that you will write subpar essays─I surely did. And on the other side of that experience will not be failure, but something else: learning.” President Michael A. Elliott ’92, offering words of wisdom about college life to current students.
“When I walked into my first Multicultural Student Union meeting at Amherst, I felt something I had never fully felt before: complete inclusion.” Anna Hogarth ’23, writing about her experience with the Multicultural Student Union<, one of many affinity organizations on campus.
“It matters to me that my work is meaningful and has some kind of impact.” Ash Smith ’18, who is doing research for BREHA, Amherst’s new Black Feminist Reproductive Justice, Equity & HIV/AIDS Activism Collective.
“Theater is the most collaborative art form. When you put on a play, it's really putting together a team.” Luke Herzog ’24, winner of the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
From move-in to Convocation, Amherst College welcomed the newest Mammoths into the herd. Check out the Orientation 2023 in Pictures slideshow.
“Through teaching, I am reinforcing my commitment to an open and free world.” Gabriel Echarte ’23 on being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.
“ I, for one, know 100 percent that they will make a difference in this world.” Matthew McGann, dean of admission and financial aid, speaking of the incoming class of 488 students.
“I had at long last used my creativity to build a new theory of a nation’s happiness.” Nobel laureate in economics Edmund Phelps ’55, H’85 in his new memoir.
“Today, we mourn, remember, and honor the lives lost on this day 22 years ago, including those of three Amherst alumni—Frederick C. Rimmele III ’90, Brock Safronoff ’97 and Maurita Tam ’ 01.” Read “9/11/01: A Dispatch from Campus.”
“I credit Amherst enormously for framing how I look at issues of racial justice and sexism, all of the things I care about deeply, and the things I end up covering on CNN every day.” News anchor Laura Jarrett ’07 from the Black Women of Amherst College podcast series.
“You learn to say, ‘It’s imperfect, but it works.’ People don’t come for perfection... Perfection is you placing yourself at center.” Actor John Cho in a talk in Amherst’s Johnson Chapel.
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“It’s like walking into Mad Men.” Architect Bruce Becker ’80 on his award-winning, environmentally innovative hotel, The Marcel.
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“His time at Amherst is a testament to Tong’s belief that home is a verb, not a noun.” Leo Kamin ’25 on Haoran Tong ’23, in “The Pride of Amherst.”
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“We remain resolute in our commitment to recruit and support a diverse community of scholars within the bounds of the law.” President Michael Elliott responds to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race-conscious admissions practices.
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“In un placete de La Mancha of which nombre no quiero remembrearme, vivía, not so long ago, uno de esos gentlemen who always tienen una lanza in the rack, una buckler antigua, a skinny caballo y un greyhound para el chase.” Professor Ilan Stavans, in his Spanglish translation of Don Quixote, from the new issue of Amherst magazine.
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”I think I was drawn to it on some subconscious level, finding my own entryway to think about food on a more intellectual level.” Niki Russ Federman ’99, co-owner of the New York landmark Russ & Daughters, on her favorite Amherst class.
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“The Amherst photograph is the most exciting discovery we’ve made while preparing for the exhibit.” Philip Palmer, curatorial lead for an exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene at New York’s Morgan Library.
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“We planted thousands and thousands of mango trees. One of my proudest moments was going back years later and seeing how high they’d grown.” Jonathan Putnam ’88 in the new Amherst magazine.
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Amherst College mourns the loss of former President Peter Pouncey, who died on May 30. He served from 1984 to 1994 and is remembered for guiding the College through a time of transition into greater stability and diversity. Read the story.
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Amherst College Names Sheree M. Ohen New Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer. Read the Press release.
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The number of continents represented in this year's graduating class: Six. (Maybe next year, Antarctica?). More facts about the Class of 2023.
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Ukrainian human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviichuk will be honored along with six other influential leaders during Amherst College’s Commencement on May 28. Read the Press release.
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“It can start with a simple text: ‘I am thinking about you.’” Marc Schulz ‘84, on lessons about human happiness, in an interview in the new issue of Amherst magazine.
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“The meaningful part of education is about the transformation of you and your capabilities.” Lee Spector, the Class of 1993 Professor of Computer Science, speaking at a panel on ChatGPT.
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“It is not a time to be shy about values.” Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Matthew McGann, in an interview about race-conscious admissions in higher education
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“I capitalized on a market that had zero history of finding success.” Jack Betts ’24E, on marketing his name, image and likeness as a Division III athlete.
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“There are not many live-music venues like this anywhere.” Darryl Harper ’90, professor and jazz clarinetist, on a new addition to the Town of Amherst.
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“It is the life transformation from being dependent on your family to becoming independent. It’s about coming to discover much more about who you really are.” Colin Diver ’65, on the purpose of college, from an interview about his new book on college rankings.
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Moderna President, Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Among Six To Be Honored at Commencement. Learn more.
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Congratulations to David Hixon ’75, longtime men’s basketball coach with 800+ wins, the first Division III coach to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame! Read the story.
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“Social media does a good job of bringing us together, and an amazing job of pulling us apart.” Rebecca Marshall ’26, from an article in Amherst magazine about taking a year-long break from social media. (Illustration by Marc Rosenthal)
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In its new survey of leading liberal arts colleges, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education names Amherst as the only school in the 30-year history of its survey to enroll a first-year class that is more than one-fifth Black. Read about this groundbreaking accomplishment.
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Congratulations to the hard-playing, history-making Mammoths for their triple-OT runner-up result in the National Championship game. A truly well-played season! Game Recap.
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The Mammoths are headed to the Women’s Ice Hockey National Championship on Sunday, March 19th at 3 PM—GO MAMMOTHS!! Game details.
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“How can we have a process that allows students to bring their whole selves to Amherst except for [their race and ethnic] identity?” Matt McGann, dean of admission and financial aid, at a recent campus event that centered on the future of race-conscious admissions and the Supreme Court.
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“The American firmament was shifting in ways I needed to understand, and these empty, forgotten places seemed an important part of that.” Ted Conover ’80, in his new book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge.
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“This book left me feeling breathless and small and mortal but also part of a universe that will not ever let me go, not really.” Makena Onjerika ’10, reviewing the novel We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman. ’90.
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“Stories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.” Valeria Luiselli in her novel Lost Children Archive. Luiselli is a featured speaker at Amherst’s upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.
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“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.” Meghan O’Rourke, in her book The Long Goodbye: A Memoir. O’Rourke is a featured speaker at Amherst’s upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.
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“Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.” Poet Victoria Chang in her book Obit. Chang is a featured speaker at Amherst’s upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.
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“If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything.” Writer, theater critic, and Presidential Scholar Hilton Als, in a 2018 interview in The Guardian. Als is a featured speaker at Amherst’s upcoming LitFest.