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Thu, Apr 18, 2019
BIG Initiative – Workday Overview Demonstration
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room
Amherst has launched the BIG initiative to modernize our administrative business systems and processes, and a key part of the work is to identify and implement a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system. Workday has emerged as one of the ERP vendors who we believe can meet our needs. College faculty and staff are invited to the overview demonstration for a chance to see the product first-hand and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Canine Office Hours with Huxley or Evie
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Frost Library, Beside Frost Cafe
Drop by Frost Library for some canine affection and advice from Huxley or Evie. Every Thursday from 4:30-5:30p.m. beside Frost Cafe, or in front of the library when the weather permits.
"Why Do Countries Refrain from Using Nuclear Weapons?"
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Beneski Earth Sciences Building, Paino Lecture Hall
Jennifer Erickson will give a talk titled: "Why Do Countries Refrain from Using Nuclear Weapons". Jennifer L. Erickson is an associate professor in the Political Science Department and International Studies Program at Boston College. Her research interests include international security and arms control, conventional and nuclear weapons, and the laws and norms of war. Her current book project explores the historical and contemporary cases of new weapons technologies and the creation of new laws and norms of war. Her first book, which deals with the conventional arms trade and the creation of the UN Arms Trade Treaty, won the 2017 APSA Foreign Policy Section's Best Book Award.
The event is being sponsored by the Stanton Foundation and the Political Science Department of Amherst College.
This event is free and open to the public.
"Asian Americans and Affirmative Action": A Panel & Conversation
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall (Room 115)
For their final project, the students of Professor Franklin Odo's research colloquium "Asian Americans and Affirmative Action" will be producing podcast episodes covering topics including the legal and political history of affirmative action, South Asian perspectives on the lawsuit, and Chinese American media activism through WeChat. Come to hear more about each episode, and join us for a discussion on the Harvard lawsuit and its potential impact on race-based affirmative action and college admissions! Participants: DJ Boakye '21, Tara Guo '20, Seoyeon Kim '21, Eric Kim '19, Sabrina Lin '21, Marco Sanchez '21, Karina Thanawala '21. Moderated by Shawna Chen '20.
Senior Recital Performance: Amber Liu '19, Piano
Amber Liu '19's senior piano recital is an exploration of music from different time periods, including classical, Romantic, French and Spanish Impressionism, and contemporary. The program features pieces by Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, Prokofiev and Albeniz.
"Configurations of Russian-Jewish Modernity": Symposium and Exhibition
5:00 pm - 6:45 pm
Center for Russian Culture, 202 Webster Hall
Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois, Chicago):
"[De]racializing Modern Jewishness between the 'Boasian Revolution' in the U.S. and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia"
Brian Horowitz (Tulane University, New Orleans):
"Jabotinsky's Russia and the Politics and Culture of Pre-State Zionism"
Exhibition of Russian-Jewish Periodicals from the Collection of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture
The panel is moderated by Sergey Glebov and Adi Gordon from the Amherst College Department of History.
Sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund and Amherst Center for Russian Culture
Free and open to the public
Cooking With Farmers
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Ford Hall, Demo Kitchen
RSVP to mives@amherst.edu
Book & Plow is hosting another cooking night Thursday, April 18 from 6-8:30 p.m. in the Ford Hall Demo Kitchen. This time we'll be cooking up an easy, healthy meal and talking about different sauces you can make to add flavor (and nutrients!) to your meals. We'll be making rice, beans, and steamed kale.
Sauces include:
Honey-mustard sauce with local honey
Tahini-miso dressing with Book & Plow chives and garlic
Balsamic-nutritional yeast dressing that is so good on salads
We hope you'll join us!
Students Only
Centerview Partners Information Session
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Fayerweather Hall, Room 113
Centerview Partners is committed to the success of the companies it works with, and believes this commitment provides meaningful rewards to the people of Centerview. By creating opportunities to advance rapidly while always preserving the firm’s reputation in the marketplace, Centerview Partners is quickly establishing itself among the top-tier of financial advisory firms, and it is consistently ranked as one of the top banking employers to work for in Vault.com’s annual survey.
Centerview believes in bringing on the most-talented people and offering them the opportunity for a long term career. The firm offers a summer internship to college juniors, and hires full time analysts who start after college graduation. Unlike many other investment banking firms, Centerview’s hope is that analysts will choose to stay on beyond their analyst years. As a result, senior staff members commit additional resources to provide an analyst experience that is head and shoulders above traditional two-year programs.
Want to learn more about internship and full-time opportunities at Centerview Partners? Attend this information session to hear from Amherst alumni representatives Nicholas Ulanoff '18 and Cameron Bahadori '18.
Ongoing Events
"Between the Imagined and Seen: The Hand-Pulled Prints of Betsey Garand and Microscope Images of Caroline Goutte"
until Aug 30
Frost Library, Mezzanine Gallery (2nd Floor)
Visit the Mezzanine Gallery in Frost Library to view Between the Imagined and Seen: The Hand-Pulled Prints of Betsey Garand and Microscope Images of Caroline Goutte, on exhibit from March 4 to Aug. 30. This exhibition is sponsored by the Arts at Amherst Initiative
Professor Caroline Goutte is chair of the Department of Biology and a member of the Program in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Amherst College. Betsey Garand is senior resident artist in the Department of Art and the History of Art at Amherst College.