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Fri, Sep 18, 2020
Virtual Write-on-Site
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Enhance productivity. Find mutual support. Maintain a regular practice. Write with others. Faculty and staff are invited to a virtual Write-on-Site over Zoom each Friday during the fall semester between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m. Hosted by Professor of Art History Nicola Courtright, and CHI Fellows Ashley Smith and Sam Presnal.
Open to the Amherst College community. Please login to Zoom with your Amherst ID and password:
https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/j/92776199071?pwd=Z1lpRDc2Y21sQjlKckgyc1o...
Meeting ID: 927 7619 9071
Passcode: 335098
Health Ed Office Hours with the Sexual Respect Educator
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Student Activities Tent #2 in front of the Mead
The Department of Health Education will be holding weekly office hours in the Student Activities Tent #2 in front of the Mead. Stop by to meet with with a member of the Health Education team, ask a question or get some free resources! Sexual Respect Educator Lauren Kelly will be available from 2-4 PM on Friday, September 18. Stop by and say hello!
OFTW: from founding to $1,000,000 donated
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual
Join Amherst EA and OFTW's co-founder Josh McCann to hear about OFTW's journey from being founded at Wharton to donating its millionth dollar to the world's most cost effective charities. Josh will talk about the organization's founding ethos and values, its evolution, give an introduction to effective giving and then take questions. Register at the link!
Registration Required
Cheminar: Student Thesis Talks
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Via Zoom Link
Thesis Student Presenters:
Yusrah Kaudeer, Nejc Nagelj, Alyson Plaman and Clara Seo
Presentation Titles:
Yusrah Kaudeer: "Probing the pH Modulation of a Hyper-Phosphorylated Model
of Alpha-B Crystallin"
Nejc Nagelj: "Modelling Photoexcited Processes in Quantum Dots"
Alyson Plaman: "Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters in Open-Air"
Clara Seo: "Investigating Monomer Kinetics of ONN-Titanium Complexes in
Ring-Opening Polymerization"
Please visit the chemistry department's seminar webpage for additional information: https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/chemistry/seminar-sched...
Virtual Escape Room: Gold Rush
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Looking for an opportunity to meet other students? 4 Gold Rush Escape Rooms are running next week! For nearly two centuries, the hope of gold has lured people to the hills of Northern California. No one was captivated more than Clyde Hamilton, a greedy gold prospector who loved to gamble. Clyde made too many bets with the wrong crowd and now he’s missing. You’ve been tipped off to where he stashed his gold.. but so has the mob. Find it first!
Students Only