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Tue, Jun 25, 2019
Farewell Reception for Bulaong Ramiz-Hall, MRC director!!
Please join us in celebrating Bulaong and wishing her the best of luck in her new position on Tuesday, June 25 at 3:30pm in the MRC. Refreshments will be served.
Bulaong has accepted a new position as Director of the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity at the University of Kansas. Bulaong will be the first woman of color to oversee the Center and no doubt, bring her brilliance, expertise, and love for cultivating community and joy to her new workplace as she has done here. During her three years at Amherst, Bulaong has transformed the Multicultural Resource Center. She has created and cultivated with her students and specialists, a space of support, growth, community, education, joy, and resilience for students of color and all members of the College. Her legacy will be long lasting and she will certainly be missed.
We look forward to celebrating her time at the College and wishing her best of luck in her next adventure! We hope you will join us!!!
Mapping Geographic Data with ArcGIS
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a powerful tool to discover spatial relationships and illuminate your research with intuitive maps:
• Illustrate historic sites and extract features from old maps;
• Spatially correlate census, economic, and other data;
• Display geologic formations and delineate watersheds;
• Track human, animal, and plant populations; and
• Map locations from a GPS receiver.
You will learn about:
• Constructing and Sharing Maps (including with Google Earth);
• Mapping Named Data (including census data and street addresses);
• Mapping Coordinate Data (including using a GPS receiver);
• Mapping Image Data (including scanned maps and satellite data); and
• Extracting Map Features
This workshop is in four parts:
• Tuesdays, June 11,18, 25, and July 2
Snacks and drinks will be provided!
Please register in advance:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScijz6Qre8lrzSjOJrujtOXhGpKob9m...
Registration Required
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.
RAD Self Defense classes
6:00 pm on Jun 24, to 8:00 pm on Jul 19
Charles Pratt Hall, O'Connor Commons
R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) course is a comprehensive self defense program for folks who self-identify as trans or cis women and/or nonbinary. It begins with awareness, prevention, risk reduction and avoidance while progressing to the basics of hands-on defense training. The R.A.D. system is dedicated to teaching defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense tactics.
Please email RAD@amherst.edu to sign-up and bring a friend!