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"Vulnerabilities of Data Analysis: From Political Spin to Data Manipulation" presented by Scott Alfeld
The Faculty C

Join us throughout the 2019-20 season of AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, “RUSSIAN MASTERS,” for pre-concert talks at the A

The Department of Economics welcomes Professor Russell Williams ’72 of Wheaton College to speak at our annual economics

In the same 1950 article in which Alan Turing described his “imitation game” test for artificial intelligence, he also

Science and the technologies it has spawned have been the principal drivers of the American economy since the end of World

The Book of Job, regarded by some as the greatest poem ever written, has been misunderstood in many details and in

The Point/Counterpoint conversation series features an Amherst College professor and guests engaging in thoughtful discuss

What is the maximum number of edges in a graph on n vertices without triangles? Mantel’s answer in 1907—that at

Holly Jackson, associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will read from her new book, A

Fueled significantly by a growing Latinx population, the racial/ethnic and linguistic texture of the United States continu

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Professor Suzanne Bart of Purdue University's Department of Chemistry will give a seminar titled “Utilization of Redox-A

“Secular Chapel: What Greta Thunberg Means to Me” is a gathering for Amherst College students, faculty and staff hoste

yMusic’s performers work with Amherst College students on new compositions. The masterclass is free and open to the publ

Despite three decades studying superconductivity in cuprate-based materials, we are still left with an incomplete understa

The Departments of Political Science and German at Amherst College will host a panel discussion commemorating the 30th ann

Angelina Aspuac will give a talk titled “Art as Territory: The Story of Maya Weavers Advocating for Collective Intellect

Ploughshares at Emerson College called Good Trouble, Joseph O’Neill’s new book of short stories, “[f]u

Amherst College plays host to TEDx on the theme “changing worlds.” TEDx brings the spirit of TED’s mission of ideas

Join the Black Student Union for a special live edition of The New York Times’ award-winning culture podcast S

Professor Jason Sello of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Pharmacy and Department of Pharmaceutical

Environmental Rabbi Ellen Bernstein will be coming to help lead Hillel’s Shabbat dinner this Friday through a discussion

Abstract: A key question in machine learning research is understanding the trade-off between the size of the training set

This lecture has been cancelled.
Nicole Theodosiou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology
Co-Director of

How might we move beyond the conventional frame of the NGO model to re-envision community building and reclaim personal na

We normally think of large accelerators and massive detectors when we consider the frontiers of elementary particle physic