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Biochemistry & Biophysics Program Thesis Writer Blitz Talks
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Virtual Seminar via Zoom Link
Please join the BCBP Program for an evening of "Blitz Talks" from each of our thesis writers.
Presenters will be Sa...
Kyra Brown on Black Lives Matter, Policing and Environmental Justice
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
5:00 pm
Please join us for a conversation with Kyra Brown about policing, incarceration and environmental justice. Kyra is the dig...
Statistics and Data Science Colloquium: How Statistics Can Make an Impact: A Case Study Describing the Filing Story of ZINPLAVA
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Speaker: Alison Pedley, Ph.D., Merck
Statistics plays a big role in drug development in the design and analysis of ...
Confronting Race in Arts Research: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
6:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for a conversation with Dwight Carey, assistant professor of art and the history of art; Ana Carneiro, visiting ar...
Registration Required
What We Think: Amherst College Psychology Department Fall Lecture Series
Thu, Oct 1, 2020
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join Prof. Carrie Palmquist and Amherst alum (and current kindergarten teacher) Marissa Fierro '16 as they discuss the uni...
Students Only
How Can We Do the Most Good?: Q&A with Will MacAskill
Fri, Oct 2, 2020
1:00 pm
Zoom
Will MacAskill is a philosophy professor at Oxford University and the co-founder of three nonprofits based on effective al...
Registration Required
Discussion Cheminar: "Critical Mass Takes Courage: Diversity in the Chemical Sciences”
Fri, Oct 2, 2020
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Via Zoom Link
The Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Anti-Racism Advisory Committee (CARAC) invite you to this event, which will begi...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Genes That Were Missed: Hundreds of Small RNA and Small Protein Regulators"
Mon, Oct 5, 2020
4:00 pm
Gisela Storz, Ph.D.
National Institute of Health
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Eunice Kennedy Shriver N...
Rafael Campo '87: A Reading and Conversation
Mon, Oct 5, 2020
7:00 pm
Join Rafael Campo '87 as he reads from Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016, generated from h...
Registration Required
Assistant Professor of Physics Candice Etson, Wesleyan University: "Using Single-Molecule Imaging to Investigate Protein-DNA Interactions"
Tue, Oct 6, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom
Proteins and DNA constantly interact with one another and are inextricably linked by both the central dogma of molecular b...
CRG: Doing the Work: White People Committing to Anti-Racism (Group A)
Wed, Oct 7, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom (link will be shared before meeting)
The current racial justice movement has most likely motivated you to think more about racism and in many ways, question ho...
Registration Required
CHI Salon: Matahari Women Workers' Center
Wed, Oct 7, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
Join us for a conversation with Monique Tú Nguyen, executive director of the Matahari Women Workers' Center and CHI Fello...
Registration Required
Education Reform, Racism and the Future of Public Education
Thu, Oct 8, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Public education amidst the pandemic has undergone urgent and radical shifts. What is the future of America's public schoo...
Registration Required
Chemistry Seminar: "Polymer Thin Films: Preparation, Stability and Morphology"
Fri, Oct 9, 2020
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Cheminar with Professor Wei Chen, Mount Holyoke College Department of Chemistry
Professor Amy Connolly, Ohio State University: "High-Energy Neutrino Astrophysics with Radio Techniques"
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom
Multimessenger astronomy has entered an exciting new era with the recent discovery of both gravitational waves and cosmic ...
Shayla Lawson: A Reading and Conversation
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
7:00 pm
Join poet Shayla Lawson as she reads from her new essay collection This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and ...
Registration Required
CANCELLED: CHI Salon: A Symbiotic Future for Machine Learning and the Humanities
Wed, Oct 14, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
Computational methods can help the humanities by making massive cultural heritage collections more explorable and analyzab...
The Condemnation of Blackness
Wed, Oct 14, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Virtual
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young M...
Prof. Matt Schulkind Presents Maintaining Focus under Challenging Conditions
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Maintaining concentration is a challenge under the best of circumstances; these times are not the best of circumstances. P...
Students Only
Statistics and Data Science Colloquium: Regression Methods for Network Indexed Data: Modeling Occurrences of Burglary and Identifying Correlates of Injection Drug Use Cessation
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
We begin by defining and providing examples of network-indexed data. We then turn to two applications: modeling occurrence...
The Far Right Today in the U.S. and Abroad
Thu, Oct 15, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Held via Zoom
Cas Mudde will give a talk titled "The Far Right Today in the U.S. and Abroad." This talk is based on Mudde's two recent b...
Registration Required
ACVotes GOTV Event with Valerie Jarrett and W. Kamau Bell
Fri, Oct 16, 2020
8:00 pm
Virtual
Join ACVotes’ discussion with comedian W. Kamau Bell and Valerie Jarrett P’07, H’07, former senior advisor to Presid...
Biology Monday Seminar: "Don’t Stress: Iron Regulatory Mechanisms at the Intersection of Plant Development and Multi-Stress Resilience"
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
4:00 pm
Terri Long, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Anemia induced by iron deficiency...
Why Democracy Matters: A Conversation with Danielle Allen H’18
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
7:00 pm
Virtual
Danielle Allen H’18, former trustee and James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of H...
Professor Philip Bucksbaum, Stanford University: "Ultrafast Strong Field AMO Physics"
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom
Electron-electron and electron-ion forces drive all processes in chemistry, yet for many years these interactions were dif...
Amity Gaige: A Reading and Conversation
Tue, Oct 20, 2020
7:00 pm
Join Amity Gaige for a reading from Sea Wife, her “stunning fourth novel” (The New York Times). “Se...
Registration Required
CRG: Doing the Work: White People Committing to Anti-Racism (Group B)
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom (link will be shared before meeting)
The current racial justice movement has most likely motivated you to think more about racism and in many ways, question ho...
Registration Required
CHI Salon: Amherst College Press Authors in Conversation
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual
Join Amherst College Press authors Carlos Alberto Sánchez and James R. Martel in conversation with Press Director Beth Bo...
Registration Required
How Can You Represent Those People?
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Zoom link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.us/j/93115956512
Join the Amherst Political Union for an event on Zoom featuring Georgetown Law Professor Abbe Smith. Professor Smith will ...
2020 Presidential Election Post Debate Discussion
Thu, Oct 22, 2020
10:30 pm on Oct 22, to 12:00 am on Oct 23
Held via Zoom, Zoom Link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.u
You are invited to join members of the Political Science Department, including Professors Austin Sarat and Jonathan Obert,...
Biology Monday Seminar: The Search for Evidence of Life Beyond Earth
Mon, Oct 26, 2020
4:00 pm
Alfonso Davila, Ph.D., research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center/Exobiology Branch, will speak on "The Search for Ev...
What We Think: Amherst College Psychology Department Fall Lecture Series
Mon, Oct 26, 2020
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
What We Think - Abundance: Pathways for Psych Majors
There are many pathways to take when choosing to study psycho...
Students Only
Research Assistant in Physics Abigail Plummer, Harvard: "Instability, Frustration and Phase Transitions in Thin Elastic Sheets"
Tue, Oct 27, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
zoom
Thin sheets, such as plant leaves, cell membranes and atomically thin materials, can show complex and surprising behaviors...
CHI Salon: Voices from the Lusosphere: The Common Launches Its 20th Issue
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Virtual, Zoom
Marking 10 years of publication, Amherst's award-winning literary magazine, The Common, launches its 20th issue wit...
Registration Required
Who Merits an Elite College Education?
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Virtual
As part of Virtual Homecoming and Family Week, Zach Bleemer a Class of 2013 Amherst College graduate and current PhD candi...
Meet the Authors: A Conversation about Recent Books Published by History Faculty
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Virtual
Join us for a celebratory conversation with history faculty who have recently published books!
Jen Manion, Associate...
Registration Required
Why Democracy Matters: A Panel Discussion
Wed, Oct 28, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Held Via Zoom
The Department of Political Science would like to invite the entire Amherst College community to a panel discussion on "Wh...
Registration Required
Dr. Ariel Nereson: "Dancing Democracy: Empathy and Community in Bill T. Jones’ Contemporary Work"
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Department of Theater and Dance invites you to "Dancing Democracy: Empathy and Community in Bill T. Jones’ Contempor...
Registration Required
Black Feminism and the Reimagined Politics of Democracy and Accountability
Thu, Oct 29, 2020
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9crW4_RaT6axxkofxdVBXg
Join the Women's and Gender Center as we tune into the National Women's Studies Association's Keynote Conversation, Black ...
Registration Required
Peers and Persuasion
Fri, Oct 30, 2020
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Held via Zoom, Zoom Link: https://amherstcollege.zoom.
The Faculty Colloquium Series for 2020-21 presents a lecture entitled "Peers and Persuasion" presented by Jakina Debnam Gu...