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Editor
Emily Gold Boutilier
(413) 542-8275
magazine@amherst.edu
Alumni Editor
Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
(413) 542-2031
Print Design Director
Ronn Campisi
Assistant Editor
Katherine Duke ’05
News & Views from Campus
“Translation is the art of failure,” said Umberto Eco. But these two students found success and connection by gathering resonant, hard-to-translate phrases from around campus.
Read the full storyFriendship was the theme at the 196th commencement.
Read the full storyAs headlines mounted from North Korea, a history class toured the College's bunker, and explored myths around nuclear survival.
Books on Soviet and Russian History
Read the full storyIn the Beneski Museum of Natural History, the student guides were particularly excited about the College’s new mascot.
Read the full storyThe creation of Latinx and Latin American studies—one of two new Amherst majors—is a development both long in the works and especially timely.
Read the full storyMattiacci studies the link between food scarcity and a nation’s vulnerability to conflict or collapse. Her recent paper in the Journal of Peace Research was covered by UPI, allAfrica, Science Daily and many other news outlets.
Read the full storyOn July 1, Jeffrey L. Bleich ’83, Phillip A. Jackson ’85 and Sarah Bloom Raskin ’83 began six-year terms as College trustees.
Read the full storyThe field of American studies is changing, and at Amherst, new courses are accelerating that change.
Read the full storyAlumni in the World
Medicine: Carolyn Sufrin ’97 (major: anthropology and chemistry) in an ob-gyn and an anthropologist. She works from multiple vantage points to serve the health care needs of incarcerated women.
Read the full storyReligion: On his path from nightclub owner to Catholic monk to Buddhist monk, A.C. Cuda '68 has worked in small ways to help those facing big problems.
Read the full storyOceanography: Hilary Palevsky ’07 measures carbon in the sea using a technique that may one day help scientists alleviate climate change.
Read the full storyArts News & Reviews
It’s her “bright, vibrant” voice that earns accolades, but as with any job, it helps to be in the right place at the right time.
Read the full storyBook Review: Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest, by Marti Dumas ’98
Read the full storyInterview: NPR Books' Petra Mayer ’96
Read the full storyFilm Review: Seven Lovers, by Keith Boynton ’05E
Read the full storyFrom East to West and bachelors to Baby Boomers, Amherst authors will take you a long way this summer.
Read the full storyNew Media: Los Niños de Morelia, a work-in-progress by Destry Sibley '09