2017: Summer

Amherst magazine summer 2017 cover

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

The Star-Crossed Astronomer

Beyond the Bathroom

Only Time Will Tell

Poetry Contest: Not Just Common Sense

Aerial view of Commencement set-up on the Quad

College Row

News & Views from Campus

Breaking the Language Barrier

“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.

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Carrying Each Other

Friendship was the theme at the 196th commencement.

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Debunking the Bunker

As headlines mounted from North Korea, a history class toured the College's bunker, and explored myths around nuclear survival.

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Expert Advice

Books on Soviet and Russian History

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Mr. Mammoth and the New (Old) Bebu

In the Beneski Museum of Natural History, the student guides were particularly excited about the College’s new mascot.

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Now There Are 40

The creation of Latinx and Latin American studies—one of two new Amherst majors—is a development both long in the works and especially timely.

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Mattiacci 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.

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Three Join Board

On July 1, Jeffrey L. Bleich ’83, Phillip A. Jackson ’85 and Sarah Bloom Raskin ’83 began six-year terms as College trustees.

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What's American?

The field of American studies is changing, and at Amherst, new courses are accelerating that change.

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Beyond Campus

Alumni in the World

When Med School is Not Enough

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.

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A Little More Humane

Religion: 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.

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