2017: Summer

“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.

Friendship was the theme at the 196th commencement.

As 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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Oceanography: Hilary Palevsky ’07 measures carbon in the sea using a technique that may one day help scientists alleviate climate change.

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.

Book Review: Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest, by Marti Dumas ’98

Interview: NPR Books' Petra Mayer ’96

Film Review: Seven Lovers, by Keith Boynton ’05E

From East to West and bachelors to Baby Boomers, Amherst authors will take you a long way this summer.

New Media: Los Niños de Morelia, a work-in-progress by Destry Sibley '09