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Sunset view of Johnson Chapel. Photo by Maria Stenzel.

In honor of his long service and impact at the College, Amherst has established of the Stanley Rabinowitz Distinguished Teaching Professorship, to help outstanding professors to continue teaching even as they shift toward retirement. Much like Rabinowitz himself, the professorship that bears his name is one of a kind.

Congratulations to Itai Muzhingi ’18 for being named a 2019 Zimbabwe Rhodes Scholar! Itai hopes to bring the benefits of advanced health research to his home country. “My vision is to improve healthcare delivery through setting up collaborations with other scientists worldwide and educating the next generation of physician-scientists in Zimbabwe,” he wrote in his application.

Congratulations to all our E graduates! Students graduating in the fall of the 2018-19 school year, the 2019Es, had a celebratory dinner at Lewis Sebring Dining Commons on Dec. 14, 2018. For some, the dinner was a precursor to the Commencement events, for others, the dinner was the culmination of their years at Amherst College. Find more photos: https://amhrst.is/Dinner2019E

Congratulations to all of our E graduates, including those celebrating tonight! We're so #AmherstProud of you. amhrst.is/2019EDinner

Our #FridayFeature is Critters of Amherst! Run by an Amherst student (who requested anonymity as that's "part of the fun"), Critters began as #squirreloftheday and morphed into its updated format to distinguish itself from similar squirrel-spotting accounts. "We're inspired by the effects of human-critter interactions here," they wrote. "We've seen squirrels eating pizza, squirrels attempting to eat plastic, squirrels begging humans for food through a window, squirrels and other critters eating out of dumpsters and trash cans, and squirrels throwing hazelnuts at humans." So far, the wildlife around campus that they've spotted includes rabbits, bald eagles, woodpeckers, owls, chipmunks, mice, groundhogs, foxes and snakes. They added, "Our dream is to get one high-quality photo of the Amherst skunk (and/or it's family)."

Gorgeous snowy day on campus yesterday! Photo by Jiayi Liu.

"I’m ecstatic that the HPV vaccine has affected the health of the world," says Doug Lowy '64, the man who helped pioneer it. "But researchers can’t dwell in the past. If you stand still, you’re going backwards.” Read more about Lowy and his work at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in this Amherst Magazine cover story.