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Watch live as our giant friend makes its first appearance on campus!

There are big changes afoot in the archives as our diligent staff look to bring more light to hidden collections. Read more about this effort on their blog.

In this post for Beyond the Bubble, Esperanza Chairez '19 talks about life in Rio de Janeiro—and what it's like to say goodbye to a place that has come to feel like home.

Thanks to the Green Revolving Fund, 32 science refrigerators and freezers are being updated to energy efficient models—a move expected to save approximately 51,300 kilowatt hours each year in electricity.

Amherst College Athletics has a new name! As Amherst launches a live sports network this fall, fans will be able to find all athletics-related news under Amherst Mammoths.

The relationship between President John F. Kennedy and poet and Amherst professor Robert Frost is the focus of "JFK: The Last Speech," which airs tonight at 9 p.m. on WGBH. Frost, who died in 1963, read a poem at Kennedy’s inauguration and served as a cultural emissary to Russia. In honor of the poet, and weeks before his assassination, JFK delivered a speech to dedicate the Robert Frost Library at Amherst. The documentary highlights that final speech, the complicated relationship between Frost and Kennedy, and how the presidents’ words influenced the lives of the students of Amherst’s Class of ’64. #JFKTheLastSpeech #WGBH

Did you know that our feature article on students interviewing Puerto Ricans in Holyoke, Mass.—and then traveling to the island—is also available in Spanish? Find the translated version (and the English original) here.

Can a robot play soccer? It can if it's Eugene, created this summer by six Amherst students under the direction of Professor Ashley Carter. The effort, which involved assembling subsystems to collect, move and shoot a ball, was geared toward honing technical and project management skills and fostering teamwork across disciplines.

“Entrepreneurship is the fundamental building block of improving people’s lives and improving the lives of society,” says Matt Glickman ’87. It's about “not seeing problems as problems, but as obstacles that you can surmount.”