Weird Amherst
June 12, 2019 In a Reunion talk and a forthcoming bicentennial book, Nancy Pick ’83 unearths some offbeat stories from Amherst’s past.
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Emily Dickinson Museum Receives a $22 Million Gift From the Late William McC. Vickery ’57
June 05, 2019 Amherst College today announced a gift of approximately $25 million from the late William McC. Vickery ’57 to the College’s endowment, approximately $22 million of which is designated for use by the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass.
“Turn Around, Bright Eyes,” As You’ve Never Heard It Before
June 10, 2019 Reunion 2019 rocked with a 50th-anniversary performance of The Dream Engine, a piece of Amherst legend created by Jim Steinman ’69
Better Know a Farmer
May 31, 2019 Maida Ives is making the Book & Plow Farm a resource for wellness and teaching.
Tossed in Translation
June 03, 2019 In this research seminar, students took hundreds of historic documents in Chinese, Russian and Spanish and converted them into English for the first time.
A Class of Compassion
May 10, 2019 Held on an evening after classes have ended, Senior Assembly is a traditional ceremony in which the Amherst College faculty honors the graduating students.
Commencement 2019: Relationships Worth Having
May 26, 2019 Under the great oaks and maples on the Amherst College Quad, President Biddy Martin urged 471 new graduates to learn from the trees “what gives our lives their source and beauty—our interdependence and our belonging in embodied networks.”