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Workmen moving refrigerators into the new Science Center

When Science Freezers Go Green

August 10, 2018 Thirteen of the new refrigerators arrived at the Science Center’s loading docks this week and were uncrated to move into their new home.
Amherst College faculty gathered around a larger meeting table

In Many Voices, a History of Amherst

July 17, 2018 Timed to the College's 2021 bicentennial, a team of alumni, faculty and other scholars are preparing an essay collection about the Amherst they love.
Video game illustration by Mengxin Li

Deconstructing the Game

August 02, 2018 Marisa Parham’s course on videogames presents several challenges, because it’s so popular and because the idea of “digital humanities” is so complex.
Rare Book School

Rare Book School

July 23, 2018 In June, a dozen scholars—college professors, librarians and graduate students—took a deep dive into the Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Native American Literature Collection in Amherst’s Archives and Special Collections.
Katie Fretwell at a podium welcomes students to Orientation 2017

Admission Accomplished

July 20, 2018 Dean of Admission Katharine Fretwell ’81 is retiring after 30 years at Amherst. After building a generation of classes, we got her to accept an interview with us.
Children running through a field

They Study Childhood

June 29, 2018 Four Amherst professors share what they’ve learned about children, from the lab to the archives to the classroom.
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