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Two people sit at the Wise Elder Advice booth in the Frost Library, offering advice to a student

The Other Kind of “Amherst Senior”

January 24, 2020 A partnership between the town’s Senior Center and Amherst College student groups brought elders to campus to offer “flawless advice.”
Caroline Theoharides, assistant professor of economics

Breaking Myths on Crossing Borders

January 07, 2020 In “Economics of Migration,” students learn about the principles, and the people, that often get left behind in the heated debates over immigration.
MLK memorial statue

Listening to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 17, 2020 In the fall of 1964, Amherst College students could have tuned in to WAMF, the college's student run radio station (now WAMH), and heard the above lecture by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on “The Summer of Our Discontent.”
A speaker at the 2019 Fink Symposium

How to Get From Amherst to the Lab, Med School and Beyond

January 13, 2020 The 12th annual Gerald R. Fink ’62 Bioscience Symposium will be held Jan. 23, with discussion revolving around the theme “Science and Medicine: From Amherst to the Laboratory, Medical School and Beyond.”
Alexander Schwartz '23

Sports, by the Numbers

December 19, 2019 The first-year now at the helm of the Sports Business and Analytics Club wants to connect students with experts in this competitive field.
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