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The Next Generation of Amherst Public Intellectuals

April 08, 2021 A group of professors talked about why they have decided to not just publish academic papers in journals in their field, but also to contribute to the public discourse as op-ed writers and commentators for an impressive range of media outlets.
Eniola Ajao and Margot Lurie

Meet the Watson Fellows

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Amherst Announces Plan to Host In-Person Commencement

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Amherst College Releases Three Bicentennial-themed Books

March 17, 2021 Amherst College has released three new books: Eye Mind Heart: A View of Amherst College at 200 by Nancy Pick ’83; Amherst College: The Campus Guide, by Blair Kamin ’79; and Amherst in the World by Martha Saxton and Elizabeth W. Bruss Reader.

She Turned the Boy Scouts Coed

March 09, 2021 Amherst enrolled women in the ’70s. It took the Boy Scouts until 2020 — thanks, in part, to the unrelenting efforts of Sydney Ireland ’23

Amherst Formalizes Commitment to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Investments

March 31, 2021 This is one piece of a wide-ranging effort to address climate change.
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Library Director Martin Garnar Receives Award for Defense of Intellectual Freedom

Martin Garnar, director of the library at Amherst, has received the 2021 John Phillip Immroth Memorial Award from Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT) of the American Library Association (ALA).

Dania Hallak ’24 Details Her Happy Childhood in Syria, Her Love for the Country and the Pain of Loss

The UMass Daily Collegian has published a feature on Hallak, who grew up in the city of Aleppo before moving to Lebanon to escape the Syrian civil war and is now a first-year student at Amherst.

Ghenete “G” Wright Muir ’95’s Thou Art Woman: Archiving the Lives of Black and Brown LBT Women in South Florida

South Florida Gay News profiles Wright Muir, a law professor and co-founder of Thou Art Woman, “an event series that celebrates LBT women and their allies through narrative, performance, and visual arts.”

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Apr 10

M@A Presents Jeremy Denk, Piano

8:00 PM

Apr 13

"Paint and Pestilence: Art During Pandemic Times"

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Apr 13

Kazim Ali: A Reading and Conversation

7:00 PM

Apr 14

CHI Salon: "Cooking Between the Lines: What Can We Learn from Rereading and Recreating Recipes of the Past?"

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Apr 14

RESCHEDULED: The 2020-21 Annual Hawkins Lecture with Dr. Naomi Oreskes

5:30 PM

Apr 22

Eduardo C. Corral: A Reading and Conversation

7:00 PM

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Amherst Magazine

In the Winter 2021 issue: an interview with screenwriter and political strategist Kate Stayman-London ’05; an update about Professor Elizabeth “Buffy” Aries' 15-year study about race and class; a preview of Founding Narratives, an exhibition in the Mead Art Museum, and more.

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