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A lone graduate gazes at the view of Mt Holyoke.

‘No Place, No Person is Too Small to Have a Larger Meaning to the World’

May 28, 2023 At Amherst’s 202nd Commencement on May 28, President Michael A. Elliott urged the year’s graduates and their families and friends to work together to protect rights and freedoms everywhere, and to advance a free and just society.
Students in regalia attend Senior Assembly at Amherst College

All About Amherst’s Commencement Traditions

Custodial Supervisors at Amherst College Jeremy Gonzalez an Liz Pereira

“Working on Commencement is the Best Feeling Ever.”

A commencement cap with the words Pressure Makes Diamonds

The Class of 2023 and Commencement, by the Numbers

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Dr. Alison Christy ’02 Embroiders Brain Images, Writes and Creates Games

Neurology Today – “I’ve spent my life in between the arts and the sciences, and I don't think you have to pick one,” says Christy, a pediatric neurologist and neuroimmunologist who features her colorful embroidered images of neurons on her Instagram account.

“A Return to a Very Beloved Place”: Musician Rani Arbo ’89 and Her Quartet, daisy mayhem

The Commons – “We aim to play old music in such a way that it doesn’t sound old, and new music that sounds a bit timeless,” says Arbo in a Q&A with arts reporter Victoria Chertok. Arbo has been playing the fiddle and guitar, and also singing, in daisy mayhem for more than 20 years.

Liann Tsoukas ’85: The “Most Hugged Professor” in the University of Pittsburgh’s History

The Pitt News – “In the minds of her students and colleagues, Liann Tsoukas’ kindness is what sets her apart,” begins a profile in the university’s daily student newspaper. The Amherst alumna is in her 22nd year of designing and teaching American history courses at Pitt.

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Jun 1 Webster Hall, 202 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:30:00 -0400

Curator’s Talk: “Fragments of Utopia: Photographs from the VKhUTEMAS Workshops”

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Jun 4 Holden Experimental Theater, Webster Hall Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:15:00 -0400

“The Onion,” a new opera in workshop performance

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Feb 9 Frost Library Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0400

“Ancestral Bridges” Exhibition

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Inside the Spring 2023 issue: the career path of Niki Russ Federman ’99; Marc Schulz ’84 on finding contentment; a rare photo of famous librarian Belle da Costa Greene, and more.

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