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Your Life at Amherst—in 1821

April 14, 2021 You get water from the College well. You saw wood for your own fireplace. At night you study by firelight. There is no dining hall. If you are very poor, you survive on bread and milk in your room. All you do is study.
Eniola Ajao and Margot Lurie

Meet the Watson Fellows

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Students Hold Three-Hour #BlackMindsMatter Protest

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The Next Generation of Amherst Public Intellectuals

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Let The Games Begin

April 02, 2021 New England Small College Athletic Conference competition resumes at Amherst on April 3, returning a bit of normalcy to this pandemic year.

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 Announces Plan to Host In-Person Commencement

March 29, 2021 President Martin details plans for members of the class of 2021 to celebrate--in accordance with health and safety protocols--their years of hard work, growth and friendship.
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Amy Ziering ’83, #MeToo’s Preeminent Documentarian, Is Just Getting Started

Bustle profiles Ziering, maker of several influential films—including The Invisible War, The Hunting Ground, On the Record and Allen v. Farrow—that address sexual assault.

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.

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Apr 19

Music Thesis Concert: "To Survive," Obed Amissah '21, Organ

3:00 PM

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Apr 19

Gathering at the Crossroads: Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium 2021

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 21

CHI Salon: "Finding Your Voice Through Music": A Conversation and Musical Performance with Helen Sung

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Apr 21

Restorative Justice Through the Power of Storytelling with Circles of Support and Accountability

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Apr 21

"Asian American Activism and Anti-Asian Violence: A Conversation with Helen Zia"

8:00 PM

Apr 22

Statistics and Data Science Colloquium: "Evaluating Potential Critical Windows of Exposure to Antiretroviral Treatment Using Multiple Informant Models"

5:30 PM - 6:30 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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