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Dr. Thomas J. Wattley ’75, Lamar Albritton ’77, Bob Bellinger ’77, Dr. Loris Rayner ’76 and Richard Ammons ’74.

Gerald Penny ’77 Is Honored on Black Alumni Weekend

November 21, 2023 Fifty years after his tragic death on campus, the community gathered for a day of recollection and reckoning.
President Michael Elliott and Gov. Maura Healey

Massachusetts’ Governor and Amherst’s President Talk Democracy

Professor Nicholas Horton speaking about the history of Holyoke.

Data with Destiny: A Statistics Class Mines the History of Holyoke

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Amherst Student Finds Balance Through Yoga

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Mason Daring ’71 and Jeanie Stahl Celebrate a 50-year Musical Partnership

The Boston Globe – Reporter Ed Symkus interviewed Daring and Stahl, friends who live in Marblehead, Mass., and have been performing and recording together since they first met in a Boston coffeehouse in 1973. 

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Professor Sonya Clark ’89, A Collaboration, at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

Forbes – “Clark’s large-scale, community-centered, and participatory projects are brought together for the first time during the exhibition Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other,” writes Chadd Scott. “The exhibition features six of Clark’s projects created through mass participation, two directly addressing the Civil War, a theme common to her artmaking.”

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Meet Sage Loyema Innerarity ’22: Emerging Trailblazer in Tribal Archives

Simmons.edu – Previously a Postbaccalaureate Fellow working with the Amherst College Collection of Native American Literature, Innerarity is profiled on the website of Simmons University, where she has begun graduate studies at the School of Library and Information Science.

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Dec 11 Virtual Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:00:00 -0500

Duties beautifully done: A Dickinson Birthday Celebration

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Oct 23 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:00:00 -0500

"Oops Upside Your Head" Artist Show by Felandus Thames

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Dec 9 Buckley Recital Hall Sat, 09 Dec 2023 20:00:00 -0500

ASO Concert: Fall Finale: Grieg, Nielsen & Sibelius

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Dec 9 Holden Experimental Theater, Webster Hall Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:15:00 -0500

The Misanthrope - SAT. SHOW CANCELLED

8:00 PM - 10:15 PM

Dec 10 Johnson Chapel Sun, 10 Dec 2023 20:00:00 -0500

Choral Society and the Center for Religious & Spiritual Life Vespers

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Feb 9 Buckley Recital Hall Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:30:00 -0500

M@A Presents: Raehann Bryce-Davis, mezzo-soprano

7:30 PM

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Amherst Magazine

Inside the Summer 2023 issue: Architect Bruce Becker ’80’s lastest project, an energy-efficient boutique hotel; Nichelle Carr ’98's Webby-award-winning podcast series Black Women of Amherst College; a spotlight on recent graduate Haoran Tong ’23, and much more.

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