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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.

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

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Who Is Juliet Mayer ’18? Amherst Alumna Wins Big on "Jeopardy!"

Virginia’s Fauquier Times newspaper profiles Mayer, who recently appeared on three episodes of the game show and emerged as champion on two of them, accumulating winnings of more than $53,200.

Professor Jonathan Obert on “the Million-Dollar Question” in U.S. Gun Culture

Assistant Professor of Political Science Jonathan Obert is one of several people quoted in a Boulder Weekly article about (white) American gun culture, which he describes as “people really seeing something of their own identity in the possession and use of guns.”

New Biography of Science Professor and College President Edward Hitchcock

The Daily Hampshire Gazette’s Book Bag column features All the Light Here Comes from Above: The Life and Legacy of Edward Hitchcock, by local author Robert T. McMaster (UnQuomonk Press). Hitchcock (1793–1864) was a pastor, geologist and paleontologist who taught at Amherst and served as the College’s third president.

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"Solo Performance": An Evening of Original Student Works

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Amherst Acts 2021

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Virtual Russian Table

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Somatice Respiratory Integration

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Call for Applications: NAIS Mellon Mini-Grants & Residencies/Five Colleges, Inc.

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Amherst Magazine

Inside the Spring 2021 issue: an interview with Biden speechwriter Dan Cluchey ’08; a close look at Charles Curtis, the first person of color to serve as vice president; a round-up of the Black Art Matters Festival at the Mead Art Museum, and more.

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Your Life at Amherst—in 1821

Let The Games Begin

She Turned the Boy Scouts Coed

Happening at Amherst

"Globalization and COVID-19: Learning Lessons in the Midst of the Pandemic"

"Solo Performance": An Evening of Original Student Works

Amherst Acts 2021

Virtual Russian Table

Somatice Respiratory Integration

Call for Applications: NAIS Mellon Mini-Grants & Residencies/Five Colleges, Inc.