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Goldwater Scholarship winners Helena Treiber and Hyery Yoo

STEM Stars Become Goldwater Scholars

April 20, 2021 Two Amherst juniors have won national scholarships to support their continued work in science.
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Your Life at Amherst—in 1821

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“A Real Game-Changer” For the College Farm

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Students Hold Three-Hour #BlackMindsMatter Protest

April 14, 2021 Against the backdrop of Sunday’s police killing of a Black man in Minnesota, Amherst students walked out of classes on April 13 and called for institutional reforms to acknowledge the importance of Black students’ mental health.

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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Joseph Stiglitz ’64: “The Major Challenge Facing Every University, Every Teacher, Is How to Teach Creativity”

Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University, spoke about education at the 13th annual Columbia China Business Conference on April 6, according to a Yahoo Finance article.

Professor Jen Manion on the Challenges of Telling LGBTQ History

Manion was one of four historians who took part in a panel discussion now featured on the website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

Chris Bohjalian ’82 on the Pandemic, War and Social Injustice as “Hour of the Witch” Draws Nigh

The Armenian Weekly interviews the bestselling author and shares the prologue of Hour of the Witch, his novel that will be released on May 4.

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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

Apr 22

Eduardo C. Corral: A Reading and Conversation

7:00 PM

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Apr 26

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

7:30 PM - 9:00 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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