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The Amherst College women's ice hockey team poses together in victory.

#3 Mammoths fly into NCAA Frozen Four with 4-0 shutout of Colby

March 13, 2023 The Amherst College women's hockey team is headed into the NCAA Tournament's Frozen Four for the first time since 2010 with a 4-0 shutout of Colby College in an NCAA quarterfinal game played at Orr Rink.
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A Break From Classes, Plus Games on the Quad: It was a Mammoth Day

October 20, 2020 The College canceled classes on a perfect fall day. The students exulted on the Quad—and found normalcy in abnormal times.
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Momentous Facts about Amherst’s Newest Mammoths

September 04, 2019 The number of military veterans, the percentage of students who are the first in their families to go to college, the importance of November 15 and other critical information about this year’s new students.
Twitter War

The Biggest Little Twitter War

November 05, 2018 How do you top a boast by a purple cow? By showing some Mammoth pride, of course!
The Amherst College Mammoth

College Welcomes New Members of the Mammoth Herd

August 29, 2018 It may have been 90+ degrees and muggy on campus on Aug. 28, but that didn’t stop a mammoth—not woolly, thank goodness—from appearing on the quad to greet nearly 500 new Amherst students who had arrived for Orientation.
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The Voices of Scholars

July 02, 2018 Amherst is home to a mammoth family of podcasts about academic books.
Homecoming 2017

Homecoming 2017 Is a Revelation

The new mammoth mascot design is unveiled, the football team wins, and alumni revel in a variety of events.
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Writer-in-Residence Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

Literary Hub – In a Q&A with Julia Kovalenko, Lee, the acclaimed author of Pachinko and Free Food for Millionaires, talks about her next novel, American Hagwon. She also discusses her role as a writing teacher, the importance of advocacy and encouragement to writers, and the global privileges that come with being fluent in English.

Retired Amherst Coach Chris Paradis Named to Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association Hall of Fame

USA Lacrosse Magazine – “With a career coaching record of 321–123 (.723), Chris Paradis molded Amherst College Women’s Lacrosse into one of the most successful teams in the nation,” says an article announcing that Paradis is one of three coaches chosen to be inducted into the IWLCA Hall of Fame later this year. 

Amherst Women’s Hockey Coach Jeff Matthews Continuing Family Legacy While Blazing Own Trail

Daily Hampshire Gazette – “Jeff Matthews has been coaching the Amherst College women’s hockey program since 2012, and now has his team in its first NCAA tournament semifinal appearance since 2010,” writes local sports reporter Hannah Bevis. The coach’s father is C.B. “Moose” Matthews, known for his own long career of coaching high school hockey in Westfield, Mass.

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