Amherst Voices: Tess Taylor 鈥00

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Illustration of vegetables growing above and below ground by Helena Pallar茅s

鈥淕ardens and poems are places we go to excavate ourselves.鈥 Poet Tess Taylor 鈥00, 听writing in the Fall issue of Amherst magazine.

Congratulations, Mammoths!

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The Amherst men's soccer team congratulate St. Olaf on their NCAA Division III win.

Congratulations to the 尘别苍鈥檚 soccer team on an outstanding season, collecting the national runner-up trophy for the third time in the last four seasons at the NCAA Division III Championship game. . (Photo credit: Dan Hunter: d3photography.com)

Go Mammoths!

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Men's soccer team celebrate their semi final victory.

Congratulations to the men's soccer team on their win over Washington & Lee in the NCAA Division III semi-final! They'll face St. Olaf for the final on Sunday, Dec. 3 at noon. . (Photo credit: Dan Hunter: d3photography.com)

Congratulations, Coach Paradis!

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Christine Parradis

鈥淚 do believe we are all bridges--as we link the past with the future through the span of our careers.鈥 Longtime women's lacrosse coach Christine Paradis, speaking at the Nov. 16 ceremony marking her induction into the .

Congratulations, Mammoths!

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The 电车无码 men's soccer team poses for a group photo.

Congratulations to 尘别苍鈥檚 soccer for making it to the NCAA Final Four! The Mammoths will face Washington & Lee in the national semifinals on Dec. 1. Read the story:

Amherst Voices: Heid E. Erdrich

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鈥淭he future of Native art is being revealed.鈥 Heid E. Erdrich, guest curator for 鈥淏oundless,鈥 a Mead Art Museum exhibit, in the new Amherst magazine.

Amherst Voices: Roxane Main 鈥25

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鈥淚鈥檓 trying to find a new way to help my community by finding a bridge between Western education and Indigenous values.鈥 Roxane Main 鈥25 the first Amherst student to win a Udall Scholarship to address environmental challenges affecting Native nations.

Amherst Celebrates

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Congratulations to the and soccer teams for capturing their second consecutive NESCAC championship wins!

Amherst Voices: President Michael A. Elliott 鈥92

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鈥 I can assure you that you will write subpar essays鈹I surely did. And on the other side of that experience will not be failure, but something else: learning.鈥 President Michael A. Elliott 鈥92, offering words of wisdom about college life to current students.

Amherst Voice: Ash Smith 鈥18

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鈥淚t matters to me that my work is meaningful and has some kind of impact.鈥 Ash Smith 鈥18, who is doing research for BREHA, Amherst鈥檚 new Black Feminist Reproductive Justice, Equity & HIV/AIDS Activism Collective.

Amherst Voice: Luke Herzog 鈥24

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鈥淭heater is the most collaborative art form. When you put on a play, it's really putting together a team.鈥 Luke Herzog 鈥24, winner of the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.听

Amherst Voices: Gabriel Echarte 鈥23

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鈥淭hrough teaching, I am reinforcing my commitment to an open and free world.鈥 听Gabriel Echarte 鈥23 on being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Amherst Voices: Matthew McGann

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The first year class gathered in Johnson Chapel.

鈥 I, for one, know 100 percent that they will make a difference in this world.鈥 Matthew McGann, dean of admission and financial aid, speaking of the incoming class of 488 students.

Amherst Voices: Edmund Phelps 鈥55

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An illustration with a chart indicating  various years.

鈥淚 had at long last used my creativity to build a new theory of a nation鈥檚 happiness.鈥 Nobel laureate in economics Edmund Phelps 鈥55, H鈥85 in his new memoir.

Amherst Remembers

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Close up of 9/11 memorial showing alumni Brock Joel Safronoff

鈥淭oday, we mourn, remember, and honor the lives lost on this day 22 years ago, including those of three Amherst alumni鈥擣rederick C. Rimmele III 鈥90, Brock Safronoff 鈥97 and Maurita Tam 鈥 01.鈥 Read 鈥9/11/01: A Dispatch from Campus.鈥

Amherst Voices: Laura Jarrett

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鈥淚 credit Amherst enormously for framing how I look at issues of racial justice and sexism, all of the things I care about deeply, and the things I end up covering on CNN every day.鈥 News anchor Laura Jarrett 鈥07 from the Black Women of 电车无码 podcast series.

Amherst Voices: John Cho

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鈥淵ou learn to say, 鈥業t鈥檚 imperfect, but it works.鈥 People don鈥檛 come for perfection... Perfection is you placing yourself at center.鈥 Actor John Cho in a talk in Amherst鈥檚 Johnson Chapel.听

Amherst Voices: Bruce Becker 鈥80

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Quote by arhitect Bruce Becker about the Hotel Marcel

鈥淚t鈥檚 like walking into Mad Men.鈥 Architect Bruce Becker 鈥80 on his award-winning, environmentally innovative hotel, The Marcel.

Amherst Voices: Leo Kamin 鈥25

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Quote about Haoran Tong by Leo Kamin

鈥淗is time at Amherst is a testament to Tong鈥檚 belief that home is a verb, not a noun.鈥 Leo Kamin 鈥25 on Haoran Tong 鈥23, in 鈥The Pride of Amherst.鈥

Amherst Voices: President Michael A. Elliott

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the 电车无码 seal with a quote by President Elliott

鈥淲e remain resolute in our commitment to recruit and support a diverse community of scholars within the bounds of the law.鈥 President Michael Elliott responds to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding race-conscious admissions practices.

Amherst Voices: Ilan Stavans

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Quote by Ilan Stavans

鈥淚n un placete de La Mancha of which nombre no quiero remembrearme, viv铆a, not so long ago, uno de esos gentlemen who always tienen una lanza in the rack, una buckler antigua, a skinny caballo y un greyhound para el chase.鈥 Professor Ilan Stavans, in his Spanglish translation of Don Quixote, from the new issue of Amherst magazine.

Amherst Voices: Niki Russ Federman 鈥99

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Quote by Niki Russ Federman

鈥滻 think I was drawn to it on some subconscious level, finding my own entryway to think about food on a more intellectual level.鈥 Niki Russ Federman 鈥99, co-owner of the New York landmark Russ & Daughters, on her favorite Amherst class.

Amherst Voices: Philip Palmer

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Black and white group portrait of librarians at 电车无码 in 1900 including Belle da Costa Greene.

鈥淭he Amherst photograph is the most exciting discovery we鈥檝e made while preparing for the exhibit.鈥 Philip Palmer, curatorial lead for an exhibit on Belle da Costa Greene听at New York鈥檚 Morgan Library.

Amherst Voices: Jonathan Putnam 鈥88

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Mangos ripening on a tree.

鈥淲e planted thousands and thousands of mango trees. One of my proudest moments was going back years later and seeing how high they鈥檇 grown.鈥澨Jonathan Putnam 鈥88 in the new Amherst magazine.

Amherst Announces

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Announcement about Peter Pouncey

电车无码 mourns the loss of former President Peter Pouncey, who died on May 30. He served from 1984 to 1994 and is remembered for guiding the College through a time of transition into greater stability and diversity.听 Read the story.

Amherst Announces

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Sheree Ohen joins 电车无码 as Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer

电车无码 Names Sheree M. Ohen New Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer. Read the Press release.

Amherst Voices: Marc Schulz 鈥84

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Five people gathered around a table smiling and talking.

鈥淚t can start with a simple text: 鈥業 am thinking about you.鈥欌 Marc Schulz 鈥84, on lessons about human happiness, in an interview in the new issue of Amherst magazine.

Amherst Voices: Lee Spector

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Graphic of a phone with ChatGPT showing.

鈥淭he meaningful part of education is about the transformation of you听and your capabilities.鈥 Lee Spector, the Class of 1993 Professor of Computer Science, speaking at a panel on ChatGPT.

Amherst Voices: Matt McGann

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Exterior of the supreme court building

鈥淚t is not a time to be shy about values.鈥 Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Matthew McGann, in an interview about race-conscious admissions听in higher education

Amherst Voices: Jack Betts 鈥24E

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Quote by Jack Betts about name, image, and likeness.

鈥淚 capitalized on a market that had zero history of finding success.鈥 Jack Betts 鈥24E, on marketing his name, image and likeness听as a Division III athlete.

Amherst Voices: Darryl Harper 鈥90

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Several musicians playing together on a stage.

鈥淭here are not many live-music venues like this anywhere.鈥 Darryl Harper 鈥90, professor and jazz clarinetist, on a new addition to the Town of Amherst.

Amherst Voices: Colin Diver 鈥65

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Illustration by Andrea Cobb

鈥淚t is the life transformation from being dependent on your family to becoming independent. It鈥檚 about coming to discover much more about who you really are.鈥 Colin Diver 鈥65, on the purpose of college, from an interview about his new book on college rankings.

Amherst Announces

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Portraits of honorary degree recipients at 电车无码 2023.

Moderna President, Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Among Six To Be Honored at Commencement. Learn more.

Congratulations, Hall of Famer!!

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Dave Hixon coaching the players during a basketball game.

Congratulations to David Hixon 鈥75, longtime men’s basketball coach with 800+ wins, the first Division III coach to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame!

Amherst Fact

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Students walking past the Science Center at 电车无码

In its new survey of leading liberal arts colleges,听The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education听names Amherst as the only school in the 30-year history of its survey to enroll a first-year class that is more than one-fifth Black.听

Amherst Celebrates: We Are So Proud of You!

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Congratulations, Amherst Mammoths

Congratulations to the hard-playing, history-making Mammoths for their triple-OT runner-up result in the National Championship game. A truly well-played season! .

Amherst Celebrates: Congratulations!!

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Congratulations, Amherst Mammoths

The Mammoths are headed to the Wo尘别苍鈥檚 Ice Hockey National Championship on Sunday, March 19th at 3 PM鈥擥O MAMMOTHS!!

Amherst Voices: Matt McGann

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Quote by Matt McGann about the future of race-conscious admissions.

鈥淗ow can we have a process that allows students to bring their whole selves to Amherst except for [their race and ethnic] identity?鈥 Matt McGann, dean of admission and financial aid, at a recent campus event that centered on the future of race-conscious admissions and the Supreme Court.

Amherst Voices: Ted Conover 鈥80

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Illustration of a van driving up a deserted mountainous road by Elisabetta Bianchi

鈥淭he American firmament was shifting in ways I needed to understand, and these empty, forgotten places seemed an important part of that.鈥 Ted Conover 鈥80, in his new book, Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America鈥檚 Edge.

Amherst Voices: Makena Onjerika 鈥10

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Book cover of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

鈥淭his book left me feeling breathless and small and mortal but also part of a universe that will not ever let me go, not really.鈥 Makena Onjerika 鈥10, reviewing the novel We All Want Impossible Things, by Catherine Newman. 鈥90.

Amherst Voices: Valeria Luiselli

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Books to be featured at LitFest 2023

鈥淪tories are a way of subtracting the future from the past, the only way of finding clarity in hindsight.鈥 Valeria Luiselli in her novel Lost Children Archive. Luiselli is a featured speaker at Amherst鈥檚 upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.

Amherst Voices: Meghan O鈥橰ourke

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A quote by Meghan O'Rourke

鈥淭he people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.鈥 Meghan O鈥橰ourke, in her book The Long Goodbye: A Memoir. O鈥橰ourke is a featured speaker at Amherst鈥檚 upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.

Amherst Voices: Victoria Chang

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A quote by Victoria Chang

鈥淏lame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.鈥 Poet Victoria Chang in her book Obit. Chang is a featured speaker at Amherst鈥檚 upcoming LitFest, an annual celebration of writers and writing. See the LitFest schedule.

Amherst Voices: Hilton Als

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Books to be featured at LitFest 2023

鈥淚f you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything.鈥 Writer, theater critic, and Presidential Scholar Hilton Als, . Als is a featured speaker at Amherst鈥檚 upcoming LitFest.