Amherst in Pictures Amherst in Pictures 2016

From distinguished visitors to snowy panoramics to the traditions of Commencement, we've assembled some of our favorite images from events and activities over the past year at Amherst College.

Hundreds of alumni returned to Amherst to catch up with friends, attend talks and events, cheer on sports teams, and celebrate Homecoming 2016.

For three days in October, family members gathered at Amherst College to learn, play, eat, explore, and reconnect. 

Amherst College students watch the 2016 Presidential Election returns in Keefe Campus Center on November 8, 2016. 

In “Digital Africas,” Professor Cobham-Sander's students explore how literature has evolved with technology, and how authors use digital formats to transform their relationships with audiences.

Former U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald said that people come into discussions about terrorism with a base of assumptions that experience doesn’t bear out.

Five visiting journalists focused on the problems this election has exposed, how the country might recover, and what the journalists perceived as a complete overturn of traditional politics.

From move-in, to First Squad Meetings, to ice cream socials, Orientation is a multi-day program that introduces the incoming class to the people, places and possibilities of the Amherst experience.

Speaking to a crowd of over 1,4000, National Book Award winner and MacArthur fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates reframed the American dream and said the mission of his life is confronting racism.

Amherst’s celebrated art museum unveiled a renovated main gallery and six new exhibitions and installations showcasing the breadth, depth and diversity of the college's art collection.

The college’s four new residence halls are “...the first of three projects that will be the biggest transformation of physical campus since the founding of the College.” —President Biddy Martin

Thirty-two students received Summer Science Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (SURF) fellowships to do hands-on scientific work this summer. The "lab crawl" is an opportunity to share their work.

Over the summer a group of Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) wandered down to Amherst’s bird sanctuary every morning to study Tree Swallow nestlings, weighing and measuring the baby birds.