March 18, 2008 e-News
Amherst’s Tom Parker, dean of admission and financial aid, was quoted in a New York Times article on the growing number of high-achieving students contemplating taking a year off before starting college.
March 18, 2008 e-News
The incredible seasons of Amherst’s swimming and diving, women’s basketball, and women’s hockey teams ended this past weekend with stellar efforts in NCAA competition.
Men’s basketball also took to the court for post-season play; the squad advanced to the 2008 National NCAA Division III Final Four for the third straight year with a 65-55 win against Brandeis. The team will take on Ursinus College Friday, Mar. 21 at 5 p.m. Go to http://www.odaconline.com/hoopchamp/ for details about webcasts, audio, live stats and other Final Four info.
March 18, 2008 e-News
Meet the 2008 Wretched Writing Contest winners. Intentionally ugly, disgusting, horrible and near-unreadable poetry and prose is lauded by the college's Writing Center for its creativity and utter wretchedness. Enjoy!
March 18, 2008 e-News
Reducing Global Poverty: April 2-3
Amherst welcomes NYU economics professor and former World Bank research economist William Easterly and 2001 Nobel Laureate and Columbia economics professor Joseph E. Stiglitz ’64 to discuss "Reducing Global Poverty."
Reinstituting the National Draft: April 4–5
Amherst brings Boston University professor of international relations and former U.S. Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich to discuss the National Draft with 2004 presidential candidate and retired four-star U.S. Army General Wesley Clark. Sign-ups are first-come, first-served and limited to 40 people per colloquium.
March 18, 2008 e-News
The Office of Alumni & Parent Programs is pleased to offer alumni e-mail forwarding once again. To request an alumni e-mail address, please send an email to alumhelp@amherst.edu or visit our e-tools page for more information.
March 3, 2008 e-News
Members of the military Matt Flavin ’02, Todd Nichols ’99, Michael Proctor ’02 and Paul Rieckhoff ’98; Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill; columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne; White House insiders Dee Dee Myers and Nicolle Wallace and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton were among several VIPs to visit campus in recent weeks. Go to the Amherst Web site’s multimedia page to listen to their talks, which covered everything from reinstating the draft to women voters to North Korea.
March 3, 2008 e-News
CAMPUS BUZZ -- Read about the inaugural Pratt Prom and other interesting goings-on at the College.
March 3, 2008 e-News
Constance S. Congdon, Amherst’s Playwright-in-Residence, was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant for the commissioning and research for an as-yet-untitled play about water in the Western United States. A prolific writer, Congdon was also featured in a light-hearted Feb. 21 Q&A in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer just prior to the opening of another of her works, The Imaginary Invalid.
March 3, 2008 e-News
The sale of a piece of California property that Roger Holden '19 bequeathed his alma mater made national headlines, starting with a Feb. 13 Bloomberg News wire story that ran in several newspapers across the country.
March 3, 2008 e-News
President Tony W. Marx was quoted in a Feb. 28 Boston Globe article on the growing pressure facing colleges and universities to increase their endowment spending rates. "We need aid policies that ensure access, but that's not the end of the story," he told the newspaper.
March 3, 2008 e-News
The top-seeded Lord Jeffs took on No. 2 Tufts University at LeFrak Gymnasium in the NESCAC Championship game March 2. The Amherst women controlled the game from start to finish and held off a late charge from Tufts to win the program’s first NESCAC title, 59-53.
March 3, 2008 e-News
Arthur Zajonc, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Physics and chair of the physics department at Amherst, was featured in an extensive interview about physics and other science-related topics on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Ideas program.