The 2007-08 winter season ended with two NESCAC titles, a national quarterfinal appearance, a pair of national runner-up finishes and 10 individual national championships. With the new season underway, Amherst magazine looks at eight athletes expected to have breakout years.
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Writer and editor Katherine Duke ’05 sat down with Deborah Gewertz, the G. Henry Whitcomb 1874 Professor of Anthropology, just before Thanksgiving to get a scholar’s perspective on the U.S.’s gastronomic holiday.
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George Greenstein, the Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy who is teaching a course this semester titled The Unseen Universe, spoke with Public Affairs Director Peter Rooney recently about new photos of far-off planets orbiting stars other than the sun.
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On the heels of the 250th anniversary of Lord Jeffery Amherst’s arrival in North America, Professor Kevin Sweeney discusses Lord Jeff’s legacy, military acumen and relationship with Native Americans in an Amherst magazine piece and bonus video interview.
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There’s not much of the American Southwest in New England, but the room of Meaghan Stern ’09 does bring a bit of Albuquerque to campus. Stern, a double-major in Spanish and American studies, shows off her room in Amherst magazine’s new Web feature.
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Stanley Rabinowitz’s Ballet’s Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911-1925 marks the first time renowned Russian critic Akim Volynsky’s provocative and influential writings on dance have appeared in English.
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Katherine Duke ’05 catches up with a group of alumni she speaks with frequently--but has never laid eyes on--at the first-ever Planworld tailgate at the Amherst-Williams homecoming football game Nov. 8.
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Carleen Basler speaks about her Race and Politics in the United States course and how she and her undergraduates approach such sensitive issues in the classroom, in the latest installment of Who Knows.
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Built in 1870 out of local stone, Stearns Steeple and its nine bells are all that remain of of the College Church. Samuel Masinter ’04 joins Aaron Hayden for a climb into the belfry to find out why the structure still stands.
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Anthony W. Marx discusses the current economic conditions and how the college will respond.
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