April 26, 2024 Since it went online in 2022, Amherst’s new high-performance computing cluster is opening doors to numbers-intensive research and analysis—by crunching data that would have made normal computers freeze up.
April 26, 2024 A groundbreaking mathematician and physicist, an award-winning novelist, a pioneering Asian American studies scholar, a renowned environmental activist, an acclaimed musician and a fearless civil rights advocate will each receive an honorary degree from Amherst College during Commencement on Sunday, May 26.
April 23, 2024 Martha M. Umphrey, currently the Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, will serve as its new Provost and Dean of the Faculty, effective July 1.
April 15, 2024 Amherst took a major leap to offer this major—after students and alumni pushed hard for decades. Pawan Dhingra, chair of AAPI studies, discusses how it all came about.