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Emily Gold Boutilier
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Betsy Cannon Smith ’84
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Ronn Campisi
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Katherine Duke ’05
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Katharine Whittemore
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Michael Reid
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She swore off social media for a year, then asked other Amherst people what they liked/unliked about their own online presence.
As a university dean and then as a college president, Colin Diver ’65 grew ever more certain that the college-ranking industry in our country is deeply problematic.
Could an ultra-customized medicine for one child offer answers for millions of others?
Waiting outside the Supreme Court, posing for Annie Leibovitz, reopening the Drake and more.
’80s teen horror from Jenna Lamia ’00E; Ted Conover ’80 goes off the grid; Catherine Newman ’90 takes on Impossible Things; and three novels from alumni.
Amherst magazine won a 2021 silver award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for best general interest magazine, and Amherst contributing writer Naomi Shulman’s article His Biggest Fear is We’ll Go Back to Normal won a 2021 CASE silver award for in the profile writing category.
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