Student Affairs Given Jurisdiction Over Resource Centers

On July 1, all resource centers — including the Center for Diversity and Student Leadership, the Center for International Student Engagement, the Multicultural Resource Center, the Queer Resource Center and the Women and Gender Center — moved from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) to the Office of Student Affairs (OSA). The change in responsibility will allow the OSA and ODI to have a greater impact on the Amherst community by promoting diversity and inclusion and allowing faculty to

Thoughts on Theses: Kelsey Choi

Kelsey Choi ’19E is a Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought (LJST) major. Her thesis focuses on the South Korean civil court case on women who were forced into prostitution in camptowns. Her thesis advisor is LJST Professor Michaela Brangan. Q: What is your thesis about?A: I followed a current civil court case in South Korea. After the Korean War, when [the] United States was in South Korea, the Korean government set up camptowns to create recreational sites outside of the U.S. military bases.

Fresh Faculty: Ryan Alvarado

Professor Ryan Alvarado is an assistant professor of mathematics. He majored in mathematics and physics at William Jewell College and received his master’s and doctorate degrees in mathematics from the University of Missouri. Q: How did you first become interested in mathematics?A: I enjoyed the problem-solving aspect of it. I loved being faced with the question of whether or not something is true and solving it. I liked puzzles, and there are a lot of puzzles in math. In college, an awesome un