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Caelen McQuilkin '24E

Caelen McQuilkin '24E

Caelen is a features editor and English and American Studies major from the high desert of Eastern California. She loves reporting as a means to better fill in the complex picture of a place.

Thoughts on Theses: Eric Jung

Eric Jung is a biology major. His thesis investigates the migration and motility of the single-celled organism dictyostelium discoideum. His thesis advisor is Assistant Professor of Biology Marc Edwards. Q: What is your thesis about? A: We use this one little amoeba, which is a single-celled organism called ‘dictyostelium discoideum.

Budgetary Committee Funding Shifts to Exclude Online and Remote Activities

As Covid has rocked every campus operation, from how students gather to how much tuition they pay, the Association of Amherst Students (AAS) has adjusted its funding and budgetary policy for the fall semester. Student activity fees have been reduced for students studying on campus and eliminated for those studying

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz ’64 Addresses Failures in U.S. Economic Response to Coronavirus

Joseph Stiglitz ’64, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia Business School professor, joined trustee David Novak ’91 on April 28 in a virtual panel on the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, via a live-stream open to the college community [https://www.amherst.edu/news/covid-19/videos-covid-conversations-thinking-through-the-pandemic] . Stiglitz considered the

College PPE Donations Bolster Local Hospitals, Emergency Services

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to deplete hospitals and emergency services of the resources required to treat patients of the virus, the college has begun donating masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment (PPE) to local essential services, such as the Baystate Medical Center, the Amherst Fire Department (AFD) and

Uncertainty and Hope as Staff Adapt to Remote Working Conditions

A wide variety of changes to the duties of essential staff members have moved swiftly across campus in the wake of the college’s decision to move to a remote work model on March 15 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes to the jobs remaining on campus, which include