Science Center Features Amherst History of Women in STEM

Past the café, down in the teaching lab area on the first floor, stands a white-washed hallway in the Science Center. To Jess Martin, the administrative director of the Science Center, and her team — Michaela Ednie ’18, HSTEM and Science Center Curation Assistant, and Ana Battaglino ’21 — this blank space was an opportunity. In collaboration with the Association for Women in Science at Amherst, they saw it as an opportunity to create a living, breathing display that showcases women in Science, T

Poet Phillip B. Williams Creates Community Through Amherst Books Poetry Reading

In a quiet nook of Amherst Books, a crowd gathers amidst a cozy feeling of togetherness. Casual conversation punctuated with laughter fills the atmosphere with an excited energy for the guest: Phillip B. Williams. Williams, a profound poet with a personable presence, greets the crowd with a “Hey y’all” — immediately inviting us to join his poetry reading. We were no longer just a speaker and a crowd, but rather a community, sharing in his prose and poetry. In his poetry, specifically his 2016 bo

A Conversation with a Student on the Frontiers of Climate Change

Student Voices from the Frontlines of Climate Change, an event hosted on Nov. 28 by the Students for Climate Action (SCA) and the Association of Amherst Students (AAS), provided an opportunity for students to share the ways in which climate change has impacted their lives. The event sought to implore the college to pass the Climate Action Plan — the draft reccomendation plan for the college to become carbon neutral. Gabriel Echarte ’22, whose home is in Miami Beach, Florida, gave the opening pre