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Since 1821, Amherst College has prepared students to use ideas to make a difference in the world. #TerrasIrradient
Amherst, Massachusetts
Joined December 2008
Amherst is welcoming Puerto Rican and U.S. Virgin Island applicants for a special visiting student program and will cover all educational costs related to enrollment, including spring tuition at students' home institutions.
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NEWS: Amherst College is ending the longstanding practice of a legacy admission preference and expanding its financial aid investment to $71 million per year. These changes will assure an Amherst education is within reach for all.
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Congratulations to Dr. @DavidAKesslerMD '73, who has been appointed by @Transition46 to lead the federal program accelerating development of #COVID19 vaccines and treatments.
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Congratulations to Jeremy Thomas '21, who has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the @UniofOxford! 👏 . #AmherstProud
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Congratulations to Jeffrey Wright '87 (@jfreewright), nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for American Fiction! #Oscars2024 👏.
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Due to overwhelming demand, we can no longer respond to individual requests to confirm the graduation year of Uhuru Kenyatta ’85.
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We are thrilled to announce that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has accepted our invitation to speak to the campus community on Oct. 3!
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While social distancing recommendations were observed, this visitor apparently did not get the memo that only essential staff members are allowed on campus right now. Video credit: Amherst College Police Sergeant Jeffrey Edwards and Officer Jessica Kirby.
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Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies Aneeka Henderson (@ProfAHenderson) whose book was recently selected as one of the best Black history books of 2020 by @AAIHS! 👏 #BlackHistoryMonth
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Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Horton (@askdrstats) who has been elected vice president of the American Statistical Association (@AmstatNews)! . Prof. Horton hopes to help ensure statistics is at the core of data science and work toward a more diverse and inclusive profession.
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The number of math majors at Amherst has tripled in the last 12 years. This instructor is one reason why. Here’s the story of "The Math Mom" Danielle Benedetto, the latest winner of the Jeffrey B. Ferguson Teaching Prize:
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Amherst College women’s basketball coach G.P. Gromacki becomes fastest in NCAA history — any division, women or men — to reach 600 wins, earning this feat in 686 games.
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The Amherst College community is mourning the loss of Andrew Dorogi ’18, an economics major and a member of the football team. We extend our deepest sympathies to his family, friends, teammates, coaches, and teachers.
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@realSitienei Thanks for your question. Uhuru Kenyatta graduated from Amherst Colleg in 1985 with a degree in economics & political science.
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A critical COVID-19-related announcement about Spring Break plans, remote learning, attendance restrictions and other important developments.
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Congratulations to Writer-in-Residence Min Jin Lee, who will be inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame today, Oct. 18!
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NEWS: Amherst College and @WilliamsCollege, once known as rivals, will merge campus operations effective Apr. 2, offering a unique opportunity to combine the strengths of two of the nation’s most venerable colleges into an educational powerhouse.
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.@DickinsonMuseum has received a $600,000 gift from longtime friends John and Elizabeth Armstrong for the design and reconstruction of the Evergreens Carriage House. The gift kicks off a major effort to fundraise $3.5 million for the 20th anniversary.
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On Friday, @NAACP President & CEO @CornellWBrooks will give a talk titled "A Woke Democracy." Not to be missed!
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First amendment rights are among the most prized of Amherst’s values; the college encourages all students to engage in civil and meaningful discourse on issues of critical importance. Amherst applicants with concerns about admission can read more here:
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For the @nflnetwork, Avery Saffold '20 shares his experience playing football as an openly gay Black man at Amherst and beyond. He fondly recounts the time @CoachEJMills hosted a Pride @AmherstCollFB game shortly after he came out.
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NEWS: Michael A. Elliott '92 (@mellio2), professor of English and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at @EmoryUniversity, has been named the 20th president of Amherst College. His tenure at Amherst will begin on Aug. 1.
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Amherst mourns the loss today of acclaimed poet, teacher and friend Richard Wilbur '42.
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This fall, Amherst College will offer a new major, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies, becoming the first liberal arts college in the country to offer, on its own, the major. Chair Pawan Dhingra (@phdhingra1) discusses how it all came about.
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Stored in the loft above the garage at the @DickinsonMuseum was the original, 9-ft. tall front door of the Homestead, over four dozen original staircase balusters and much more. Take a look inside the museum's most significant restoration project to date:
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Within the inner circle of the War Memorial, you’ll find the names of 33 Amherst alumni, from the classes of 1899 to 1920, who lost their lives in “the war to end all wars.” Today we remember them and all of our alumni over the years who died for our country.
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After a 42-season career with 800+ wins, eight league championships and two NCAA national titles, David Hixon '75 is hanging up his clipboard and whistle.
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In need of a momentary break from the bad news in the world? We bring you a moment of Zen in the form of these breathtaking fall shots of The Most Beautiful Campus in all of New England™. You're welcome.
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#Amherst2027 recently enjoyed a night of snacks, luminaries, and episodes of the streaming series @Dickinson under the stars at Book and Plow Farm. At the DeMott Lecture on Sept. 3, the new class will hear from series creator Alena Smith. 📸: Maria Stenzel / Communications
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In case you missed it. Over the past few weeks the College's Athletics department has hired four top-notch new coaches! Read more about the most recent additions to the @AmherstMammoths herd. #tusksup #WeAreMammoths #AmherstProud
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Amherst today signed on to an amicus brief in a show of support for a Harvard- and MIT-initiated lawsuit contesting modifications to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program. #WeAreMammoths #AmherstProud
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Amherst College is proud to announce today that the @AmherstMammoths are the first official mascot.
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Avery Saffold '20 talks about what it's like to be a football captain from Chicago South Side—and then make the terrifying decision to finally come out as gay.
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You may have heard about or seen on social media the tribute to our seniors on campus. We didn't want to share anything ourselves until we captured an image of ALL of the names together. Congrats, class of 2020! #Amherst2020 #CelebrateAC2020 #WeAreMammoths
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We are thrilled to congratulate and welcome our newest Mammoths in the Class of 2025! 🦣. Today, notifications for early decision applicants were released at 6:21 pm, or 18:21, honoring the year of Amherst College's founding.
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Today we mourn the passing of Prof. Jeffrey Ferguson. Among his many achievements, Jeff designed the curriculum in Black Studies that has benefited so many Amherst students.
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A Mammoth win. 🦣 Congratulations to the @AmherstMammoths men's soccer team, winners of the 2024 @NCAADIII championship! This is the team's second championship and first since 2015. #AmherstProud. 📸: Ian Maule
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In her book "Female Husbands: A Trans History,” history prof Jen Manion writes about individuals assigned female at birth who chose to live as a man. She spoke to NPR about the treatment of female husbands, as well as modern views on gender and sexuality.
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Baton passed. It's the first official week on the job for Michael A. Elliott '92 (@mellio2), Amherst's 20th president. Welcome, President Elliott!
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President @Biddy_Martin announced this morning that the Board of Trustees has unanimously approved a College’s #ClimateAction Plan that will provide a roadmap for the College to achieve #carbon #neutrality by 2030.
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You did it, Mammoths.✨. You completed the last day of class. Whether you were on or off campus this fall, thank you for everything you did to #ProtectTheHerd and make this semester one for the ages. We hope you enjoy a restful break, and we already miss you.
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A glimpse of campus from sunset to snow: December 14, 2020 and December 17, 2020. ❄️
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Congratulations and welcome to our new Mammoths, early decision applicants in #Amherst2026! 🦣
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Today Amherst issued a statement condemning changes to the federal student visa program:"We will do everything we can, within the confines of the law, to help our international students persist in their studies . an opportunity they have rightly earned."
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Congratulations to professors @kharypolk and Jen Manion (@activisthistory), who were recently selected as finalists for @The_OAH Lawrence W. Levine Award! 👏. The award annually recognizes the author of the best book in American cultural history.
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@_gneiss Thanks for your question. Uhuru Kenyatta graduated from Amherst College in 1985 with a degree in economics & political science.
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Thunderstorms and lightning ⚡ over the Holyoke Range. 📸: Maria Stenzel
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Congrats to Prof. Nick Horton and his Five College Statistics Program colleagues! The group was recently honored by the American Statistical Association for fostering a diverse and inclusive community around statistics and data science.
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Amherst College has received a gift of $50 million by an anonymous donor as part of its comprehensive campaign, "Promise: The Campaign for Amherst’s Third Century."
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NEWS: To mark #Amherst200, Amherst College will make a special $200,000 donation to two of the @TownOfAmherst's important institutions, the historic @JonesLibraryMA and the new arts and cultural performance venue The Drake.
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Congratulations and welcome to our new Mammoths—#Amherst2026! 🦣. Decisions were released today, Mar. 18, at 18:21 (or 6:21 p.m.) in honor of the year of the College's founding.
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#AmherstProud to be listed among the colleges with the most generous #FiinancialAid packages.
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It's the #WinterSolstice - the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. We hope you'll find comfort in the brighter days ahead. But in the meantime, look up at the stars and remember that you can always find light even in the darkest of nights. ⭐
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David Hixon '75 was prepared for the call when it came Monday night. What he wasn't prepared for, however, were the words he heard—that he was soon to become the first Div. III coach enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (@Hoophall).
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@GamecockMBB Hi, @GamecockMBB! Your followers are right--that's a photo of Amherst's North Hall, Johnson Chapel and South College, so you probably want to switch to a @UMassBasketball shot. Good luck to our neighbors and good friends @UMassAmherst! Go #Flagship🚩!.
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Amherst mourns the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who visited the College in 2019. The Justice spoke then about her life's calling and her reaction to being nominated to the court: “I was on cloud nine. It was joy beyond reckoning.”
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On Memorial Day, Amherst held an intimate ceremony for the ten lacrosse players who missed Commencement to compete at the NCAA DIII championship. The event included a presentation of diplomas and remarks by President Biddy Martin.
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Congratulations to our new Mammoths - #Amherst2025!. As we celebrate #Amherst200, we look forward to welcoming you in your first year with us. #BeAMammoth 🦣💜
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Today, @Transition46 announced President-Elect @JoeBiden's and Vice President-Elect @KamalaHarris's new #COVID19 advisory board. Amherst alumni @DavidAKesslerMD '73 and @ZekeEmanuel '79 will join the board as co-chair and member, respectively.
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Huge congratulations to Gardner Watts '35! Amherst's oldest living alumnus turns 104 today. Happy birthday, Gardner! #AmherstProud 🎉🎁🎂🎉
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@gwaweru92 Thanks for your question. We can confirm that Uhuru Kenyatta graduated in 1985 with a degree in economics & political science.
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Today, we joined @TownOfAmherst in remembering and honoring the individuals who lost their lives to #COVID19. At 5:30 pm, Johnson Chapel and the Octagon were illuminated in purple, and the chapel bells rang for five minutes in a moment of collective remembrance and unity.
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We know their names but seldom their stories. One hundred years after the end of World War I, we remember several alumni honored on Amherst’s War Memorial.
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Hall of famer! 👏 Congratulations to David Hixon '75, longtime @AmherstMBball coach with 800+ wins, who will officially be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (@Hoophall)!. Hixon is the first @NCAADIII coach to be enshrined in the hall of fame.
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Nothing quite like a snowy campus 💜. 📸: Haoran Tong '23
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Today, Amherst remembers the three alumni lost on 9/11: Frederick C. Rimmele III ’90, Brock Safronoff ’97 and Maurita Tam ’01.
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Today's the day! Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will hold court on campus this afternoon in a conversation with President Biddy Martin at 5 p.m. in Coolidge Cage. Didn't get a ticket? Watch the livestream—which is now available to all—at
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June marked the first time the @rarebookschool, a Virginia-based institute devoted to teaching the history of books and printing, held a session about Native American books and it all took place in the Amherst archives.
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Amherst College has set a new standard. According to @JBHEdotcom, with 20% of #Amherst2026 identifying as Black, it is the first time a top liberal arts college has enrolled a first-year class that is more than one-fifth Black.
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Today we remember, honor and mourn the victims of 9/11/01, including the three Amherst alumni who died in the attacks, Frederick C. Rimmele III ’90, Brock Safronoff ’97 and Maurita Tam ’01.
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All of us at Amherst would like to express our gratitude for the outpouring of support this week. We also appreciate those expressing frustration and confusion--your questions are enabling us to see gaps in our responses. So, THANK YOU. Wishing health and safety to all.
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Happy Mother's Day, Mammoth Mums! . Gif by Emily Ye '20
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the special guest!.
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Huge congrats to @jfreewright '87 for his Emmy nomination as a supporting actor in @WestworldHBO! #AmherstProud
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Congratulations to our Bicentennial class, the Class of 2021! 🎓
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@ghoverhn All our offices handle school matters and Uhuru Kenyatta graduated in 1985 with a degree in economics and political science.
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And just like that, the new semester begins. Happy first day of classes, Mammoths! 🦣
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Who is that tall, masked person? It's a stilt-walking Harrison Blum, the indefatigable director of religious and spiritual life who is among the many staff and faculty members helping welcome and move students into campus this week. Here are some shots from the first few days.
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Congrats to Jeffrey Hall '67, who won a Nobel Prize! He is the fifth Amherst graduate to receive the award.
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Amherst has joined @BowdoinCollege @hampshirecolg @smithcollege and @WilliamsCollege in a pioneering partnership that will allow the College to replace nearly half its energy use with @#solarpower—and reduce its carbon footprint by 17.5 percent.
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@CpaWaweru Happy to answer questions directed our way. Uhuru Kenyatta graduated in 1985 with a degree in economics & political science.
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Research is critical at a liberal arts institution. And a little research tells us that even your own Special Collections website says that there is no proof that the books were stolen. So, about those library fees. 😉.
Don't forget, @amherstcollege. You owe us $39,058,890 (inflation-adjusted) for those stolen books!.
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