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This is the official Amherst College Facebook page, authored by the College and linked to from Amherst.edu. Amherst College educates young people of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek, value, and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence.
Visitor Guidelines:
Thank you for your interest! We welcome your comments and messages.
While we honor and respect open discussion, we also reserve the right to remove submissions that violate our community standards.
Examples of submissions that will be removed include:
-personal attacks of any kind;
-harassment, intimidation, disparagements or threats to any other person;
-promotions of bigotry or discrimination;
-vulgar, obscene or sexually explicit language;
-posts that are unnecessarily repetitive or copied into multiple threads;
-posts that are clearly off topic;
-promotions of products, services or political organizations;
-solicitations for external fundraising purposes;
-those that forge, maliciously disguise or misrepresent the poster’s identity;
-fraudulent or deceptive messages, including chain mail;
-infringements on copyrights or trademarks;
-promotions of illegal or unlawful activities.
We will also remove posts that violate any of Amherst College’s existing policies.
Please refer to the Social Media Guidelines for more information or email us at social@amherst.edu.
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RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comCongrats to Jeffrey Hall '67, who won a Nobel Prize! He is the fifth Amherst graduate to receive the award.
Amherst College mourns the loss of the victims of the tragedy in Las Vegas and sends deepest condolences to their families.
Today's #QuoteoftheDay comes courtesy of Destry Sibley ’09, a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow who is launching a podcast series devoted child refugees fleeing the Spanish Civil War. https://www.amherst.edu/amherst-story/magazine/issues/2017-summer/amherst-creates/escaping-spain
In August 2013, Amherst's Archives & Special Collections (A&SC) acquired a major collection of books written by Native American Indian authors. Here's a peek at some particularly rare and interesting items.
What does an undergraduate research team look like at Amherst? Here's one hanging out with--well, ON one of the College's founders, Noah Webster.
Before The Scarlet Professor, an opera written by professor Eric Sawyer and directed by Ron Bashford '88, wrapped this past weekend, it got a "10/10" review from Classical Voice North America.
In message to the community tonight, President Martin expressed support and concern for members of the Amherst community affected by the latest federal travel restrictions. "We pride ourselves on our diverse and international intellectual community—it reflects the core values of the College—and vehemently oppose the isolation or exclusion of members of our community based on their country of origin or their religious faith," she wrote.
Amherst fun fact for the day: Best-selling authors Dan Brown '86 and Harlen Coben '84 were fraternity brothers! #literaryamherst
Code runtimes. Kanye West's album "Yeezus." Buddhism. These are just three of the huge range of topics Emmanuel Osunlana '18 has explored at Amherst. Such academic freedom was what drew him to Amherst, he explains in a piece for U.S. News & World Report.
Some great advice from Ben Walker '16 on how to make a Watson Fellowship a true learning experience! (Ben was apparently so busy during his year of travel and study abroad that his jacket became his jammies.)
In the our latest "Amherst in the Field" series, Catherine Brownstein ’97 discusses how her liberal arts education at Amherst prepared her for a profession that didn't even exist when she started her undergraduate work. Intrigued? Just watch.
The Mead's latest show--Rotherwas Project 3, Saya Woolfalk: Life Products and the ChimaCloud--includes videos, sculptures and prints by New York-based artist Saya Woolfalk and is the first to draw inspiration directly from the wood-paneled room mentioned in the exhibition's title.
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