David Foster Wallace, novelist, dies at 46 Sep 15, 2008
At Amherst College, he majored in philosophy and had planned on embarking on a career in mathematics or philosophy. But after graduation from Amherst in 1987, he enrolled in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, where he wrote his first novel, "The Broom of the System," which was praised by critics. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
For this composer, one opera won't do Sep 14, 2008
He studied piano as a kid and played in a soul band but never considered a career in composing until midway through his undergraduate days at Amherst College. The composer Lewis Spratlan was his teacher then, and has followed his career closely through the years. (Boston Globe)
Malden grad mounts probate write-in campaign Sep 10, 2008
A graduate of Amherst College and Suffolk Law School, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1995 and has a wife, Joanne, and four school-aged children. He is a registered financial representative, a third Degree Mason, a past member of the Billerica Conservation Commission and Director of the Chamber of Commerce. (Malden Observer, MA)
Kurek's goal wins it for CGA Sep 7, 2008
Abby Hine scored for Connecticut College in a 3-1 loss to Amherst College in the NESCAC season-opener for both teams. Robin Edwards made 10 saves for Conn (0-1, 0-1). (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Stanton Wesley Putnam dies at 80; committed to social issues Sep 6, 2008
When they bought a house in Amherst while King was chaplain for Amherst College and an interim pastor at Smith College in Northampton, Mr. Putnam took a job at Lauriat's bookstore in Northampton. While in Amherst, Mr. Putnam worked on student-life issues as liaison between the dean and students at the University of Massachusetts. (Boston Globe)
Danvers teens in transition Sep 6, 2008
At the top of the list are Williams College, Bowdoin College, Tufts University, and Amherst College, none of which is easy to get into. Thibodeau describes himself as a B student. (Danvers Herald, MA)
Sept. 4 edition: Obituaries Sep 4, 2008
Born and raised in Winthrop he was a graduate of Cushing Academy and Amherst College where he excelled in sports. His college years were interrupted by World War II where he was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corp. After graduating from college Mr. McNeish entered the business world working in sales for U.S. Gypsum. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Lower your ATM scores while you shop colleges Aug 31, 2008
Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke, Smith College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In the Pioneer Valley, country roads wind through bucolic hills to connect this trio of towns that house the Five College Consortium. (Boston Globe)
Pulitzer Prize winner Tad Mosel dies at 86 Aug 27, 2008
He attended Amherst College but left during World War II to join the Army. After the war, he returned to Amherst and then went to the Yale School of Drama and Columbia University before embarking on a writing career. (Concord Monitor)
Column: Its a Dewey kind of month at the library Aug 27, 2008
Dewey first formulated the system in 1873 and used it in the Amherst College Library. Dewey and Dewey Decimal Classification are proprietary trademarks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and are used with permission. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)
National Collegiate Scouting Association Ranks The University Of Notre Dame Fifth In Division I Collegiate Power Rankings Aug 27, 2008
Irish also ranked 12th in the overall power rankings. - The University of Notre Dame is ranked fifth in Division I and 12th overall in the sixth annual National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) Collegiate Power Rankings. (Und.com)
Air Force opens season by hosting Southern Utah Aug 26, 2008
From among the 71 nominations submitted by sports information directors on behalf of their team, a special selection committee assembled by the AFCA and Allstate will select two 11-player Good Works Teams - one composed of players competing in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (I-A) and a combined team representing players competing in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (I-AA), Divisions II, III, and the NAIA. The 2008 Allstate AFCA Good Works Teams voting panel includes: Allstate... (Airforcesports.com)
Engle Named Army Head Coach of Cross Country and Track and Field Programs Aug 26, 2008
Engle earned his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1983 where he starred for four years on the track circuit. While working towards his master's degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1985), he qualified for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he placed sixth in the 50-kilometer racewalk and 11th in the 20-kilometer racewalk. (Patriotleague.com)
The poet and the colonel Aug 24, 2008
William H. Pritchard is professor of English at Amherst College. His most recent book is "Updike: America's Man of Letters.". (Boston Globe)
Harvard leads pack once again Aug 23, 2008
Amherst College, Williams College, Swarthmore College, and Wellesley College claimed the top four positions among liberal arts colleges, while the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Michigan were named the top four public universities. Joking aside, university officials are deeply conflicted over the rankings, which enjoy a vast readership and influence over colleges' reputations. (Boston Globe)
College officials criticize rankings; 4 in area make list Aug 23, 2008
According to U.S. News Report, Harvard University was ranked as the top national university, while Amherst College was named the top liberal arts college. Upstate New Yorks top university was Cornell University in Ithaca, ranked 14th, while its highest ranking liberal arts college was Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, ranked 11th. (Schenectady Gazette)
Area colleges, universities earn high marks from U.S. News Aug 22, 2008
The top-ranked school in the liberal arts category is Amherst College in Massachusetts. IWU is among many schools in the top tier that continued a protest of the peer assessment portion of the rankings, refusing to participate, said IWU spokesman Matt Kurz. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
New leaders at Weston schools Aug 22, 2008
Craw has a B.A. degree in biology from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He has a M.A.T. degree in biology from Brown University in Rhode Island. (Westport Minuteman, CT)
Keeping score around New England Aug 14, 2008
Amateurs A quality qualifier In a US Mid-Amateur qualifier in Mahopac, N.Y., Justin Sharaf of Danvers, a former St. John's Prep and Amherst College golf captain, shot 72 to make it through. Three area golfers - Michael Arter of Lakeville, Andrew Bisbee of West Bridgewater, and David Palmer of Norwich, Conn. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
DeFilippi to head American Hospital Association's Board of Trustees Aug 11, 2008
De Filippi earned a bachelor s degree from Amherst College in Amherst, and his master s and doctorate in chemical engineering from MIT.. The American Hospital Association is a not-for-profit association of healthcare provider organizations that are committed to health improvement in their communities. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Memories from the Museum: Wallace Weed Aug 10, 2008
After being educated at Phillips Andover Academy and Amherst College, Weed returned to Marblehead to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elizabeth Graves. He became one of Marblehead s first postmen and in his leisure time wrote verses like the example below, many of which appeared in the Marblehead Messenger. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Education notes Aug 6, 2008
net, grew from a successful program teaming college students from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Hampshire College and Amherst College directly with youth programs in Holyoke, to prepare disadvantaged teenagers for college or career. The project was funded by a three-year $498,000 Community Outreach Partnership Center grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administered by UMass-Amherst. (Georgetown Record, MA)
Leonid Khrushchev's daughter sues to defend his name Aug 3, 2008
William C. Taubman of Amherst College, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 biography of Nikita Khrushchev, rejects stories of Leonid's alleged defection and execution. "I'm convinced Leonid was shot down and killed in the war, and that he was neither a captive nor collaborator of the Germans," he wrote in an e-mail. (Boston Globe)
Cambridge Health Alliance trustee elected American Hospital Association chairman Jul 30, 2008
De Filippi earned a bachelor s degree from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. and his master s and doctorate in chemical engineering from MIT.. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Obama's Challenges Jul 29, 2008
So as Bass, a black Amherst College sophomore from the Chicago suburbs, worked in 93-degree heat to canvass the bus stop in Macon -- which sits in front of a defunct railroad station that still has the words "Colored Waiting Room" etched above an archway -- she had to deploy a full range of tools. She linked the election to local issues such as rising bus fares. (CBS News)
For Obama, hurdles in expanding black vote Jul 28, 2008
Trying to persuadeSo as Bass, a black Amherst College sophomore from the Chicago suburbs, worked in 93-degree heat to canvass the bus stop in Macon -- which sits in front of a defunct railroad station that still has the words "Colored Waiting Room" etched above an archway -- she had to deploy a full range of tools. She linked the election to local issues such as rising bus fares. (MSNBC -- Politics)
J. Jackson Walter, 67; former ethics watchdog, preservationist Jul 25, 2008
He was a 1962 graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts and a 1966 graduate of Yale University's law school. He signaled an early interest in preservation by attending lectures on urban planning by Yale architecture scholar Vincent Scully. (Boston Globe)
At Berea College, 'the best education money can't buy,' sets an example Jul 22, 2008
"Asking whether that's where our values lead us is a powerful way to consider what our values are," said Anthony Marx, the president of Amherst College in Massachusetts, who considered the possibility of using Amherst's $1 million-per-student endowment to offer free tuition but concluded that it would make no sense, given Amherst's more affluent student body and given that the college already subsidizes about half the cost of each student's education. Today in Americas. (International Herald Tribune)
Graduates and Awards, July 17 Jul 17, 2008
Jason P. Apruzzese, son of Mr. Vincent J. Apruzzese and Mrs. Beverly A. Apruzzese, graduated Sunday, May 25 from Amherst College. Mary K. Conceison, Michael S. DeBye, Hanna Kwak and Stephanie Rose received bachelor s degrees during commencement ceremonies at Stonehill College. (Burlington Union, MA)
Grady CEO finalists called 'a good group' Jul 15, 2008
" Personnel file Age: 52 Birthplace: Baton Rouge, La. Current Position: Interim CEO, LSU Health Care Services Division. Education: Bachelor's degree, Amherst College; medical degree, Tulane University; master's in health administration, Tulane. Experience: Chief medical officer, LSU Health Care Services Division, 1999-2007; CEO, South Louisiana Medical Associates, and medical director, Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center, 1997-2001. Family: Married; two children. MICHAEL YOUNG Michael Young said... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Keep an eye on these Kids Jul 13, 2008
Express' to Vineyard Amherst College alum and footballer Rob Brown will speak at an advance screening of his new movie "The Express" at the sixth annual Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival, planned for Aug. 6-9. Brown, who got his big break with Sean Connery in "Finding Forrester" and also starred with Samuel L. Jackson in "Coach Carter," now plays college running back Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in "The Express," also starring Dennis Quaid and... (Boston Globe)
IN MY LIBRARY: STEPHEN COLLINS Jul 13, 2008
Not only did he go to 00004000 Amherst College (where he sang in an a cappella group with David Eisenhower, Julie Nixon's future hubby), but he's also a director, playwright and best-selling novelist ("Eye Contact," "Double Exposure"). He's also an avid reader. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Honors: July 10 Jul 13, 2008
Fine plans to attend Amherst College. Soyt is the son of Tova Soyt. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Academic Achievers Jul 13, 2008
Brittany Q. Sasser, daughter of Prof William E. Sasser, Jr. and Ms. Constance J. Sasser, graduated Sunday, May 25 from Amherst College. Sasser, who majored in anthropology and received Amherst's bachelor of arts degree. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
WUSA9.com | Washington, DC | Bicyclist Killed... Jul 13, 2008
According to Swanson's entry on the MEI website, she is originally from Northborough, Massachusetts and a graduate of Amherst College. She got her degree in Middle East History. (W-USA News, DC)
Why we're all moral hypocrites Jul 8, 2008
This suggests that we are but "when we are given time to think about it, we construct arguments about why what we did wasnt that bad," said lead researcher Piercarlo Valdesolo, who conducted this study at Northeastern University and is now a professor at Amherst College. The study, funded by the university, will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. (MSNBC -- Health)
Foreign students flock to the US Jul 5, 2008
Officials at Harvard, Amherst College, and MIT report increases in international enrollment, but say their financial aid packages make money less of a concern. Since most colleges offer limited scholarships to foreigners, international students tend to be well off to begin with, others say. (Boston Globe)
Refco's Bennett, Cambridge Graduate, to Join Ivy League Alums Behind Bars Jul 3, 2008
the Manhattan District Attorney who is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School, issued this warning. No matter what your position is in life or where you went to school, if you commit a crime in our jurisdiction, we'll be happy to prosecute you. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Recalling that fateful night at Ford's Theatre Jun 20, 2008
Sawyer, who teaches music at nearby Amherst College, says that he and Shoptaw - a Berkeley poet and longtime friend - were struck by the idea of Lincoln watching a farce about a buffoonish American visiting his genteel English cousins at a time when the bloodiest chapter in the nation's history had just come to an close. It was just the kind of anomalous situation that can give an opera its productive tension. (Boston Globe)
Feldman, Moss earn ECAC Second Team Jun 20, 2008
She also tallied three goals and an assist in Endicott NCAA loss to Amherst College. a TCCC First Team selection, was the anchor of the Gulls' defense. (Ecgulls.com)
Doubles teams save the day Jun 19, 2008
He will play tennis for Amherst College next year. While his little sister has already played on a team that won the state title that eluded the big brother and the boys team, Nithila isn t claiming family bragging rights just yet. (Acton Beacon, MA)
Soulless At The Core Jun 15, 2008
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. E-mail him at books@sf chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Kolkata boy bowls over US varsities Jun 10, 2008
His other scholarships have even more jaw-dropping amounts: Yale $53,764, Caltech $48,490, MIT $51,540, Williams College (1st among undergraduate liberal arts colleges) $50,390 and Amherst College $51,832. Rik has also won the Angier B Duke Memorial Merit Scholarship from Duke University, which is awarded to only two students worldwide. (India Times, India)
Health/Science Calendar Jun 9, 2008
Keynote at 4:30 p.m., Pruyne Hall, Fayerweather, Amherst College, 220 S. Pleasant St., Amherst. Events continue through Sunday. (Boston Globe)
Richard Lower, 78, surgeon, pioneer in heart transplants Jun 3, 2008
He graduated from Amherst College and earned his medical degree from Cornell University in 1955. He was an assistant professor of surgery at Stanford before moving to the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was named a professor of surgery in 1967. (Boston Globe)
Easton seeks fair share from Stonehill May 28, 2008
Colton noted that Amherst College and the town of Amherst signed an agreement in March under which the college will pay the town $120,000 in 2009, with public safety costs central to negotiations. Colton said Stonehill defrays some of the cost of police services in Easton by using its own security force. (Easton Journal, MA)
Creating a global brain May 27, 2008
If these concepts catch on and start to gain acceptance, then 2008 might turn out to be the greatest year for information organization since 1876 the year a young assistant librarian at Amherst College named Melvil Dewey got so fed up with the disorganization that reigned in libraries that he devised a system for classifying and ordering books using a series of decimal numbers. Collective Knowledge Systems The real power of the semantic Web will be realized in applications that bring together... (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Soccer fans' latest fling needs policing May 27, 2008
Prince Albert of Monaco is turning to a former Amherst College soccer teammate to run the principality's entry in France's Ligue 1. Jerome de Bontin, an investment executive (Mekar Financial Services, Sustainability Investments) who has been living near Chicago and is on the US Soccer Federation technical committee, has been named the president of AS Monaco. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Loeffler Joins Lafayette Men's Basketball Staff as Top Assistant May 21, 2008
His squad earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where it knocked off Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Ramapo College to reach the Sweet 16 before losing to eventual national champion Amherst College. Stevens finished the year ranked 24th in the country in the D3hoops. (Goleopards.com)
Events listings May 18, 2008
Ko Festival of Performance Holden Theater, Amherst College, Amherst. 413-427-6147 before 7/7; 413-542-3750 thereafter. (Boston Globe)
Fair Isaac chief to join Capella board May 15, 2008
He holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a doctorate from the University of Michigan. cwyant@bizjournals. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Colleges: Less 'stuff,' more money May 15, 2008
Tangible items "are wonderful in their own way, (but) unrestricted gifts are perhaps more valuable to an institution," says Rob Schur, an assistant director in the development office at Amherst College in Massachusetts, which formalized such a plan in 2003. School administrators and philanthropists say the goal is less about dollar amounts and more about cultivating a new generation of alumni givers. (USA Today)
Harvard, Ivy League Get Low Grades in Courting Poor Kids With Free Tuition May 12, 2008
A Massachusetts legislator last week proposed taxing endowments of Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College and other wealthy private schools to help plug the state's budget gap. If they limit their enrollments to wealthy students they are basically enriching the rich and impoverishing the poor,'' said , 65, senior scholar for the Washington- based Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. (Bloomberg -- US)
Pricey school, hidden costs May 11, 2008
"Don't look up, it's gross," said Cathy Leung, who is headed to Amherst College. "Some rooms don't even have windows," said Juliet Yuan, bound for Northwestern. (Boston Globe)
Douglas Wilson, 67, journalist, academic May 9, 2008
Douglas C. Wilson, a longtime journalist and Amherst College official, died Monday of cancer at his Amherst home ... Mr. Wilson graduated from Amherst College in 1962 and earned a master's degree from Tufts University ... He edited a compilation of essays on the school titled "Passages of Time: Narratives in the History of Amherst College.". (Boston Globe)
Lawmakers target $1b endowments May 8, 2008
In addition to Harvard, the legislation would affect Amherst College, Boston College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Tufts University, Wellesley College, and Williams College ... Amherst College's treasurer Peter Shea said that the idea would be "unfortunate" and that the college relies on its $1. (Boston Globe)
NHS grad turns football pro May 8, 2008
He never played organized football before that training camp, having played soccer and ran track instead at Amherst College. Peter Hauschka said the family wishes his son the best. (Needham Tab, MA)
Endicott ousted in NCAA First Round by Amherst May 8, 2008
- Amherst College used a 9-1 run to move past visiting Endicott College, 16-7, in the First Round of the 2008 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship on Wednesday afternoon in Amherst, Massachusetts ... Information Courtesy of Amherst College Sports Information. (Ecgulls.com)
Bracket released, Gulls will meet Amherst May 6, 2008
Endicott will match-up with Amherst College on Wednesday ... - The Endicott College women's lacrosse team won't have to travel far to square-off with its First Round opponent in the NCAA Div. III Tournament, as the Gulls will meet Amherst College on Wednesday afternoon in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Ecgulls.com)
Gulls sweep weekly awards May 6, 2008
The Gulls will take on Amherst College (13-3) in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament on Wednesday in Amherst, Mass. Game time is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.. (Ecgulls.com)
The more we imprison, the less we vote May 5, 2008
FOR THE past 12 weeks, we have both been students in an Amherst College class on citizenship ... Conor Clarke is an Amherst College student; Greg Yothers is an inmate at the Hampshire County Correctional Facility. (Boston Globe)
One Hundred Years of Solitude May 2, 2008
Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College in Massachusetts, is author of On Borrowed Words and editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. His Resurrecting Hebrew is due out in September. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Why Don't Modern Poems Rhyme, Etc. Apr 18, 2008
"I tie my HatI crease my Shawl" by Emily Dickinson reprinted electronically by permission of the publishers and the trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the president and fellows of Harvard College. (Slate)
Record Wait List Led by Amherst, Yale, MIT Brings High Anxiety to Students Apr 17, 2008
Yale and Princeton universities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Amherst College are among top-ranked U.S. schools that increased, by as much as 50 to 90 percent, the number of students told this month they may be accepted only if those already admitted decline to attend ... It really kind of blows our procedure for the wait list out of the water,'' said Tom Parker, dean of admissions and financial aid at Amherst College, in Massachusetts. (Bloomberg)
Women's Results Apr 13, 2008
07 1 5 Amherst College 'A' 4:02 ... 87 2 Women - Team Rankings - 19 Events Scored =============================================================================== 1) Albany, University at 223 2) Massachusetts, University 137 3) Boston College 95 4) Williams College 73 5) Hartford, University of 59 6) Amherst College 44 7) Central Connecticut State 43 8) Stony Brook University 33 9) Westfield State College 25. (Umassathletics.com)
