• Mallory Howe '14

    DSCN1846.JPG I recently had the chance to sit down with Mallory Howe and talk to her a bit about her semester abroad in Prague ! Check out...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Joan Silber

    fools silber.jpg Since fiction writer Joan Silber is coming to Amherst next Wednesday, here’s a little info about her! She grew up in...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Harlan Fiske Stone

    472px-Chief_Justice_Harlan_Fiske_Stone_photograph_circa_1927-1932.jpg Something cool that I just learned: we have a Supreme Court Justice...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Saint Valentine

    St-Valentine-Kneeling-In-Supplication.jpg There is a lot of confusion about how Valentine’s Day came to be. We’ve all heard of St...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Charles M. Pratt '79

    5915825533_7d53be20e8_z.jpg It’s pretty impossible to walk around campus without running into the name “Pratt” carved onto some building. “...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Robert Fagles '55

    539w.jpg As an old Classics nerd, I was excited to find out that Robert Fagles was an Amherst alum. How is this relevant to you? Well, if...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Amherst Football Team

    LineWIL.jpg In honor of this week’s big game, HC Amherst wanted to give a celebrity shout out to the football team. Saturday will be the...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Brian R '17

    HerCampus got the opportunity to interview Brian Royes, one of the new members of the Amherst acapella group, the Zumbyes. This is your...

    By Carina Corbin •

  • Edward Jones '26

    Amherst_College_buildings_-_IMG_6512.JPG Edward Jones was a missionary who was the first black American to graduate from Amherst College...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Rashid Chico Kosber

    image.jpeg Her Campus got the opportunity to interview, Rashid “Chico” Kosber, one of the new freshman senators for the school year 2013-...

    By Carina Corbin •

  • Charles Hamilton Houston

    25%20-%20Charles%20Hamilton%20Houston.jpg Some cool Amherst trivia : the architect of the legal challenge that resulted in Brown vs. Board...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Amherst Town Goat

    photo.JPG At the annual Apple Harvest Crafts Fair and Children's Festival this year, this goat stole the show . He was in a pen with...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • George Mathew '91

    PGM & Orch Mahler 3 concert.jpg Mahler For the Children of AIDS at Carnegie Hall, January 2009. (Photo: Chris Lee 2009) I recently had...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Antonis Samaras '74

    samaras_1.jpg Antonis Samaras ’74 has been the Prime Minister of Greece since 20 June 2012. He was born in Athens in 1951, and lived a...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Calvin Coolidge

    CoolidgeAmherst.png Amherst grad Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was born in Vermont in1872. At Amherst he was in...

    By Evelyn Kramer •

  • Joseph Stiglitz

    stiglitz_joseph3001.jpg One of our most impressive Amherst alums is economist Joseph Stiglitz . He was born in Gary, Indiana and attended...

    By Evelyn Kramer •