Gent Malushaga ’25 Elected AAS President Malushaga won by a margin of around 80 votes in an election that was waged over email, on Fizz, and in the Val foyer. He ran on a platform of “Community. Transparency. Outreach.”
Scholar Details College’s Historical Ties to the Colonization Movement The speaker, a postdoc at the University of Missouri, Columbia, detailed the college’s connections to the American Colonization Society, which sought to relocate emancipated slaves and freeborn people of color to Liberia.
Campus Police Log: April 9 to April 15 The latest installment of the Campus Police Log, from April 9 to April 15, can be found here.
College Observes Near-total Solar Eclipse Community members and admitted students packed the quad and donned goggles to watch the eclipse, North America’s last for more than 20 years. Others made the three-hour drive north into the path of totality.
AAS E-Board Candidate Statements for 2024-2025 E-Board Candidates for the Association of Amherst Students’ executive board elections on Friday, April 12 have submitted their statements. Speech Night will be held on Wednesday, April 10, at 5 p.m. in Johnson Chapel.
Chemistry Nobel Laureate Talks Quantum Dots, Teamwork Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Moungi Bawendi presented at the college on his discovery and development of “quantum dots,” a crucial building block for technologies like semiconductors, solar cells, and types of TVs, for which he shared last year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Death Row Inmate Keith Lamar Phones Into Symposium and Concert Keith LaMar, death row inmate, phoned in from his cell in Ohio to participate in an on-campus symposium and perform in a live concert at the Drake. LaMar has gained national acclaim as he fights against the death sentence for crimes he says he didn’t commit.