Topic: Amherst College

Asian Pop: Paperback tigers

0 . The last thing Asian parents want is for their kids to grow up to be cartoonists ... or journalists. Jeff Yang and a bunch of other guys who've...

Down to a science

0 . Bill Amend put his physics degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts to good use. His syndicated comic strip, FoxTrot, is filled with...

Hermann Joseph Muller

Experimenting with fruit flies, Muller found that mutations (changes in the structure of the genes) can be X rays. Muller's work took on added significance after the introduction of nuclear weapons and the realization of the effects that nuclear explosions can ...

Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., a privately endowed research library. The trustees of Amherst College administer the library with...

Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college offering B.A. degrees in 33 areas of study. It is a member of the Five Colleges Consortium in Massachusetts . Amherst College was founded by a former president of Williams College , who felt a ...

Lukasz Zbylut

Lukasz Zbylut is a New York City teenager who was admitted into the 2008 classes of seven Ivy League institutions. While in high school, Zbylut founded the school's debate team, was president of the United Nations team, editor of the school ...

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Faryn is a 2010 graduate of Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and has been volunteering at Habitat for Humanity since her graduation..

Bioforce Hires Faryn Keith

Faryn is a 2010 graduate of Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., and has been volunteering at Habitat for Humanity since her graduation..

Didgeridoos for Father's Day?

From street corners in Hollywood, California, tothe beaches of Cape Cod, there have been a growing number of sightings of?Didge Geeks,? their lips pressed to these 3-foot long, hollow tubes thatoriginated in Australiathousands of years ago, and are now the hottest ...
Justas soon as high school graduation draws near for the present generation ofseniors, plans for higher education begin to surface. In fact, out of themyriad of life plans that I had heard from students? dreams and teachers?recommendations, there was not a ...