News releases from the Amherst College Office of Public Affairshttps://cms.amherst.edu/news/news_releasesTue, 7 May 2013 10:41:03 -0400Tue, 7 May 2013 10:40:54 -0400FeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.2.0)A computer science professor at Amherst College who recently devised and conducted experiments to test the speed of a quantum computing system against conventional computing methods will soon be presenting a paper with her verdict: quantum computing is, “in some cases, really, really fast.”https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/faculty/node/466477Tue, 7 May 2013 10:40:04 -0400Amherst College officials have announced they will pursue an alternate site for a planned new science center, while remaining on track for a 2018 project completion date.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/science_at_amherst/new_science_centerMon, 6 May 2013 09:48:04 -0400(Photos by Rob Mattson/Amherst College, Office of Public Affairs) "City Streets," an Amherst College community event for students, faculty, staff and families, took place on the Valentine Quad, Tuesday evening, April 30, 2013.http://www.flickr.com/photos/amherstcollege/sets/72157633383094663/Mon, 6 May 2013 09:47:00 -0400While studying abroad in England, Jeehae Kim Goddard ’13 took part in regular formal dinners with professors and fellow students. She enjoyed these dinners so much that she decided to bring the concept back to Amherst. Thus were born the Select Dinners, sophisticated meals held this spring for Amherst students of legal drinking age.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/campusbuzz/node/466000Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:33:40 -0400Lindsay Stern '13 and Keri Lambert '13 have both been named Thomas J. Watson Fellows for 2013–14. After graduating from Amherst, they will embark upon months of adventures and learning around the world.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/news_releases/2013/04_2013/node/465820Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:44:36 -0400The Amherst College Entrepreneurs' Society encourages students to look beyond traditional professions and “see the world through the lens of a problem-solver.”https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/campusbuzz/node/464174Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:55 -0400A turn-of-the-century building on the Amherst College campus that once provided power to the campus will be repurposed to provide space on campus for student activities, college officials announced Wednesday.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/news_releases/2013/04_2013/node/464767Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:25:35 -0400Part poster session, part film festival, part concert, Amherst Explorations was a medley of scholarship and performance.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/campusbuzz/node/464713Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:42:03 -0400Virtuosic guitarist and composer Freddie Bryant ’87, labor activist Madeline Janis ’82, veterans’ advocate Paul Rieckhoff ’98, acclaimed civil rights attorney Barry Scheck, hit songwriter Jim Steinman ’69, former Wellesley College President Diana Chapman Walsh and pioneering AIDS researcher Robert Yarchoan ’71 will all receive honorary degrees from Amherst College during its 192nd Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 26, at 10 a.m. on the school’s main quad.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/news_releases/2013/04_2013Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:30:57 -0400Every spring, Amherst College's Office of Residential Life hosts Lip Sync, a competition where groups of students "lip sync," dance and/or perform a skit to a chosen song...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogNfo622BQ&feature=youtu.beWed, 17 Apr 2013 10:28:50 -0400Leading from end-to-end, the second-ranked Amherst men’s basketball team captured the program’s second national championship with an 87-70 victory over Mary Hardin-Baylor in the NCAA Division III title game at Philips Arena.Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:47:47 -0400An agile and speedy vegan dinosaur roughly the height of a pony and the length of an American alligator will be the newest inhabitant of Amherst College’s Beneski Museum of Natural History this spring, thanks to a generous member of the Class of 1977 and his wife.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/news_releases/2013/04_2013/node/463744Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:41:06 -0400Ilan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, has chronicled aspects of his own immigrant experience from Mexico City to the United States in memoirs, poetry, books and graphic novels. For the last several months, he’s been collaborating with a children’s chorus, renowned composers and the Amherst College Concert Choir to add music to his creative repertoire, while bringing talented children and college students together to address the theme that’s consumed much of his creative energy. The end result will appear onstage in Buckley Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 12, when the college and the Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation sponsor the world premiere of Tres Colores, a musical journey of immigration and hope in America.https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/faculty/node/461324Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:40:35 -0400The sunny afternoon of Saturday, March 30, certainly looked and felt like spring—and sounded like it, too. But I was on campus to immerse myself in the more unusual auditory stimuli of Soundfest, a featured event of the 2012–13 Copeland Colloquium: “Art in Place / the Place of Art.”https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/campusbuzz/node/462685Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:40:07 -0400On April 5 at 10 p.m., Jason Robinson will take the stage at Buckley Recital Hall for "Virtual Tour: A Reduced-Carbon-Footprint Concert Series," one of his streaming, multi-site networked concerts with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxIb8155o2s&feature=youtu.beMon, 15 Apr 2013 16:39:35 -0400