Amherst College Announcement Archives

From the Office of Financial Aid: Save Money with Direct Loan Consolidation; Deadline July 1
Whether you are graduating this spring or will be returning next fall, take advantage of substantial savings by consolidating your Federal Direct Stafford/Ford Loans now! Federal Direct Student Loan interest rates increase on July 1, 2006. The current variable interest rates of 4.7% (in-school/grace/deferment) and 5.3% (repayment) will expire on June 30, 2006. New loans will be at a fixed interest rate of 6.8%. Borrowers must apply before July 1, 2006, to have their past Federal Direct Loans consolidated and locked into this year’s interest rates. Borrowers retain all the benefits they received when they initially took out their Federal Direct Loans. For details, visit http://www.loanconsolidation.ed.gov/index.shtml
For more information: www.loanconsolidation.ed.gov/index.shtml

19th-Century Children’s Circus at Dickinson Museum July 1
The Emily Dickinson Museum will celebrate the 150th anniversary of The Evergreens from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 1, with ‘“Creatures of Bliss and Mystery’: A 19th-Century Children’s Circus and Open House.” The festivities are free and open to the public. During the event visitors will also be able to take the museum’s new visitor tour, “This was a Poet” at half-price.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/2006%202007/2006_06circusdickinson.html

Suzanne R. Coffey Is Named Athletic Director at Amherst College
Suzanne R. Coffey, director of athletics and associate professor of physical education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, has been named athletic director at Amherst College. Her appointment is effective August 1.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/2006_2007/2006_06coffey.html

Commencement Photos, Audio Online
Photos of Saturday's Senior Class Exercises and Sunday's Commencement Exercises are online. Audio will be posted soon. Congratulations to the Class of 2006!
For more information: www.amherst.edu/commencement

Copeland Fellows 2006-07 Announced
Five new Copeland Fellows for the academic year 2006-07 have just been announced: Joshua Barkan, Richard Byrne, Darryl Harper, Katia Kapovich and Paola Loreto.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~deanfac/copelandfellows0607.pdf

Curious Footprints: New Book by Nancy Pick and Frank Ward about Amherst College's Dinosaur Tracks and Natural History Collection
Few people realize that Amherst College holds the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks. A new book explores how an evangelical minister (and college president) named Edward Hitchcock assembled that collection in the mid-1800s, while arguing that the tracks were made not by dinosaurs but by gigantic ancient birds. Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock’s Dinosaur Tracks and Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College ($20, paper, 121 pp., Amherst College Press, Amherst, Mass. 2006) combines a charming biographical sketch of Hitchcock, written by Nancy Pick, with Frank Ward’s stunning color photographs of the college’s broader natural history collections. In his images, Ward captures the humor in a pair of dried pufferfish and the mystery in a shrouded skeleton of a gibbon.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/2006_2007/2006_06wardpickcurious.html

Anti-Slavery Talk Given at Amherst College to be Preserved by Library of Congress
The African Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the United States Library of Congress has selected the audio recording of a February 23 Amherst College talk by activist Francis Bok for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials related to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. The talk was recorded by the Amherst Recording Council (http://www.amherst.edu/~arc ). ARC was founded by Nick Doty (Amherst ’06) in the spring of 2004 to record lectures and events on campus, so that the college might have “a record of the various and interesting goings on” and “remember as an intellectual community, including students, professors and alumni, the richness and diversity of opinion, polemic, reflection and creativity that we are so fortunate to possess.”
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/2006_2007/2006_06bokantislavery.html

“Poetry in the Garden” at Emily Dickinson Museum July 23
“Poetry in the Garden” returns to the Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens, on three Sundays this summer. The series of readings will take place in the garden at the Dickinson Homestead (280 Main Street.) At 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 9, Margaret Lloyd, professor of English at Springfield College, will present “Emily Dickinson and the Soul.” At 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 16, David Porter will read poems on the theme “Traveling the Reader’s Mind, and the World, with Emily Dickinson.” At 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 23 “Emily Dickinson and Geography” will be the focus of Sarah Willburn of Trinity College. The readings are free and open to the public. Parking is available on Main Street and side streets in downtown Amherst. Some seating will be provided, but audience members are invited to bring blankets or lawn chairs. In the case of rain, the events will move indoors.
For more information: www.amherst.edu/~pubaff/news/news_releases/2006_2007/2006_06dickinson%20garden.html

Biology Lecture July 26
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Teachers' Workshop "Biology in the Genomic Age" will present a seminar on Wednesday, July 26, in Merrill 4 at 4 p.m. Dr. Julie Segre '87, investigator, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, will talk on "Genomics-based hypotheses directing dissection of gene regulation: How to build and repair the skin's barrier." There will be refreshments at 3:45 p.m. in Merrill 4.

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