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Chemist Julian Howard Gibbs 1947, former President of Amherst College (won the High Polymer Prize of the American Physical Society, 1967) Neuroscientist James Olds 1947, one of the foremost psychologists of the twentieth century; Political Scientist Richard Fenno 1948, namesake of Fenno's paradox and Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize
Amherst College (/ ˈ æ m ər s t / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
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The Five College Consortium (often referred to as simply the Five Colleges) comprises four liberal arts colleges and one university in the Connecticut River Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, totaling approximately 38,000 students. [1]
A. Lawrence Fraser Abbott; John Abele; Charles Baker Adams; Herbert Baxter Adams; Anna Aizer; Albert II, Prince of Monaco; Allan Albert; John Alcock (behavioral ecologist)
The MFA Program for Poets & Writers is a graduate creative writing program founded in 1963 and is part of the English Department at the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. [ 5 ] References
William A. Stearns was born in Bedford, Massachusetts on March 17, 1805. [1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1827 and then Andover Seminary in 1831. Stearns served as pastor of Prospect Street Congregational Church from 1831 to 1854 when he left to become president of Amherst College.
Mount Pleasant Classical Institute, was a boarding school for boys in Amherst, Massachusetts.It operated for five years from 1827 to 1832, and served ages 4–16. It was founded by Amherst College graduates Chauncey Colton D. D. and Francis Fellowes, his brother in-law.