Amherst College News

The question is asked in a new study by the Pew Hispanic Center that looks at a population group of 7.7 million making a historical mark - Hispanics between the ages of 16 to 25.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., -- Several small jazz ensembles coached by Andy Jaffe will perform on Thursday, Dec.

December 9, 2009 by Vernon Parker , published online 12-09-2009 When next you select a package of Birdseye brand frozen food at your grocer you can thank a Brooklynite for having started the whole frozen food industry.

The person deciding collegiate futures is likely overworked and underpaid, with little relevant experience or loyalty to the job.

In the space of two months, Greece got a new prime minister and a new leader of the main opposition party.

It is the season of family, friends and gifts. Books are a gift that educate, entertain and stimulate the imagination.

Amherst has received an improved bond rating that will allow the town to borrow money at lower premium rates, according to the town manager.

In 2006, after Amherst College's Natural History Museum had been housed for nearly 70 years in the stately Pratt Gymnasium, the College invested $10 million to build it a new home.

As the area's first and most eminent geologist, Professor Edward Hitchcock felt it his duty to name features in the landscape, and throughout the Pioneer Valley he has left his mark.

Prime Minister George Papandreou greets the new leader of New Democracy, Antonis Samaras, at the latterA's office.

Anonymous Gossip Sites Time Horny guys, lowbrow debates and run-of-the-mill spam all seem to be in abundant supply on CollegeACB.com . But what sets this site-and others like it-apart from the coarse commentary found on YouTube or, for that matter, a political blog are the personal attacks against private citizens, often with last names included, ...

An illustration by Michael Mazur from "I'll Tell What I Saw: Images from Dante's 'Divine Comedy.' '' Michael Mazur was a painter and printmaker whose life was entwined with the literary world.

So here's what free speech has come to on campus: "Name the freshman sluts!" an anonymous post demands on the Indiana University page of a multischool gossip site.

A team of paleontologists has found the fossil remains of large numbers of jellies at a dig site that date back 445 million years, to a time when a shallow sea known as the Williston Basin covered what's now boreal forest north of Grand Rapids.For the past eight years, Manitoba Museum geography and paleontology curator Graham Young, James W.

By ANNE MORRIS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Anne Morris, a member of the National / The Dallas Morning News s Circle, lives in Austin.

Bruce A. Warren-- one of the world's pre-eminent researchers of deep ocean currents and scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Sverdrup Gold Medal, awarded by the American Meteorological Society .

Kevin Brown met James Baldwin, who he lovingly calls "Jimmy," in 1982 when he was an extra in Baldwin's play The Amen Corner .

Yet more academic libraries are looking to save money by sharing functions. The Five College Librarians Council has released a draft report that addresses cost savings by consolidating acquisition, cataloging, and book processing functions among the Five Colleges, Inc.

President Tony Marx told community leaders on Monday that college trustees have approved $14 million for the project, that was supposed to start last year but was put on hold because of the worldwide economic slump that reduced the school's endowment by about 20 percent.

Chairman and president Wolff Cos. Houston Business Journal - by Christine Hall David Wolff David Wolff is chairman and president of Wolff Cos., a Houston-based holding company that manages his activities and investments in real estate development, financial assets, professional sports and agriculture.