Assistant Professor of Political Science Jonathan Obert received his bachelor’s degree in history and social science from Wheaton College and his master’s degree in social science and doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. His work focuses on violence and guns in American politics.
A panel of experts examined how a carbon fee and rebate system could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Massachusetts’ economy on Thursday, Nov. 20 in Johnson Chapel.
The panel’s objective was to hold the oil industry responsible for pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and consider taxing carbon emissions at the state level.
Professor Martha Umphrey has been appointed the inaugural director of the college’s new Humanities Center. The center is currently under construction on the second floor of Frost Library.
This week students in the first-year seminar “Representing Equality” will be presenting a variety of events addressing the issue of sexual assault. Each of the 15 students in the class will put on a different event as part of the class project titled “Race, Relationships and Respect.” The events will run Thursday, Dec. 4 through Saturday, Dec. 6, and will be diverse, featuring board games, movie screenings and interactive plays.
Students, faculty and staff gathered on the steps of Frost Library on Monday, Dec. 1, to participate in the Ferguson National Call to Action. The national movement follows the grand jury’s recent decision not to indict ex-police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old.
Mosab Hassan Yousef spoke on Thursday, Nov. 13 at Johnson Chapel about his experience of defecting from Hamas and joining the Israeli internal security force Shin Bet. At the event, Yousef shared his thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his reasons for choosing to work as an Israeli informant. The Amherst College Republicans hosted the event, which was also sponsored in part by Association of Amherst Students, the Young America’s Foundation, the college’s Political Science Department and the Smith College Republicans.
A committee of students recently introduced an initiative to create new social clubs on campus. The committee plans to propose the initiative to the administration and hopes to launch the new social club system next semester.
“[The social club] is solely for people to come together and socialize — to have a place for those who want access to a consistent group of people they can hang out with as oppose to coming together to get a specific objective done,” said Association of Amherst Students President Tomi Williams ’16, one of the students spearheading this initiative.
