In the early 1960s, my younger brother, Carter, was placed in a “slow” track in school because of learning problems that had no name back then. In a fifth-grade science experiment with a homemade wooden maze and two hamsters, I tried to prove that his anti-seizure medication, not his lack of intelligence, had made him […]

Biddy Martin
Biddy Martin has served as President of Amherst College since 2011. Previously, she was Provost of Cornell University and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.