• Clearing the Air
  • Sorry, Wrong Numbers

FEATURED NEWS

deval patrick at umassGovernor Announces Life Science Funding
Over $100 million in grants will fund new life sciences research.

FEATURED EVENT

sax playerJazz in July
Jazz traditions unite with tomorrow's musicians, July 8-19.

FEATURED EVENT

carillon bellsCarillon Concert at Old Chapel
Music will be heard through campus, Jul. 13.

Jazz in July

Jazz traditions unite with tomorrow's musicians, July 8-19.

Clearing the Air

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Clearing the Air

UMass Rising

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Sorry, Wrong Numbers

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Sorry, Wrong Numbers

Our Sesquicentennial

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Team-Based Learning

A renewed commitment by campus leaders to pedagogy has fueled a pilot project in which 30 faculty members have revamped their roles and now use team-based learning for their courses. For the last three semesters, a 54-seat classroom in Goodell and a 90-seat one in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library have served as incubators for the experiment. So far, the experiment has met with rave reviews and five more team-based classrooms are planned for an academic facility under construction on North Pleasant Street.

Henry Gets Moving

As UMass Amherst tennis players Julia Comas and Gianna Francis read a book about a character who transforms from couch potato to a road race winner, the children in a Head Start classroom in Holyoke, Mass., sat spellbound. Comas and Francis read Henry Gets Moving, which is written in English and Spanish by Pierre Rouzier, a physician at University Health Services, and Chaz Nielsen ’06.

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Woolf’s work combines artificial intelligence, computer network technology and multimedia features in digital tutoring software for teaching mathematics according to individual students’ needs.
A former student-athlete, Spencer replaces Glenn Wong who served in the position for the past 20 years.