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.

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.