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Determination Drives Student to Leave Cycle of Poverty Rosana Urbaez '14, a Communication-Psychology double major from Lawrence, MA, was recently awarded the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' West End House Scholarship. Read her compelling story here. |
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Seth Goldman Wins TESS Competition for Young Investigators Prof. Seth Goldman is among the winners of a national competition for young investigators. He has been awarded a data collection grant through the Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) program, a National Science Foundation initiative that provides funding for experiments to be carried out with large nationally representative samples of Americans. His project, "The Victim Paradox: How Portrayals of Suffering Affect Attitudes about Gay People and Gay Rights," will examine the impact of different media narratives on the attitudes of both heterosexual and gay Americans. |
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Seth Goldman Participates in NYT Debate on Racism Prof. Seth Goldman recently contributed to a New York Times forum on racism in the age of Obama. A link to Prof. Goldman's commentary may be found here. |
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Job Opening: IT Manager The Departments of Communication and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are searching jointly for an IT Manager to coordinate and direct all activities related to information technology services for the instructional facilities within the two departments in a new state-of-the-art building set to open in Fall 2014. Interested applicants can read the full job description here. |
