Talking Points

Campus team dominates national Turf Bowl competition

The grass is always greener when it is being tended by the nation’s number one-ranked turf team, which just happens to be part of the UMass Amherst Turf Club.
 
The 19th annual Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) Turf Bowl held Feb. 7 in San Diego was dominated by a UMass Amherst team consisting of Evan Bradstreet, a senior from Gorham, Maine; Sean Raposa, a junior from Tiverton, R.I.; Kevin Shewmaker, a senior from Granby, and Peter J. White III, a senior from Worcester.

USA Women's Rugby National Team members train with Kinesiology students and faculty

Five Kinesiology student interns will be facilitating training sessions with members of the USA Women’s Rugby National Team during three visits to the campus this semester, beginning Feb.  23-24.
 
The students are collaborating with faculty sponsors Eliza Frechette and Judi LaBranche on instituting a workout program for the athletes and will participate in other activities including fitness assessments, nutritional education and sport psychology seminars.
 
The program came together during the 2011-12 school year.

Gubrium, Krause awarded $500k Ford Foundation grant for Holyoke ‘Hear Our Stories’ project

Aline Gubrium, Public Health and Health Sciences, and Betsy Krause, Anthropology, recently won a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation’s Sexuality Research Initiative to launch their “Hear Our Stories” project in collaboration with the Community Adolescent Resources and Education (Care) Center of Holyoke, an alternative education program that serves young women ages 16-21 and their children.
 
Gubrium and Krause plan four four-day workshops at the Care Center by staff of the California-based Center for Digital Storytelling and staff from WGBY’s “Telling Our Legacies Digitally”

6 women to be honored by Center for Women & Community

Six area women will be honored for their achievements in the arts, politics and social justice advocacy on Friday, Feb. 22 when the Center for Women & Community (CWC) marks its 40th anniversary with a gala from 7-10 p.m. in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center.
 
Janet Aalfs, former poet laureate of Northampton, is receiving the Arts award in recognition of the enormous positive impact that creative contributions have on the local community. Aalfs is a poet and writer, movement artist, community educator, performer and international peace activist.

Family Science Day programs, faculty speakers raise campus profile at AAAS

Student teams, faculty and staff were among more than 8,000 participants at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting held Feb. 13-18 in Boston. In addition, Maria Santore, Polymer Science and Engineering, and Danny Schnell, chemistry, were officially honored as newly elected AAAS Fellows during the meeting.
 
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