Weekly Bulletin

Summer hours at dining commons

Worcester and Berkshire dining commons will be daily open this summer as follows:

Worcester, May 20 to July 27, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Berkshire, June 23 to July 3 and July 12 to Sept. 1, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Berkshire will be closed July 4-11).

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ICB3 offers ‘Big Data’ course for life sciences industry and academic researchers

Registration is open for the one-day, short course, “Data Sciences for the Life Sciences in a High-Performance Computing Environment,” sponsored by the Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) to be held  Aug. 27 at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center in Holyoke.
 
The course at the new state-of-the-art facility dedicated to research-oriented computing will offer a foundational curriculum in life sciences research using R, an increasingly important open source statistical programming language.

Doctoral oral exams for May 20-24

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Peter Fielding, Ph.D., Music. Monday, May 20, 9 a.m., 272 Music Department Conference Room. Dissertation: “The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Nova Scotia: A Classification of Pitch Space.” Gary Karpinski, chr.

Elizabeth Cahn, Ph.D., Regional Planning. Monday, May 20, 10 a.m., 301 Hills North.

Western Massachusetts Writing Project celebrates 20th anniversary

The Western Massachusetts Writing Project will celebrate its 20th anniversary on May 16 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. with a program and reception in the Marriott Center of the Campus Center. Titled “Opening Doors and Re-Inventing Teaching Practices,” the program will feature remarks from Sharon Washington, executive director of the National Writing Project.

The project will also honor the newest Massachusetts Teacher of the Year, Anne Marie Bettencourt, of Hatfield, a co-director of the Writing Project and English teacher at Central High School in Springfield.

Libraries closing at 4 p.m. on May 14

All branches of the Libraries will close at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 14 for the annual end-of-school-year staff celebration.

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