Weekly Bulletin

Flags lowered for victims of Boston Marathon attacks

Gov. Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States and Commonwealth flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Wednesday, April 24 in honor of the victims of the acts of violence perpetrated in Boston on April 15.

New course proposal

The following new course proposal has been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and is listed here for faculty review and comment. Comments on any new course proposal should be submitted to Ernest May, secretary of the Faculty Senate, at senate@senate.umass.edu.

PSYCH 662, “Improving Group Relations,” 3 credits; Instructor: Dr. Linda Tropp; This course examines social psychological research on strategies to improve relations between groups, and potential strengths and weaknesses depending on the relative statuses and conflict histories of the groups involved.

STEM talk gives overview of Project Lead the Way

Carolyn Malstrom of Project Lead the Way (PLTW) will discuss her program in a STEM talk on Tuesday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in 138 Hasbrouck Lab.
 
PLTW program are among seven programs endorsed by the Massachusetts Governor's STEM Council as an @scale STEM program. Malstrom will provide a one-hour overview information session about the three PLTW programs: Gateway To Technology, Pathway To Engineering, and Biomedical Sciences.
 
The Gateway To Technology program is for middle schools and consists of eight separate units that introduce students to the engineering design process, automation,

Open Source Software Innovation competition announced by ICB3

The Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) is accepting letters of intent and submissions for its Open Source Software Innovation competition.
 
Open to all UMass Amherst faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, the program is designed to support and stimulate software development and trans-disciplinary collaborations among computational, statistical and life sciences researchers, showcase campus strengths in these disciplines, and provide a novel mechanism for the dissemination of new knowledge, tools and research.
 
The tentative prize

STEM Diversity Forum scheduled for May 1

The STEM Diversity Institute (SDI) will present a forum on best practices governing advancement of women faculty in STEM fields on Wednesday, May 1 from 5-6:30 p.m. in 145 Integrated Sciences Building. 

Anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome.

The institute’s forum series is aimed at identifying best practices for increasing diversity in STEM fields on campus. The inaugural forum on March 28 drew more than a dozen members of faculty from STEM fields as well as faculty from Social and Behavioral Sciences and campus administrators.

Pages