Weekly Bulletin

Doctoral oral exams for March 4-8

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

Yen-Han Lin, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering. Monday, March 4, 10:30 a.m., Gunness Student Center, Marcus Hall. Dissertation: “Stability of Liquid Films Flowing over Heterogeneous Surfaces and Gas-Solid Flow of Decomposing Particles with Applications to Biomass Pyrolysis.” Jeffery Davis, chr.

Zuojing Chen, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering. Monday, March 4, 2 p.m., 201 Marcus Hall, Conference Room.

New course proposals

The following new course proposals have been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and are 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.

E&C-ENGIN 688Y, “Graduate Project,” 3 credits; Instructor: C. V. Hollot (or R. W. Jackson, R. Tessier); This is the first semester of a two-semester project where a student works with a faculty advisor on a project which is suitable for six graduate credits.

New Africa House Ensemble performs Feb. 28

The New Africa House Ensemble, a group of faculty, graduate students and undergraduates, will perform music by Jimmy Smith, Oliver Nelson, Horace Silver, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Abdullah Ibrahim and The Meters on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Augusta Savage Gallery, New Africa House.
 
The event is sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.

Allen Holder presents special Mechanical and Industrial Engineering seminar

Allen Holder of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will speak on “Robust Analysis of Metabolic Pathways: Engineering, Biology, and Math” on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4 p.m. in the Gunness Student Center, Marcus Hall.
 
Refreshments precede the lecture at 3:45.
 
The overriding goal of this talk is to show how topics in engineering design can aid problems in the biological sciences, and in reverse, how the engineering fields can gain from the biological application.

First Sunday Concert with Circa 1600 at Renaissance Center

Circa 1600 presents "Dancing for Julia," music associated with the work of musicologist and dance historian Julia Sutton, on Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

Circa 1600 is dedicated to high renaissance and early baroque music, including lute trios, lute songs, dance music, and vocal polyphony. With an unusual instrumentation of three lutes complemented by three singers, the group presents rarely-heard music of the time as well as original arrangements following the performance practices of the era.

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