Weekly Bulletin

Daffodil Fun Run to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters

The Daffodil Fun Run, a 5K road race (run/walk) to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County, is being held Sunday, April 28 beginning at 11:30 a.m. at Kendrick Park in Amherst.
 
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Doctoral oral exams for April 29 to May 3

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

Susan Balaban, Ph.D., Psychology. Monday, April 29, 4 p.m., 131 Tobin. Dissertation: “Trauma and Secure Based Behaviors in Dating Relationships.” Sally Powers, chr.

Zhaochang Peng, Ph.D., Economics. Wednesday, May 1, 9 a.m., 1028 Thompson Reading Room. Dissertation: “Decollectivization and Rural Poverty in Post-Mao China: A Critique of the Conventional Wisdom.” David Kotz and James Boyce, co-chrs.

Xuan Che, Ph.D., Management.

‘Sustainable Since 1863’ T-shirts available from Libraries

The Libraries are offering “Sustainable Since 1863” T-shirts made from recycled bottles for a $20 donation.

The shirts feature an archival photo of the campus’s early days as an agricultural college and were created from post-consumer waste yarns made in the United States from an average 14 bottles per shirt, and each is stamped with a bottle count. Energy and resource savings from the 1,000 shirts ordered include 12,400 bottles diverted from landfills, 199,648 lbs. of greenhouse gases avoided, 137,586 gallons of water and 1,701 kWh hours of electricity saved.
 
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Environmental and health activist Annie Leonard is Earth Day speaker

Environmental and health activist filmmaker Annie Leonard is the keynote speaker for Earth Day on Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. She is the creator of the animated short documentary film, “The Story of Stuff,” which has been viewed more than 10 million times worldwide. Leonard will also sign copies of her book, “The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health, and a Vision for Change.”
 
Her 20-minute film, released in 2007, examines the materials economy, modern “throw away culture,” and how consumers can stop what

Michigan scholar to give Collins Lecture at Renaissance Center

Linda Gregerson, the Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, will give the Dan S. Collins Lecture, “Milton and the Tragedy of Nations,” on Tuesday, April 23 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For information, contact the center at renaissance@english.umass.edu or 577-3600.

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