Weekly Bulletin

Tennessee scholar to lecture at Renaissance Center

Robert Stillman of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who will be in residency at the Renaissance Center Feb. 6-8, will deliver a lecture on Sir Philip Sidney on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Reading Room.
 
The lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments follow the lecture.

The Renaissance Center is located at 650 East Pleasant St. and can be reached at 577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu.

Five College Renaissance Seminar

Stephanie Elsky, visiting assistant professor in the department of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College will deliver a lecture, "Sidney's Aporia: Common Law and the Poetics of Doubt in the Old Arcadia" on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

The talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will follow the talk.

For information, call 577-3600 or e-mail renaissance@english.umass.edu.

Doctoral oral exams for Feb. 11-15

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

German Colon, Ph.D., Physics. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2:30 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Dissertation: “Search for TeV-Scale Gravity Signatures in Final States with Leptons and Jets with the ATLAS Detector at sqrt(s)=8 TeV.” Carlo Dallapiccola, chr.

Jeffrey Muttart, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Friday, Feb.

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.

CMPSCI 119, “Introduction to Programming,” 3 credits; Instructor: William T. Verts; An introduction to computer programming with multimedia applications. Students will create Python programs to process image, video, and audio data. No prior programming experience expected. Not open to CMPSCI majors.

Retired Faculty Association meeting includes lecture by Baker

Erin Baker, associate professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Retired Faculty Association on Wednesday, Feb. 13 in 101 Campus Center. She will discuss “Energy Technology R&D Policy in Response to Climate Change.”
 
The meeting begins at 10 a.m. with refreshments, followed by business and announcements from 10:15-10:30, when Joel Martin, vice provost and dean of faculty, will give a short presentation on “Faculty Development.” Baker’s lecture starts at 11.
 
 
 

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