Weekly Bulletin

Panel discussion on the 'Engaged Campus' is April 26

A panel discussion on “The Engaged Campus: Giving Back to the Commonwealth and Beyond” will be presented Friday, April 26, from 3-4:30 p.m. in W-32 Machmer Hall as part of this year’s Founders Week celebration.
 
Organized by the UMass Public Engagement Project (PEP), the panel will include Dan Gerber, associate dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences and chair of the Faculty Senate’s Public Service and Outreach Council; Marla Michel, director of Community Engagement and the Scibelli Enterprise Center in Springfield; John Reiff, director of the Office of

HerbFest 2013 celebrates spices, herbs and medicinal plants

HerbFest 2013, an activity sponsored by students enrolled in PLSOILIN 280, “Herbs, Spices, & Medicinal Plants,” will be held Tuesday, April 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. 

All faculty, staff and students are invited to see the collection of herbs and herbal projects developed by students.    

Attendees will have the opportunity to sample a range of foods prepared with herbs and spices, have students answer questions about growing and using herbs, and see a variety of herbal species in the HerbFest garden.

Stadium Drive closed to through traffic April 16 or 17

The contractor for the McGuirk Alumni Stadium upgrade project will close a portion of Stadium Drive on either Tuesday, April 16, or Wednesday, April 17, depending on weather conditions, for utility work in the area.  During construction, Stadium Drive via the intersection southeast of the softball complex will be open to local traffic only.
 
Questions or comments about this project should be directed to the project manager, Joe Balzano, at 545-2179 or jbalzano@facil.umass.edu.

Panel to examine 'Public Scholarship in the Interdisciplinary Arena'

The Interdisciplinary Studies Institute is presenting a panel discussion on “The Challenges of Engagement: Public Scholarship in the Interdisciplinary Arena” on Wednesday, April 24 at 4 p.m. in 904-08 Campus Center.
 
The event marks the culmination of this year’s ISI Faculty Seminar on “Engagement: The Challenge of Public Scholarship.” Members of the seminar will be present to participate in the discussion, and panelists will include Nicholas Bromell, English, on publication; Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology, on community engagement, and Elizabeth Chilton, Anthropology, on tenure and

STEM talk looks at middle school's use of Problem Based Learning

Wayne Kermenski, a science teacher at Mohawk Trail Regional School District, will speak on “Project Based Learning, the Fifth Academic Class” on Tuesday, April 23 at 4 p.m. in 138 Hasbrouck Lab at a talk sponsored by the STEM Education Institute.
 
A few years back, Mohawk Trail Regional Middle School created a course titled “Project Based Learning” or PBL. It became one of five academic classes for middle school students. The goals for this course included inquiry-based projects that enforced skills students learned in their other courses.

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