Weekly Bulletin

UMass Extension’s new Garden Calendar on sale

UMass Extension’s 2013 Garden Calendar is now available.
 
The calendar features daily gardening tips for Northeast growing conditions, daily sunrise and sunset times, phases of the moon, room for notes and inspiring garden images for each month.
 
Calendars are $12 each, plus $2.50 shipping for one calendar and $2 for each additional calendar. Send check payable to UMass to Garden Calendar, c/o Mailrite, 78 River Road South, Putney, VT 05346.
 
For information, contact the UMass Extension Landscape, Nursery and Urban Forestry Program at 545-0895 or eweeks@umext.umass.edu
 
 
 

Tomaskovic-Devey to speak on 'Documenting Desegregation'

Sociology professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey will discuss his new book, "Documenting Desegregation, Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act," at a Sociology Department colloquium on Tuesday, Nov. 6 from 12:30-2 p.m. in W-32 Machmer Hall.

Enacted nearly 50 years ago, the Civil Rights Act codified a new vision for American society by formally ending segregation and banning race and gender discrimination in the workplace. But how much change did the legislation actually produce?

Walk for Light to check campus for safety issues on Nov. 7

All members of the campus community are invited to take part in the annual Walk for Light, which identifies safety-related issues on campus and documents those concerns for repair or other follow-up, on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m., starting from the Student Union steps.
 
Participants will break into groups and head out to different areas of campus, where they will observe and record areas of concern due to poor or broken lighting, overgrown trees or bushes that reduce lighting, broken railings or uneven steps, inoperable help phones, new paths due to construction and other safety-related

McGill scholar to present Distinguished Lecture in the Anthropology of Europe

Ismael Vaccaro, associate professor of anthropology and environmental sciences at McGill University in Montreal, will present this year’s Distinguished Lecture in the Anthropology of Europe on Monday, Nov. 5 from 4-5:30 p.m. in 1001 Campus Center.
 
Vaccaro’s lecture, “The 21st Century Peasant: The Case of the Catalan Pyrenees,” will examine the region’s transformation during the last 200 years. Following economic and demographic decline, many European peripheral rural communities have moved from agro-ranching economies to integration in the leisure economy.

Yale researcher to speak on axon regeneration and degeneration

Marc Hammarlund of Yale University School of Medicine will discuss axon regeneration and degeneration at a Neuroscience and Behavior colloquium on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 4 p.m. in 222 Morrill II.

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