Academic Instructional Media Services, a division of Help Services in the Office of Information Technologies, is taking appointments for its summer clean and check of departmentally-owned equipment.
Types of equipment to be serviced include, but are not limited to, data projectors, slide projectors DVD players, VCRs and sound systems.
Actual maintenance will take place over the summer, by appointment, at the departmental spaces or offices. AIMS offers this service free of charge but departments may have to buy replacement parts, lamps, etc.
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel, assistant professor of Music, made his debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall on April 5, performing music by Holliger, Ravel, Honegger and Beethoven.
Associate professor Emery Berger of the School of Computer Science has won a Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF) award, which includes a $25,000 grant, for his work on a system to automatically find errors in spreadsheets.
Republican strategist Karl Rove and former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush will speak on "The Future of America and the GOP" on Tuesday, April 9 at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. Doors open at 7:20.
Communication Disorders graduate students Alisson Reber and Abigail Wilkins have been awarded travel fellowships by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders (NIDCD) to attend the Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology (RSCA) in May. The RSCA is embedded in the schedule of the 43rd annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) in Tucson and is organized around cutting-edge theory and data.
A talk by Jacquelynne Eccles of the University of Michigan scheduled for April 22 has been canceled.
Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy has proposed to Amherst town officials that they jointly hire a consultant to assess key community development issues, including ways to strengthen boundary neighborhoods and bolster the local economy.
Mari Castañeda, associate professor of Communication, was a featured speaker at the inaugural Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) conference held April 3-5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.