The Five College Viol Consort will present "A Consort of Severall Friends" on Sunday, Feb. 3 from 2-4 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.
The consort consists of Robert Eisenstein, bass viol, Loren Ludwig, treble viol, Meg Pash, bass viol, Laurie Rabut, treble viol, and Alice Robbins, tenor viol. Music of Thomas Tomkins, William Byrd, Johann Schop and others will be performed at the free, public concert, which is part of the center's First Sunday Concert Series.
Refreshments will follow the performance.
For information, call 577-3600 or e-mail
Three social scientists who are engaged in projects in Springfield will discuss their work at the first Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) “Research in Process Panel” of the spring semester on Thursday, Feb. 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center. Lunch will be served. RSVP to Karen Mason by Feb. 4.
John Collura, professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Transportation Center, was awarded the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) S.S. Steinberg Award on Jan. 14 during the association’s annual Research & Education Division (RED) meeting in Washington, D.C.
"The Life and Works of John Donne," an informal discussion of the historical and potential biographical context of a selection of Donne's works, is being held Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.
A new report, drafted by a national panel that included two Resource Economics faculty members, says the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), should consider several factors in determining whether benefits are adequate. These include time constraints on low-income families and their ability to cook healthy meals, differing food prices across the country and the availability of healthy foods from local food stores.
Just-forming stars, like growing babies, are always hungry and must “feed” on huge amounts of gas and dust from dense envelopes surrounding them at birth. Now a team of astronomers including Robert Gutermuth, a research assistant professor and expert in imaging data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, reports observing an unusual “baby” star that periodically emits infrared light bursts, suggesting it may be twins, that is, a binary star. The discovery is reported this month in Nature.
Associate professor Sylvia Brandt of Resource Economics and Public Policy, will discuss her recent work in a talk titled “The Costs of Traffic-Related Pollution in Los Angeles: Implications for Smart Growth” on Monday, Feb. 4 at noon in 620 Thompson Hall.