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Omasta performs with Valley Rock Choir on May 4

Lynn Omasta, contract purchasing manager with Administrative Services, will be performing with the Valley Rock Choir on Saturday, May 4 at 7 p.m. at Northampton High School Auditorium.
 
The performance will feature music of the horn bands from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s plus the Valley Jazz Choir, under the directorship of Tony Lechner.
 
Tickets are available at Northampton Box Office at 586-8686.

Doctoral oral exams for May 6-9

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

Milena Marchesi, Ph.D., Anthropology. Tuesday, May 7, 9:30 a.m., E25 Machmer. Dissertation: “Contested Subjects: Biopolitics & the Moral Stakes of Social Cohesion in Post-Welfare Italy.” Elizabeth Krause, chr.

Alyssa Schneebaum, Ph.D., Economics. Tuesday, May 7, 11 a.m., 919 Thompson Hall. Dissertation: “The Economics of Same-Sex Couple Households: Essay on Work, Wages and Poverty.” M.V. Lee Badgett, chr.

Handan Akpinar, Ph.D., Chemistry.

Wier reads weekly poem on PBS NewsHour website

English professor Dara Wier read her poem “Not a Verbal Equivalent” on the “Weekly Poem” feature of the “PBS NewsHour.”
 
The poem is from her new collection, “You Good Thing,” published by Wave Books. She is the author of 10 other books of poetry.
 
 
 
 
 

Lockwood wins national Visionary Voice Award

Becky Lockwood, associate director of the Center for Women & Community, is one of 23 people in the country being recognized by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) for their outstanding work to end sexual violence.

Each April as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the NSVRC gives its Visionary Voice Awards to outstanding individuals nominated by state, territorial and tribal coalitions. Lockwood was nominated by Jane Doe Inc., the Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

The Center for Women & Community houses the rape crisis center for survivors of

Subbaswamy inauguration is April 27

Kumble R. Subbaswamy will be formally inaugurated as chancellor during ceremonies on Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m. at the Mullins Center.
 
The installation is being held in conjunction with a weeklong commemoration of the founding of the campus 150 years ago.
 
President Robert L. Caret and Henry M. Thomas, III, chairman of the Board of Trustees, will conduct the investiture rites, presenting Subbaswamy with a medallion bearing the names of the Amherst campus’s leaders since 1863 as a symbol of his office.
 
Other scheduled speakers include Provost James V. Staros, Julie C.

LatinSummer camp to be held on campus June 1-2

The Classics Department and Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute are teaming up to offer a LatinSummer camp to local students on June 1-2. LatinSummer, the oldest and largest program of its type in the nation, will introduce students to the language and culture of ancient Rome.

The proram will run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and is open to any student currently enrolled in grades one through six. Registration fees range from $35 to $110 depending on financial need. No prior knowledge of Latin or classics is required.

During the LatinSummer program, students will participate in exciting classes

Campus launches first-ever online fundraising drive as part of sequicentennial celebration

The campus is celebrating its 150th birthday and is asking supporters to be part of the festivities by making a gift to the university during its first-ever fundraising campaign driven by social media.
 
The 36-hour UMassGives campaign will be launched at noon on Founders Day, Monday, April 29. “The goal is to increase the number of donors among alumni and other supporters, who will be invited to contribute to areas most meaningful to them,” says Sarah Sligo, executive director of Annual Giving.

Galman lectures in London

Sally Campbell Galman, associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies, presented a lecture April 24 with the Gender and Education Association at London South Bank University’s Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research.
 
Galman’s lecture, “She is Kind, She is Busy: Carework in Primary School Classrooms Reconfigured,” described the changing shape of carework as experienced by young children and a female workforce in the current ideological and economic climate.

Groundbreaking for new Agricultural Learning Center

One hundred fifty years after Levi Stockbridge helped found Massachusetts Agricultural College, his descendant Kay Stockbridge will join other dignitaries in a groundbreaking ceremony and celebratory lunch from 12:30-2 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 for the campus’s new Agricultural Learning Center (ALC).
 
The 50-acre working farm will serve as an outdoor classroom for educating future farmers grounded in the latest research and farming, horticultural, nursery and landscape techniques.

Tymoczko lectures at universities in India

Maria Tymoczko, professor of Comparative Literature, presented a public lecture on “Translation and the New Science of Mind” on March 15 at the University of Hyderabad in India.
 
During her visit to the city, Tymoczko also gavea lecture titled “Problematizing the Translation of Cross-Cultural Concepts” at the departments of translation studies at the University of Hyderabad and the English and Foreign Languages University.
 

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