Undergraduate Commencement will take place at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on May 10, according to Nancy Buffone, executive director of External Relations and University Events.
Although some construction work is scheduled at the stadium, Buffone says the ceremony will remain the same except the stage is being shifted to the south end of the field, a change that was already planned.
More details will be announced in the weeks before the ceremony. In the meantime, questions about Commencement can be directed to Buffone or External Relations and University Events at 577-1101.
Medical zoologist Stephen Rich of the Microbiology Department was an invited speaker on May 16 at the annual Lyme Disease Physicians Forum sponsored by the Barnstable County Cooperative Extension and the Cape Cod Lyme Disease Task Force.
The Institute for Computational Biology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics (ICB3) has extended the deadline for letters of intent and submissions for its Open Source Software Innovation competition.
Last week’s Nor’easter will go down in the record books as a once-in-a-lifetime event for residents across much of central New England, with record snowfall at locations from southern Connecticut to eastern Maine, says Michael Rawlins, manager of the Climate System Research Center.
Aiming to make the campus more bike-friendly, Physical Plant recently installed bicycle repair stands at the bike shelters outside of the Student Union and Integrated Sciences Building.
Recently, large studies have identified some of the genetic basis for important common diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, but most of the genetic contribution to them remains undiscovered. Now campus researchers led by biostatistician Andrea Foulkes of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences have applied sophisticated statistical tools to existing large databases to reveal substantial new information about genes that cause such conditions as high cholesterol linked to heart disease.
The campus' 150th birthday celebration features a yearlong series of events and activities that will reflect on the contributions of a once-tiny agricultural college that now enrolls 28,000 students and ranks among the nation’s top public research universities.