UMass Amherst is among the sponsoring organizations of an Oct. 10 debate between Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren at Springfield’s Symphony Hall.
More than 2,000 free tickets to the 7 p.m. event will be made available starting Sept. 14. For ticketing information, see www.springfieldpublicforum.org/debate.
The debate will also be broadcast on television and radio and possibly streamed live on the Internet.
Brown and Warren are scheduled to take part in three other televised debates and one radio debate.
The TV debates include one hosted by WBZ-TV in
Professor Max Page of the Art, Art History and Architecture Department, is one of three scholars nationally named to receive the Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation, awarded annually by the American Academy in Rome to honor “the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”
New Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy will be one of the featured speakers at the 46th Annual Community Breakfast on Wednesday, Aug. 29 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. The event is open to the public.
John K. Horvath of the Hartford Police Department in Connecticut has been appointed as the campus's new police chief and director of Public Safety by James P. Sheehan, vice chancellor for Administration and Finance. Horvath succeeds Johnny Whitehead, who served as chief from 2009 until this past February. The new chief begins his duties in September.
Caitlyn Shea Butler, assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, has designed and is now field-testing a new “green latrine” that purifies human waste, turning it into compost for farming and generating electricity.Her multipurpose invention is called a “Microbial Fuel Cell Latrine.”
By some estimates, a third of the Earth’s organisms by mass live in our planet’s rocks and sediments, yet their lives and ecology are almost a complete mystery. This week, microbiologist James Holden and others report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the first detailed data about a group of methane-exhaling microbes that live deep in the cracks of hot undersea volcanoes.