Two alumnae recovering from injuries sustained in Boston Marathon attack

Two alumnae are recovering from injuries sustained during the April 15 terrorist bombing in Boston.
 
Brittany A. Loring of Ayer, a 2006 graduate, remains hospitalized but her condition has been upgraded from critical to serious, according to the Ayer News. Longmeadow native Ryan C. McMahon, 33, of Boston, a 2002 graduate, received a fractured vertebra and two broken arms when she fell as the crowd in the viewing stand fled the scene after the blasts, according to the Republican.
 
A recovery fund has been established for Loring.

Students organize run to raise money for marathon bombing victims fund

Just days after the Boston Marathon bombings, students are organizing a fundraiser to assist victims of the attack and demonstrate the campus community’s support for the people of Boston.
 
Christopher J. Weyant, a first-year Sport Management major from Wilbraham, is the lead organizer of a 2.62-mile campus run tonight. The runners are to gather at 6 p.m. on the plaza between the Mullins Center and the practice skating rink with the run starting off at 6:30 p.m.
 
Weyant says the event is designed to show the people of Boston that the UMass Amherst community supports them and “to show the

Ambitious ‘greening the campus’ goals announced

Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy recently accepted from his environmental advisory committee an updated Climate Action Plan that outlines ambitious goals for the campus, focused not only on energy efficiency and reduced emissions, but on raising sustainability literacy, student participation and integrating green principles into all of campus life, notably academic courses.
 
The 60-page report updates the campus’s first action plan released in 2010, which identified strategies for reaching carbon neutrality over the next 37 years, by 2050. That is the goal that former President Jack Wilson

Emergency Notification System test scheduled for April 24

The campus will conduct a routine test of its Emergency Notification System on Wednesday, April 24 after 10:30 a.m., according to Tom O’Regan, emergency preparedness and business continuity planning manager with Environmental Health & Safety.

The test will include emergency text messaging, broadcast e-mail and outdoor warning sirens.

The drill will help test, evaluate and improve the campus’s ability to disseminate timely and effective notifications and warnings to students, faculty and staff during an emergency.

Members of the campus community can sign up for emergency text messages by

New Rising Researcher awards given to 4 undergraduates

Undergraduates Tess Brickley ’15, Kelly Malone ’13, Alexander Borges ’14, and Ankur Sheel ’13 have been designated the first UMass Amherst Rising Researchers. The Rising Researcher award is a new program co-funded by University Relations and Research and Engagement to recognize campus undergraduates who excel in research, scholarship and creative activity.

Awardees are exceptional undergraduates identified by their faculty mentor/advisor who have demonstrated leadership and impact in their chosen area of study.

A double major in Neuroscience and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sheel is

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