The annual Community Breakfast is always a big draw for local academic, civic and business leaders, but this year’s crowd had more than bacon and eggs on their minds. Nearly 400 people attended the Aug. 29 event in the Student Union Ballroom to hear new Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy set the tone for the new school year.
Subbaswamy, who took office July 1, quickly charmed the audience by joking, “Nancy [Buffone] said we’ve got to finish by 9, so thank you and goodbye.”
Noting time he’d spent in college towns in India, Indiana, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky and Italy, Subbaswamy said he was
Campus chefs have again set a new Guinness World Record, this time by cooking a 6,656-pound seafood stew at a Labor Day barbecue that celebrates the return of students for the new academic year.
Ecologists Adrian Jordaan of the Environmental Conservation Department, Michael Frisk at Stony Brook and lead author Carolyn Hall, an independent researcher, also say if numbers of these anadromous fish, which live in the ocean but
Food from home is one of the things immigrants miss most, and newcomers to Massachusetts, host to an estimated 150,000 transplanted Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Mexicans, are no exception. Recently the campus’s Ethnic Crops Program, which has brought dozens of crops popular among many ethnic groups to markets across the state, added chipilín, a leafy green loved by Latinos from many lands.
The class includes approximately 4,560 students with an academic profile that is at an historic high—SAT scores have increased by seven points, compared to last year, to 1196, and the high school grade point average has increased from 3.64 to 3.66. On average, students rank in the top fifth of their high school class.
Setting aside reverent renditions of its school anthem, UMass Amherst this week begins airing a 30-second TV spot featuring rocker and alumnus Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers launching into a fast-paced version celebrating the university’s excellence as it approaches its 150thanniversary.
Representatives of research institutions, universities and industry agreed to collaborate and share their knowledge, skills and capabilities to promote education in wind energy technologies during the inaugural meeting of the North American Wind Energy Academy held on campus Aug. 7-9.
A recent study of residential landscape types and native bird communities in Phoenix, Ariz., led by a campus urban ecologist, suggests that yards mimicking native vegetation and wildlands offer birds “mini refuges,” helping to offset the loss of biodiversity in cities and supporting birds better than traditional grass lawns and non-native plantings.
A group of scientists and mathematicians led by physicist Christian Santangelo has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) grant for 2012, one of only 15 given to investigators at 26 institutions and totaling nearly $30 million.
After cracking the top 10 last year, UMass Amherst has moved up to No. 3 for “best campus food” in the 2013 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best 377 Colleges.