With at least four major building projects across campus, a visitor might easily miss some the more subtle and immediate campus improvements – landscaping projects that just might make everyone, including visitors, feel a little serene amid the construction.
The new traffic circle at the north end of campus, for instance, has blossomed with color. Viewed from above it becomes clear that the color embodies five gently curved “blades,” like those on a windmill, each arching toward an entry point on the rotary.
Each of the blades is planted with a designated seasonal annual against an
President Robert Caret is planning a four-day, 500-mile bus tour next week to visit alumni start-ups, business incubators and UMass research centers to highlight 150 years of the University’s academic excellence and economic contributions since the signing of the Morrill Land Grant Act.
Stolen or lost property can often be hard to trace because owners don’t record serial numbers or other identifying information, but a new initiative by the UMass Police Department’s Community Outreach Unit is making it easier for student and campus employees to register their valuables.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced Sept. 26 the approval of a $308,000 capital grant to support a research project titled “Life Sciences Research & Innovation: Growth Strategy for UMass Amherst in the Massachusetts Bioeconomy.”
State Street Corporation has created a new career development program that creates skilled, part-time jobs for 100 UMass Amherst students who will be based in a new office in Hadley.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) awarded a 2012–13 American Fellowship to Christina “Nina” Moore, a doctoral candidate in Kinesiology.
Renee Fall, project manager of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) in Computer Science, with Paula Rees, director of diversity programs at the College of Engineering, recently attended the two-day 2012 Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) Global Summit at its offices in New York City, where they took part in activities with representatives from 26 other winning institutions from around the world.
Over the next five years, 300 Latina women in western and central Massachusetts with a history of diabetes while pregnant will receive personalized exercise, weight loss and other healthy lifestyle support to help them avoid developing type 2 diabetes after they give birth. The effort is funded with a $2.56 million grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases to Lisa Chasan-Taber, professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS).
A proposed five-year, $3.1 billion capital plan for the UMass system was approved Sept. 19 by the Board of Trustees at its meeting in Worcester.
UMass Amherst ranks among the 15 percent of schools that are the most “military friendly” in the country, offering the best education, value and welcome to service members and veterans, according to G.I. Jobs magazine.