Weekly Bulletin

Campus Center Way closed to through traffic April 2

The contractor for the Old Power Plant Demolition Project will be closing Campus Center Way, from Flint/Holdsworth Way to the Lower Garage Service Road for road paving on Tuesday, April 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Campus Parking Garage will remain open and accessible from Commonwealth Avenue via Holdsworth Way. There will also continue to be access to the Lower Garage Service Road.

The work zone will be open, as necessary, to emergency vehicles only. UMass Police will direct traffic. Through traffic on Campus Center Way should resume after 2 p.m. on Tuesday.

Questions about this project

Renaissance Wednesday lecture looks at violin making

Lloyd Craighill discusses "Recent Advances in the Art of Violin Making" on Wedensday, April 10 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

Light refreshments are served after the talk, which is free and open to the public.

For information, contact the center at renaissance@english.umass.edu or 577-3600.

Sport Management Department hosts residency by longtime NHL executive

Hockey executive Brian Burke will visit campus next week as the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management's Executive-in-Residence. Burke served as general manager of four National Hockey League teams including 2007 Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks. He also was general manager of the 2010 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team that won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He is currently a scout for the Anaheim Ducks.
 
Burke will deliver the Sport Innovators Keynote Address, “The Current Landscape of Labor Relations in Professional Sports,” on Tuesday, April 9 at 6 p.m.

Fletcher School professor speaks on conflict resolution and human rights

Eileen F. Babbitt of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, will speak on “The Practical Realities of Peace with Justice: The challenge of integrating conflict resolution and human rights” on Thursday, April 4 at noon in 423 Tobin. This event was rescheduled from March 28 due to illness.
 
Babbitt’s lecture is part of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict and Violence and is sponsored by Psychology of Peace and Violence Programand the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support Initiative of the United States Institute of Peace.
 
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Renaissance Wednesday speaker discusses tapestries

Amherst tapestry weaver Tamar Shadur will discuss "Renaissance Tapestries" on Wednesday, April 3 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

After the lecture on the art of tapestry weaving and their historical importance in the Renaissance, there will be an opportunity to sign up for a field trip to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to view its collection of Renaissance tapestries and other Renaissance art. Shadur will accompany the trip.

The field trip costs $60 per person, which includes Sprinter Van transportation, museum admission and a one-hour guided museum

'Dash & Dine' 5K benefits Amherst Survival Center

Dining Services is hosting the fourth annual “UMass 5K Dash & Dine” on campus Saturday, April 6.
 
The run/walk is being held to raise money for the Amherst Survival Center and to promote health and fitness at the university. The race fee, $5 for UMass Amherst community members and $15 for the public, includes registration, and a complimentary meal following the award ceremony. The first 500 registrants receive a T-shirt.
 
Schedule of events:

9 a.m. – Check-in at Berkshire Dining Commons

11 a.m. – Race begins

Noon – Prizes for top three runners for gender and age groups

 
Prizes of $100

Apostolidis speaks on migrant day laborers and neoliberalism

Political scientist Paul Apostolidis will speak on “Migrant Day Laborers, Neoliberalism, and the Struggle for Time” on Thursday, April 18 at 4 p.m. in 904-08 Campus Center as part of the Center for Research on Families’ Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series.
 
Apostolidis is professor and T. Paul Chair of Political Science at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash. His scholarly research bridges political theory, cultural studies and the analysis of social movements.

Black Alumni Weekend set for April 12-14

The UMass Amherst Black Alumni Network is hosting a reunion weekend April 12-14 with social, cultural and educational events.

Scheduled activities include a social in downtown Amherst, a panel on diversity, a barbecue in Southwest, a bus tour of the campus, a reception and a jazz brunch.

Pre-registration is required.

More information and registration

New course proposal

The following new course proposal has been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and is listed here for faculty review and comment. Comments on any new course proposal should be submitted to Ernest May, secretary of the Faculty Senate, at senate@senate.umass.edu.

GREEK 475, “Lucien,” 3 credits; Instructor: Debbie Felton, alternating with other Classics faculty; We will read at least one entire work of Lucian (e.g., the “True Histories”) in the original Greek, emphasizing large quantities of prepared reading as well as sight-translation. Prerequisites: None.

Chancellor to address Retired Faculty Association

Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy will discuss “UMass Amherst’s Future” as the featured speaker during the Retired Faculty Association meeting on Wednesday, April 10, at 11 a.m. in 101 Campus Center.

The business meeting, with coffee and cookies, will begin at 10 a.m. followed at 10:30 by a presentation by Ervin Staub, professor emeritus of Psychology,  on “Overcoming evil: genocide, violent conflict and terrorism.”

Retired Faculty Association

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