Weekly Bulletin

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.

ANTHRO 527, “Repatriation and Issues of Cultural Property,” 3 credits; Instructor: Dr. Rae Gould or Dr. Elizabeth Chilton; Explores issues of cultural property and repatriation through examination of history of cultural property concepts and issues.

'Shaping the View' opens April 3 at UMCA

"Shaping the View," a new exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, investigates how modern and contemporary artists use a variety of media to capture and re-imagine both interior and exterior scenes. The works presented will encourage the audience to think about what is beyond the picture plane. By juxtaposing unconventional views of ordinary spaces, this exhibition will showcase how artists orchestrate the viewer’s perception of the world around them.

Artists in this exhibition include Harry Callahan, Elliot Erwitt, Juan Gomez-Quiroz, Paul Hogarth, Paul Ickovic, Roger

Workshops planned for employees to cope with tobacco-free campus

The Center for Health Promotion and Workplace Learning and Development are offering four sessions of "Helping Employees Cope with a Tobacco-Free UMass."

The program takes place Thursdays, 1-2 p.m., on March 28 and April 4, 11 and 18 in 904-08 Campus Center.

Participants are eligible to receive a voucher to help offset the cost of over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products. Vouchers are good for $10 off the price of a two-week supply of these products at the University Health Services Pharmacy; this discount can be applied up to six times.

Lecture examines neurobiology of depression

Eric J. Nestler, professor and chair of the department of neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, will speak on “New Insight into the Neurobiology of Depression” on Wednesday, April 3 at 4 p.m. in 222 Morrill Science Center (South).
 
Nestler's work reveals fundamental issues of brain plasticity including epigenetic changes in brain function that likely contribute to and may even account for resilience to depression and addiction to drugs of abuse.

New course proposals

The following new course proposals have been submitted to the Faculty Senate Office for review and approval and are 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.

HISTORY 320, “Introduction to Public History,” 4 credits; Instructor: Marla Miller, Explore theory and practice of public history (museums, preservation agencies, archives, etc.), including where and how historians work in the world and the many ways history operates in American life. Prerequisites: None

Renaissance Wednesday lecture looks at 'forging poetic authorship' in Spain

Albert Lloret, assistant professor of Spanish, will discuss “Forging Poetic Authorship in Renaissance Spain” on Wednesday, March 27 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club.

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

Chicago scholar offers 'Reflections on Politics and African American Literature'

Kenneth Warren, professor of English literature at the University of Chicago, will speak on “Reflections on Politics and African American Literature” on Thursday, April 4 from 4-6 p.m. in 904-08 Campus Center.
 
The Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Warren is the author of three monographs: “What Was African American Literature?,” “So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism” and “Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism.” He is co-editor with Adolph Reed, Jr.

Mystery writer Archer Mayor to read at Libraries' Dinner with Friends

Mystery author Archer Mayor will be the guest speaker at the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries’ 11th annual “Dinner with Friends,” on Saturday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Du Bois Library.
 
Mayor is the author of the bestselling, Vermont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune describes as “the best police procedurals being written in America.” He will be reading from and autographing copies of his newest novel, “Paradise City,” which is set in Northampton. The evening includes a champagne and hors d’oeuvre reception with music by student jazz

Applications open for Du Bois Fellowships

The Libraries offer short-term residential fellowships to assist younger scholars in conducting research in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. Full-time graduate students, faculty, or independent scholars (with a Ph.D.) are eligible to apply. Fellows will receive a stipend of $2,500 for a four-week residency. The deadline for applications is April 19. For more information: http://bit.ly/dubois_fellowship. 
 
Among the approximately 15,000 linear feet of manuscripts held by SCUA are many valuable collections for the study of social change in the

Research images from VISUAL collection on view at Science and Engineering Library

“Images From VISUAL,” featuring 15 22-by-24-inch images captured during campus research, is on view through April 7 in the Science and Engineering Library, in the Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise, floor 2. Accompanying each image is a description in non-technical terms that explains the science behind the picture.
 
Ventures in Science Using Art Laboratory (VISUAL) is an educational outreach program of the National Science Foundation-supported Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC).  VISUAL is based on the premise that the visual arts can serve as an effective

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