Weekly Bulletin

Center for Women & Community hosts 40th anniversary gala

The Center for Women & Community (CWC) will mark its 40th anniversary with a gala celebrating women’s achievements on Friday, Feb. 22 from 7-10 p.m. in the Amherst Room of the Campus Center.
 
Formerly known as the Everywoman’s Center, CWC is one of the oldest continually operating women’s centers in the country. According to Everywoman’s Center: Evolution of an Alternative, a “herstory” penned by its founders, an organized collective of Pioneer Valley women approached UMass Amherst in the early 1970s about the educational and vocational needs of area women.
 
The Everywoman’s Center was

'Vagina Monologues' staged at Bowker Auditorium Feb. 15-17

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the V-Day organization, “One Billion Rising” has been launched, encouraging one billion people to rise up and state why they are dedicated to ending violence against women. At UMass Amherst this semester, a group of women is putting together a production of “The Vagina Monologues” in support of the “One Billion Rising” campaign.

Performances take place at Bowker Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 15 and Saturday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 17 at 3 p.m.

Tickets are $5 for students, low-income and seniors, $10 for the general public at the Fine Arts

Reservations open for meals prepared by HTM students at Marriott Center

Meals at the Marriott, lunches and dinners prepared and served by students in Hospitality and Tourism Management 355, “Food Production Management,” are being offered this semester starting Feb. 12-14 at the Marriott Center for Hospitality Management on the 11th floor of the Campus Center.

Lunches are $10 per person and are served on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with seating starting at noon

Dinners are $13.50 per person and are served Tuesdays and Wednesdays with seating starting at 6 p.m.

Diners may also choose a la carte menus with separately priced starters, entrees and desserts at

Juma to speak on African development issues

Professor Calestous Juma of Harvard Kennedy School will give the inaugural lecture in the Political Economy Research Institute's African Development Policy Program Speaker Series, “Growing Africa: Agricultural Innovation and Economic Transformation” on Friday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in the Gordon Hall Conference Room.
 
Juma is one of the leading scholars on innovation and agricultural development in Africa.
 
The first lecture is co-sponsored by the Economics Department’s History and Development Workshop.
 
Gordon Hall is located at 418 N.

Panel to discuss public engagement in environmental policymaking

The Science, Technology and Society Initiative at the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) will host a panel discussion titled “Governing Biodiversity: Citizen Voices on the Global Stage” on Friday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 p.m. in 302-304 Gordon Hall.
 
Panelists will use the recent World Wide Views on Biodiversity project as an example of how the general public can be effectively engaged in environmental policy discussions.

Tennessee scholar to lecture at Renaissance Center

Robert Stillman of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who will be in residency at the Renaissance Center Feb. 6-8, will deliver a lecture on Sir Philip Sidney on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 4 p.m. in the Reading Room.
 
The lecture is free and open to the public. Light refreshments follow the lecture.

The Renaissance Center is located at 650 East Pleasant St. and can be reached at 577-3600 or renaissance@english.umass.edu.

Five College Renaissance Seminar

Stephanie Elsky, visiting assistant professor in the department of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College will deliver a lecture, "Sidney's Aporia: Common Law and the Poetics of Doubt in the Old Arcadia" on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.

The talk is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will follow the talk.

For information, call 577-3600 or e-mail renaissance@english.umass.edu.

Doctoral oral exams for Feb. 11-15

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

German Colon, Ph.D., Physics. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2:30 p.m., 1033 Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Dissertation: “Search for TeV-Scale Gravity Signatures in Final States with Leptons and Jets with the ATLAS Detector at sqrt(s)=8 TeV.” Carlo Dallapiccola, chr.

Jeffrey Muttart, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Friday, Feb.

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.

CMPSCI 119, “Introduction to Programming,” 3 credits; Instructor: William T. Verts; An introduction to computer programming with multimedia applications. Students will create Python programs to process image, video, and audio data. No prior programming experience expected. Not open to CMPSCI majors.

Retired Faculty Association meeting includes lecture by Baker

Erin Baker, associate professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, will be the featured speaker at the next meeting of the Retired Faculty Association on Wednesday, Feb. 13 in 101 Campus Center. She will discuss “Energy Technology R&D Policy in Response to Climate Change.”
 
The meeting begins at 10 a.m. with refreshments, followed by business and announcements from 10:15-10:30, when Joel Martin, vice provost and dean of faculty, will give a short presentation on “Faculty Development.” Baker’s lecture starts at 11.
 
 
 

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