The 16th annual Community Renaissance Festival will fill the grounds of the Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., on Sunday, May 6 from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
The family-friendly, rain-or shine event is free to the public. Costumes are encouraged....
Materials that can change shape when exposed to light hold great promise for new applications such as smart building materials that harness solar energy and remotely-controlled micro-robots, but even the most advanced materials developed to date lag far behind systems that operate on traditional chemical or electrical power sources, says polymer scientist Ryan Hayward at UMass Amherst.
Christiane V. Norton, 63, of Amherst, a retired clerk at University Health Services (UHS), died April 16.
Born Jan. 4, 1955 in Québec, Canada, she lived on Martha’s Vineyard and in Colorado before moving to Western Massachusetts.
She joined UMass Amherst as a clerk in UHS in 2003...
Suzanne Lynn O’Hare, 61, of Southampton, a clinical instructor in the College of Nursing, died April 13.
Born June 17, 1957 in Chicopee, she graduated from Holyoke Catholic High School, received her nursing degree from Holyoke Community College, BSN from Fitchburg State College and MSN...
Stephen Diemand, 62, of Northampton, a former employee of veterinary and animal sciences, died Feb. 25.
Born April 24, 1955, in Northampton, he was an avid farmer throughout his life.
After managing a New Hampshire dairy farm, he and his former wife, the late Eileen (LaValle) Diemand,...
Jeanne Hardy, associate professor of chemistry, whose research focuses on a key protein linked to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, is being recognized with the inaugural Mahoney Life Sciences Prize at UMass Amherst.
A doctoral student’s collection of photographs documenting a decade of East Germans living and working in Mozambique will be on display May 3-10 in the Augusta Savage Gallery, 103 New Africa House.
The opening reception for “East Germany in Mozambique: Private Photographs of a...
Over four days in Old Chapel, the public watched as seven Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastary painstakingly created a unique and colorful sand mandala from millions of grains of sand.
Considered a tool for re-consecrating the earth and its inhabitants, the mandala incorporated...
A student photography exhibit “Global Perspectives through Student Eyes” is on view in the Science and Engineering Library through fall 2018. Hosted by the International Programs Office (IPO) and the Libraries, the exhibit, which is free and open to the public, features photos taken by...
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered the United States and Commonwealth flags lowered to half-staff at all state buildings until the day of interment in honor of state Rep. James Miceli of Wilmington, who died April 21.