Laura Valdiviezo, associate professor of teacher education and curriculum studies and editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Bjorn Nordtveit, associate professor of educational policy, research and administration and editor of Comparative Education Review, attended the American...
The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Benjamin Johnson, Ph.D., Mathematics. Monday, Aug. 7, 2 p.m., 202 Lederle Graduate Research Tower. Dissertation: “Equations for Nilpotent Varieties and their...
Gov. Charlie Baker has ordered that the United States and Commonwealth flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise to sunset on Wednesday, Aug. 2, in honor of Navy Yeoman 3rd Class Edmund T. Ryan, a Massachusetts native combat veteran who served on the USS Oklahoma and...
The food in UMass Amherst’s dining halls is so good that The Princeton Review came back for another helping, choosing the school as the national leader in collegiate dining in the U.S. for a second straight year.
Don Robinson, who retired as executive director of Environmental Health and Safety in June, received the Honorary Life Award from the Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association on July 14 in Tucson.
The Honorary Life Award is granted to individuals who have made significant and...
Nearly 90 elementary-age students from the Greater Holyoke YMCA took part in a campus scavenger hunt on July 28 as part of university outreach efforts to get young students, especially those from underrepresented populations, to begin thinking about college.
The students were from the Power...
The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Eversource have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding continuing their energy-efficiency partnership with the goal of saving the university $1.8 million in energy costs annually. The non-binding agreement runs through the first half of 2020 and includes a tentative list of campus projects in which Eversource will participate as an energy advisor. This is the second such agreement setting actions and commitments for the two parties.
UMass Amherst undergraduates in the Stockbridge School of Agriculture have set up a hydroponic food farm on campus. They grow leafy greens, vegetables and fruits in raised water beds, and they aim to supply fresh produce to the campus community year-round.
A team of researchers led by computer scientist Daniel Sheldon plan to develop new analytic methods with data collected over the past 20 years – more than 200 million archived radar scans from the national weather radar network – to provide powerful new tools for tracking bird migration.
The Board of Trustees has established two new endowed professorships within the College of Natural Sciences: the Psychology of Peace and Violence Professorship and the Fergus M. Clydesdale Professorship in Food Science.
The anonymously funded Psychology of Peace and Violence Professorship will...
