AMHERST, Mass. – Robert P. Finn, the first post-Taliban U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, will speak on “The New Central Asia,” on Wednesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Center for International Education (CIE) has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million grant as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project to improve access to quality education in Afghanistan.
AMHERST, Mass. – The department of nutrition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a $90,000 grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund the Nutrition Multicultural Scholarship Program, which provides $6,000 scholarships for five undergraduate students for three years of study leading to a bachelor’s of science degree in nutrition.
AMHERST, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni Ellen Ferraro and Regina Valluzzi will be honored by Mass High Tech as Women to Watch 2006.
Classics Department alumna Ellen Sassenberg, (MAT ’99) was honored with a pre-collegiate teaching award by the American Philological Association at its annual meeting in Montreal in January.
AMHERST, Mass. – Evan S. Dobelle, president and CEO of the New England Board of Higher Education, will speak on “Looming Dangers for Higher Education” on Tuesday, March 7, from 3-4:30 p.m. in 176-78 Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
AMHERST, Mass. – Two University of Massachusetts Amherst students, Lauren Brown and Katie McNamara, have been awarded scholarships from the national Order of Omega.
AMHERST, Mass. – The Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been awarded a five-year, $8.1 million grant as a subcontractor on a U.S. Agency for International Development project to improve access to quality education in Afghanistan.
Professor Carol E. Heim of the Economics Department and the Center for Public Policy and Administration, has been awarded a $40,000 David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge.
