For the second year in a row, the University of Massachusetts ranked among The World’s Most Innovative Universities, jumping five spots to 52nd, in the influential ranking.
The campus community is cordially invited to the Twelfth Annual Faculty Convocation on Friday, Sept. 30 at 11 a.m. in Bowker Auditorium, Stockbridge Hall.
During the ceremony, Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy will present his keynote address to faculty and staff, new and recently tenured faculty...
“Archeophonics,” a new book of poems by English professor Peter Gizzi, has been nominated for a National Book Award.
Gizzi’s is one of 10 books nominated for the poetry award, for which five finalists will be named on Oct. 13. Winners will be announced on Nov. 16.
Gizzi will...
UMass Amherst continues its climb among the top ranks of the nation’s best public universities, moving up another two positions this year to No. 27 in the 2017 Best Colleges guide released today by U.S. News & World Report.
The Princeton Review ranked UMass Amherst No. 1 for best campus food in the nation. The university was among the schools featured live on NBC’s Today Show on Aug. 30.
UMass Amherst is among the top 30 colleges and universities in the country for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning students as ranked by Campus Pride, a national support and advocacy organization.
UMass Amherst is 208th among more than 25,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education around the globe, according to the Center for World University Rankings. Nationally, UMass Amherst is 87th in the rankings, which were released July 11 by the Saudi Arabia-based organization.
UMass Amherst has received a 2016 LASPAU (Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities) University Award in recognition of “outstanding support and contribution in working with LASPAU- administered scholarship grantees.” The award was presented during the NAFSA: Association of International Educators conference in Denver on June 2.
UMass Amherst has been recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a 2015 Tree Campus USA for its commitment to effective urban forest management. The award will be accepted on April 29 as part of the campus’ Arbor Day events at the Durfee Conservatory courtyard.
Nick Bromell, professor of English at UMass Amherst who has undertaken a major new work on the thinking of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, is one of only 178 scholars in the U.S. and Canada to be named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2016.
