UMass President Marty Meehan today announced that the university system’s own spending on financial aid for students rose by nearly $20 million during the current academic year, increasing from $236 million to $255 million, the highest level ever.
The Center for Multicultural Advancement for Student Success (CMASS), Josephine White Eagle Cultural Center and the UMass Amherst Native American community invite all to attend the 35th annual Powwow on Saturday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Curry Hicks Cage.
AMHERST, Mass. – Contributing to urgent worldwide efforts to track and slow the spread of the Zika virus, students in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) program have developed new quantitative epidemiological models to predict some consequences of increasing Zika infections, such as microcephaly births, and the potential economic cost to society in several South American nations, particularly Brazil.
Dr. Thupten Jinpa, official translator for the Dalai Lama, will be the keynote speaker at the Five College Conference for Compassionate Leadership on Saturday, April 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Integrative Learning Center Auditorium at UMass Amherst.
As 2016 chair of the Microbial Ecology section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), Kristen DeAngelis, microbiology, recently received a $1,500 long-range planning grant to promote awareness of the role of microbes in composting organic materials. The award will fund one undergraduate from...
UMass Amherst students are using crowdfunding for support in hosting the Student Sustainability Leadership Symposium (SSLS) in the fall.
The SSLS, formerly known as the Eco-Rep symposium, is an annual conference that brings together 200 sustainability-minded students from across the Northeast for...
The Coalition for Racial Justice presents the Stand Against Racism Forum on Friday, April 8 from 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College Events Hall. This event is free and open to the public.
Communication disorders students at UMass Amherst’s School of Public Health and Health Sciences will host the fifth annual Walk and Roll for Stroke and Aphasia on Saturday, April 2 beginning with check-in at 11 a.m. in the Cape Cod Lounge of the Student Union.
Nicolette Eicholtz and Shayne Bradford, undergraduates studying arboriculture and urban forestry in the department of environmental conservation, took first place in the arboriculture skills event at the 40th annual National Collegiate Landscape Competition (NCLC) March 15-18 at Mississippi State...
