As more reports come in from countries devastated by last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Asia, the International Programs Office is urging faculty and staff to contact scholars and students in the region to determine whether they are safe or have been affected by the tragedy.
The President’s Office and other central units of the University system are moving to a less costly location in the State Street Bank office building in Boston’s financial district.
When the Tournament of Roses Parade kicks off on New Year’s Day, a familiar figure will be leading the 330-member Bands of America Honor Band: the university’s own George N. Parks, longtime director of the Minuteman Marching band.
Meeting in special session in Boston, the Board of Trustees voted Dec. 21 to create the state’s first public law school by bringing Southern New England School of Law in Dartmouth into the UMass system.
Seven years after a handful of campus units were grouped together under the banner of University Outreach, the division is reshaping itself to reflect national models for engaging external audiences, says Sharon L. Fross, vice provost for University Outreach and director of Continuing Education.
The pending $10.3 billion hostile buyout of PeopleSoft by Oracle is unlikely to affect the campus’s soon-to-be-upgraded financial and human resources systems, according to Joyce Hatch, vice chancellor for Administration and Finance.
The campus is in the first year of a 10-year, $42.7 million contract with Johnson Controls, Inc., of Milwaukee, for a major energy and water conservation project that is estimated will save the campus 25 percent of its utility costs.
A student exchange with Japan’s Kansai Gandai University and a program in ecotourism and sustainable development in Senegal were approved Dec. 16 by the Faculty Senate.
Longtime college and NFL coach Mark Michaels has named the football program's new special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach, according to head coach Mark Whipple. Michaels returns to familiar territory...
Peter Gray-Mullen, capital project manager in the Design and Construction Management division of Facilities and Campus Services, was a featured speaker at the 26th annual Tradeline Conference on College and University...
The UMass Police Department on Jan. 12 marked the promotion of sergeants Damian DeWolf and Michael Malouin to the rank of lieutenant and officer Allen Silva and acting sergeant Jeffrey Skinner to the rank of sergeant...
Steven Boutcher, assistant professor of sociology and public policy, will speak on “Status and Conformity Revisited: Corporate Law Firms and Isomorphism in Pro Bono Ties” on Monday, Feb. 2 at 12:15 p.m. in...
Professor David Hillis of the department of integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin, will present the 12th annual Sinauer Lecture on Friday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. in the S240 Integrative Learning Center. He will speak on “Applications of the Tree of Life.”
A Public Engagement Project panel titled “Public Engagement: How to Get Your Research Out There,” with speakers Provost Katherine Newman, Vice Chancellor for University Relations John Kennedy, project director Amy Schalet and Linda Tropp, director of the psychology of peace and violence program, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, Feb. 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 804-08 Campus Center.
