"The Forgotten Refugees," a new documentary about the exodus of approximately a million Jews from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century, will be shown Tuesday, March 7 at 8 p.m. in 231 Herter Hall.
In honor of International Women''s Day, author and journalist E.J. Graff will discuss "Getting Even: Why Women Don''t Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It" on Monday, March 6 at 7 p.m. at Food for Thought Books.
Cultural critic Lewis Hyde will speak on "Jefferson''s Taper: How America''s Revolutionaries Imagined our Cultural Commons" on Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Gordon Hall''s third floor conference room.
The Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band, conducted by Laura Rexroth, will perform in concert Saturday, March 4 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall.
Donald Smith, TIAA-CREF individual client service Consultant, is available on-campus to meet with employees regarding investing earnings pre-tax into a 403(b) account via payroll deduction.
Music faculty will present a concert from the Second Viennese School (music of the 20th century composers Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alexander von Zemlinsky) on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall.
The university has been granted a one-star landscape management and operations accreditation by the Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS).
Gary Glazier, manager of landscape, construction, horticulture and pest management, developed the accreditation submission and received the honor on...
The parents of slain journalist and UMass Amherst alumnus James Foley attended a screening of the Emmy-award winning HBO documentary “Jim: The James Foley Story” and afterward took questions from student as part of "The Task of Witnessing” symposium in his honor.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently set up a temporary courtroom in the Campus Center at UMass Amherst, offering the opportunity for legal studies students and area residents to see the court in action outside of its usual home at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston. Three judges heard oral...
The UMass Amherst department of anthropology and International Programs Office (IPO) and the Etxepare Institute are inaugurating the William A. Douglass Chair in Basque Cultural Studies with a symposium and public lecture on Monday, Sept. 26 in the Hadley Room, Campus Center from noon-7:30 p.m....
Banu Subramaniam, women, gender and sexuality studies, has been awarded the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book “Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity” (2014...
Evan Ray, a postdoctoral researcher in biostatistics, recently attended a workshop on forecasting outbreaks of influenza at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Ray, who attended with...
Thomas Huf, senior program manager for Facilities and Campus Services, will introduce a program on U.S.-Iran engagement sponsored by the Atlantic Council on Monday, Sept. 26 in Washington, D.C.
Called “Ties that...
