Daniel Bernard Roumain and his group, The Mission, will perform “24 Bits: Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes” in Bowker Auditorium on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Larissa Remennick of Bar-Ilan University in Israel will speak on “The Gender Perspective in Immigration Research: The Case of Former Soviet Jews in Israel and in the West” on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall.
Taikoza, a Japanese drum and dance ensemble, will fill the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall with the thundering sound of six-foot, 200-pound drums on Friday, Feb. 16. at 7:30 p.m.
The Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees will meet later this semester to consider nominations from the campus community for honorary doctoral degrees to be awarded in 2008.
Three projects proposed by faculty members from the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, College of Nursing and the College of Education have been awarded Public Service Endowment Grants (PSEG) from a special campus fund designed to boost outreach, extend the campus resources into the...
The former campus horse barn, built in 1894 on Grinnell Way and unused for years, has been rebuilt and relocated and is now part of the Stockbridge School of Agriculture’s Agricultural Learning Center.
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has bestowed a silver award on UMass Magazine for magazine publishing improvement.
Published by University Communications, the magazine was redesigned two years ago with the assistance of Landesberg Design of Pittsburgh and feedback from...
Scientists with the recently renamed Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (NE CASC), The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this week released a new study of dam operations and river flows in the four-state Connecticut River watershed that they hope will provide insights...
After 12 years with UMass Amherst and a 42-year career in higher education, Joan Hopkins, associate athletic director for student-athlete development, will retire, effective Aug. 31.
Hopkins has served numerous...
MaryAnn T. Chudzik, a retired maintainer in Residential Life, died June 8.
Born Sept. 8, 1943 in Amherst, she grew up on the family farm and graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1961.
She graduated from...
Ezra Markowitz, assistant professor of environmental conservation, has been elected president-elect of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology (SEPCP), Division 34 of the American...
